When you do need a server.
A Content API, web and Git hosting in Germany, and connectors that take your content to other platforms, with unlimited editors.
Cloud isn't live yet, and it's optional: elek.io Core and Desktop work without it. Get updates by following us on Bluesky opens in a new tab.
How Cloud will work
One Release, published once and read from anywhere.
elek.io Desktop will publish a Release to elek.io Cloud, Cloud will serve it to your apps and to pages rendered on request, and it will host the Git repository your Project syncs to. All three are in development.
What Cloud will do
One Release will update your website, your apps and the platforms you publish to.
elek.io Desktop will publish the Release, and elek.io Cloud will take it to each of them, so nobody updates them one by one.
This is where Cloud is headed, and it may start with part of it. With another Git host, a webhook starts the build there.
Optional, completely
Everything Cloud will do, you can do without it.
| Topic | Without Cloud | With Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Sync | Without Cloud GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, your own server, or only your computer | With Cloud Git hosting will be included, with nothing to set up |
| Website | Without Cloud Any static host, such as web space, object storage or GitHub Pages, built in your CI with elek.io Core | With Cloud Will be built on every Release, behind a CDN, on your domain |
| Content API | Without Cloud The JSON that elek export writes, served as static files, or your own API built on elek.io Core | With Cloud Will serve every Release on request |
| Connectors | Without Cloud Your own, written on elek.io Core | With Cloud Will be ready-made, sending content out in one direction |
| Editors | Without Cloud As many as you like | With Cloud As many as you like |
| Where it runs | Without Cloud Wherever you choose | With Cloud In Germany |
elek.io Cloud will be run by the people who build elek.io Desktop and elek.io Core. It will save you running these parts yourself, and it will fund further development of our products.
Questions
Before it launches.
What agencies and developers ask first.
When does elek.io Cloud launch?
There is no date yet, and no order in which its parts arrive. elek.io Core works without Cloud today, and elek.io Desktop will too.
Where will my content be stored?
In Germany: every Release you publish, every Git repository Cloud hosts and every backup. A CDN will keep copies of your website's public files near your visitors.
What will it cost?
elek.io Core is free. elek.io Desktop will be free too. elek.io Cloud will come with unlimited editors. Its prices aren't set yet.
Will there be a dashboard?
No. You will reach Cloud from elek.io Desktop, and that is where you will manage your organization, its teams and its Projects. There will be no web app to learn.
Can I run my own Content API?
Yes. Serve the JSON that elek export writes as static files, or build your own API on elek.io Core's TypeScript API. Core's local API binds to your own machine and is meant for development rather than for the internet.
Which platforms will the connectors reach?
Real estate and car portals, and more after them. Which ones come first is not decided yet. A connector will only send content out, so elek.io Desktop will stay the one place where it is edited.
What doesn't work yet?
None of elek.io Cloud can be used yet. Publishing a Release, reading Entries and Assets, web hosting, Git hosting, connectors and reaching Cloud from elek.io Desktop are designed or planned, not built. elek.io Core is in Alpha and works without Cloud today.
elek.io is in development.
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