Ship your app to your own server
— safely, and from your AI coding assistant.

Why teams use NoMoreJoel

Everything you need to ship — none of the busywork

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Your AI coding assistant can ship it for you

Connect NoMoreJoel to Cursor, Claude Code, or any AI coding tool. Ask it to deploy, check on your app, or fix a problem — it just works.

Technical detail: hosted MCP server (Streamable HTTP), scoped API keys, 30+ tools.

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Security checks on every deploy

We automatically scan your code and containers for leaked passwords and known vulnerabilities before and after you ship.

Technical detail: secret scanning, image CVE/SBOM, and TLS/header probes on every route.

An AI that explains what broke

If a deploy fails or a site goes down, Joel tells you why in plain English and suggests a fix you approve.

Technical detail: automated alert triage and deploy diagnosis — gated remediations, not auto-fix.

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Your server, your bill

Apps run on a server you own — bring your own, or we can provision one for you. We never mark up compute.

Technical detail: BYO any Linux VPS via SSH, or managed auto-provision on your cloud account.

How it works

Three steps from code to a live URL

Deep dive

How NoMoreJoel actually works

For the technical details — hosting mechanics, the full feature set, MCP tools, and the exact deploy workflow.

Hosting

Bring your own server — or get one provisioned

Same control plane either way. Apps run on your VPS; we handle deploys, routes, and ops. Your invite code may preset BYO or managed hosting.

Your infrastructure

Your server. Your bill. We're the assistant.

NoMoreJoel is a hosted control plane — not a cloud provider. You bring your own server or spin one up with any provider. Workloads, data, and compute costs stay on your account. We handle the DevOps work so you don't have to babysit servers.

Platform

Everything Joel used to do — on demand

$ git push origin main
✓ clone repo on srv_vultr_nyc
✓ docker build — Dockerfile
✓ flip-over publish · new stack running
✓ health check https://api.acme.108-61-12-34.sslip.io
→ cutover complete · route healthy · TLS active

you › Deploy my FastAPI app to production

agent › explain_deploy_blockers · all clear
agent › create_application · create_route
agent › deploy_application · polling logs…
✓ deploy succeeded · get_security_scans queued
https://api.myapp.108-61-12-34.sslip.io

! deploy_failed · production · api

Joel › Health probe returned 404 on /health
Joel › Root path / returns 200 — likely wrong health path
Joel › Proposed fix: update health_spec and redeploy
→ gated remediation ready for approval

For agents

Deploy with MCP in three steps

Connect a VPS once in the dashboard. After that, Cursor, Claude Code, or any MCP client can create apps, routes, and deploys.

1. Create an agent key Integrations → Coding agents. Scoped read, write, and deploy — expires in 90 days.
2. Configure your MCP client Add https://www.nomorejoel.com/mcp/ with your Bearer token — see client-specific paths below.
3. Ask your agent “List my servers and deploy nginx to production.” The agent uses MCP tools — you answer questions in chat.

Use the same URL and Bearer token in whichever client you use. JSON shape below works for Cursor, Claude Desktop, and other mcpServers-style configs.

• Cursor — ~/.cursor/mcp.json or project .cursor/mcp.json
• Claude Code — claude mcp add (HTTP transport) or MCP settings in your project
• Claude Desktop — claude_desktop_config.json → mcpServers
• VS Code / Copilot, Windsurf, Zed, … — MCP panel or config file per your editor's docs

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nomorejoel": {
      "url": "https://www.nomorejoel.com/mcp/",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer sp_your_agent_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Prerequisite: connect your VPS in the dashboard first — agents cannot upload SSH keys in this release.

The backstory

Why NoMoreJoel?

“Who broke prod?” was always followed by “ask Joel.”

Joel was our main DevOps guy — the person you pinged when deploys broke, TLS expired, or a container mysteriously stopped at 2 a.m.

NoMoreJoel is virtual DevOps: bootstrap, Git builds, Traefik routes, health checks, logs, alerts, security scans, and Joel AI — plus a hosted MCP server so Cursor, Claude Code, and other agents can deploy without waiting on anyone.

Workflow

Git push to HTTPS — dashboard or agent

Step 0: choose your hosting path — BYO SSH or managed auto-provision — then run steps 1–5 yourself or let your coding agent handle 2–5 via MCP.