Data Centerin your closet
Compute and store data for your business and family locally, stay in control and never lose sleep. We give you a hypervisor on a stick, a VM-first system distribution, an intuitive web interface and a local-first Ai assistant fine-tuned to ensure you never get stuck on a task.
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Geeks do
gx.do
Build virtual datacenters for your family and business on the hardware you own quickly and easily. Expand resources as needed. Your compute. Your storage. Your data. Get your bills under control.
- hypervisor
- USB stick to ramdisk
- system distribution
- virtualised in a hardware VM
- Ai copilot
- deployed and run locally
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Small teams
Build great products
gx.do is for self-sufficient founders, bootstrappers, shoestringers, first timers and repeat entrepreneurs alike, self-hosters, fullmeta programmists, the 5% that do 95% of the work - hackers out to build successful businesses not flashy resumes.
Of unicorns
Eye-watering bills and overcomplicated solutions. With unicorn ambitions you'll reach for unicorn tools that solve unicorn problems and likely end up in a unicorn charade.
Web scale
- Path less traveled, wild and mostly unique to each company. Unhealthy mix of engineering, art and panic.
8 funding rounds and raising
- Taming and riding unicorns isn't cheap. Get those eyeballs - monetise later. Always be raising.
7K+ engineers and hiring
- Much money, fast growth, everything leaks. Throw more engineers to patch those holes. Communication and management dominate.
Always be fixing
- Adopt microservices to solve mononliths, adopt docker to solve microservices, adopt kubernetes to solve docker.
Of gnus
Your business idea need not be earth-shattering or ambitious. As long as it engages you and solves somebody's problem go ahead and build it, launch it, charge for it. gx.do and aim to earn a comfortable living.
Keep it simple - keep it in your head
- With few people hacking there's only so much grey matter to go around. Optimise for brain, time and talent you actually have. What's good for Google is hardly suitable for you.
Data center in your closet
- Add RAM, compute, storage as needed, hypervise then virtualize. It's a solved problem and easier than you think. Your hardware, your software, your control plane, your data. Upgrade's as trivial as replacing a USB stick.
Always be charging
- Put a price on it. Find customers. Have them pay. It need not be complicated. Cloud is largely a costly scam - never cry over an unexpected bill ever again.
Invent, build, launch, repeat
- Keep the distance between idea and shipping an MVP short. Whether you build for investors or customers steps remain similar, can be learnt, repeated and improved upon. gx.do will help you along.
Hardware's cheap. Fast internet is widespread and affordable. We make managing it all in your closet straightforward and fun.
Families
Band together
Put a second-hand server in your closet or a fanless box under your desk. No cloud will give you a better deal relative to resources you get, ever. Got your local data center going? Build more for your extended family - operate from the same web portal.
Down with the Cloud
How many cloud sevices can be replaced by better alternatives run locally?
Family Storage
Much as you need. Abundant. Redundant. Affordable.
Everyone Connected
Every device, every part of your system is networked via Wireguard, Tailscale or ZeroTier.
Local First
Run inference locally. Any model you want. Faster, cheaper, privacy preserving.
Head in the Clouds
Ever asked yourself why your ISP won't give you a stable IP address? It's what makes cloud scam possible.
Data Center
On a stick
gx.do builds on the shoulders of giants like SmartOS, Illumos and Open Solaris before them. Deliberately designed to run the world's smallest data centers: that second hand Dell R720 in your closet or a fanless box under your desk. You get abundant resources you could never afford in the cloud and unparalleled control.
Hypervisor
gx.do is a live OS on a USB thumbdrive. Plug in, boot up, start shipping. Time to upgrade? Plug USB stick with a new image, boot up, keep running - keep shipping.
No env like local env
- Proven cloud techniques remain available, but many overcomplicated ones can be thrown out. You, your family, your business are the only tenants - life becomes simpler. Build from first principles or grab off the shelf. Choice is yours.
ZFS storage pool
- Hypervisor runs entirely in RAM so your entire drive space becomes a resilient ZFS pool: secure, easily resizable, isolated for each virtualized guest. High perf, flexibility, integrity, advanced caching, copy-on-write, snapshots and more.
