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Deploying Sure on Hostim.dev

Hostim.dev is a managed container-hosting platform that runs Sure with a managed PostgreSQL database, managed Redis, persistent storage, and automatic HTTPS — no server to provision or maintain.

One-click template

Sure is available as a one-click template. It provisions the Rails web server, the Sidekiq background worker, PostgreSQL, and Redis for you, and generates SECRET_KEY_BASE automatically.

  1. Open the Sure template.
  2. Choose a resource plan.
  3. Click Deploy.
  4. Open the generated domain and create your first account.

A full walkthrough is in the Hostim.dev Sure guide.

Manual setup

To configure the app yourself, create an app from the ghcr.io/we-promise/sure:stable image and set the following environment variables:

Variable Value
SECRET_KEY_BASE a long random hex string (keep it stable across restarts)
DB_HOST / DB_PORT your PostgreSQL host and port
POSTGRES_DB / POSTGRES_USER / POSTGRES_PASSWORD database credentials
REDIS_URL redis://<host>:<port>/1
SELF_HOSTED true

Run the web server and a Sidekiq worker from the same image, both sharing the same SECRET_KEY_BASE. Run bin/rails db:prepare before the web server starts so migrations are applied — for example with a start command like sh -c "./bin/rails db:prepare && (bundle exec sidekiq &) && exec ./bin/rails server -b 0.0.0.0".

Mount a persistent volume at /rails/storage. Sure stores uploaded files (such as imported statements) there via Active Storage's local disk service by default; without a persistent volume they are lost when the container is replaced, while the database still references them.