BeardPowered runs on a single Contabo VPS in Germany -- managed by PM2, proxied by nginx, stored in SQLite, and served at *.beard.energy subdomains via Cloudflare DNS. No Kubernetes. No microservices. No DevOps team. One operator, one server, 28 live apps.
Every BeardPowered app runs on the same proven stack. No Docker containers to manage. No Kubernetes clusters to debug. No cloud database bills. Just Node.js, nginx, PM2, and SQLite -- running on a VPS you can SSH into from your phone.
The entire BeardPowered platform is deployed and maintained from an iPhone using BeardPowered Terminal. No laptop, no desktop, no CI/CD pipeline. Write a file to the VPS, restart the PM2 process, verify it came back healthy.
28 BeardPowered apps, each with its own nginx config, its own PM2 process, its own SQLite database, and its own subdomain at *.beard.energy. The entire fleet is managed from BeardPowered Terminal on an iPhone.
BeardPowered operates as a node in a sovereign compute mesh. The Beard node (Wizard, fingerprint 60277ae386b6a6f9) and the Dragon node (RTX 5090, fingerprint f864f89e4362f599) have achieved cross-iron P2P at AA GREEN status.
This means BeardPowered can submit inference jobs to Kenn's RTX 5090 remotely -- without cloud API quotas, without third-party rate limits, without anything leaving the sovereign mesh. Local inference across two machines owned by two operators.
Every node-to-node message is signed with the node's secp256k1 private key and verified before acceptance. That's the same signing architecture behind Depot -- cryptographic proof at the infrastructure level.
BeardPowered deploys on your VPS -- the same stack, the same architecture, configured for your shop. One time. No ongoing dependency on ours.