Browse all the things
- You get an intuitive web interface for all your virtualisation and networking needs. See your entire VM fleet at a glance. Drill in, deploy, upgrade, snapshot, backup, manage keys, debug, etc - pointy-clicky tools are great. Pull up a console right in your browser.
Control
- In the beginning you want to go fast - take your app or service off the ground as quickly as you can. As time passes, features accrete, system sprawls and grows in complexity, you realise all you want is control. We give you both. No need to reverse engineer or hope your cloud provider was thouhtful enough to provide an escape hatch.
System Distribution
Codename websd is a virtual-first distribution - our attempt at a perfect match for our hypervisor and serving web projects. Trimmed of bloat that doesn't belong in a VM, easy to customize and program, tightly integrated with hypervisor host for great observability and control.
Zones, containers, VMs
- Else you can choose from highly performant native zones, litewheight LX containers that emulate Linux syscalls, hardware VMs that run Linux, BSD, Windows at full speed, or Docker.
Security in depth
- We lean heavily on overlay networks for control plane. Everything is networked via Wireguard, Tailscale or ZeroTier, has a stable name and address. SSH, rsync, Syncthing, remote REPLs, etc are easy to rearch but hidden from the outside world.
Package manager to rule them all
- Built on top of Nix store, inspired by the GNU Guix system with access to its packages and substitutes. Transactional, reproducible, composable and easy to script.
WWW ready
- We expect many VMs will serve web-projects in one way or other, so they come well prepared. E.g. a VM pre-configured with CloudFlare tunnel and Nginx to proxy and load-balance to any VM, external hypervisor or cloud instance gets deployed on first boot.
- Ai
Your friendly local admin
- Wouldn't it be nice to have a friendly sysadmin ready to answer any question? Why yes, yes it would! You get one available 24/7 in your terminal and web portal. Posix cli and utils, widely used APIs, software and more.
Ai will see pervasive use. Run inference locally, fine-tune for specific tasks. Get em under control early. Your weights - your model. gx.do is the system for your tinybox when it comes out.
Ai
The equalizer
Our Ai in a box has been fine-tuned to drive both the hypervisor and any system distribution you deploy. As long as you're comfortable with basic fundamentals you can prompt Ai to take care of command line and configuration minutae. The get tuned version has been trained to contextualize your deployments and runtime environment.
Provision with Ai
Once the hypervisor is up you can pointy-click your way to the desired state right in the browser. Outside of the pre-deployed VMs that gx.do itself requires, the zones or HVMs you deploy will be bare. Luckily, instances are defined in JSON files and their respective images - our System Distribution, native zones or HVMs - come with support for cloud-init and Ansible.
Our Ai can absolutely help you customize these. No need to learn the nitty-gritty of either - just grasp the basics.
Kept in a Box
Your box! All inference is done right on your hardware in a separate VM. gx.do comes with a few powerful LLMs in a file courtesy of Cosmopolitan Libc and llama.cpp - the two projects we're great fans of.
The get tuned subscription will give you access to the LLMs trained to contextualize your deployments and runtime environment.
Finally, if your hardware is not up to task you can opt in to use our machinery for inference. This is strictly opt-in and will incur extra charges.
Pricing
Starts at $0
It's open-source. Download the image. Flash. Boot. Enjoy. But please consider chipping in: order a gx.do branded USB key pre-flashed with the most recent hypervisor and support our work.
chip in
Live USB with gx.do logo
Every open-source feature
Cool points for being 1st
get tuned
Everything in "chip in"
Ai trained to contextualize your setup
Opt-in cloud inference (extra charges apply)
Opt-in incremental VM backups to the cloud (storage charges apply)
get hyped
Everything in "chip in"
Everything in "tuned in"
Hyper
Hardware
Our software will run on just about anything, but if we are to succeed in our mission there needs to be a plug-n-forget solution. We've been working hard to give families and SMEs a few options.
Hyper Cube wip
Our own in-house design: a fanless box purposely built for virtualisation and lite AI inference - sufficient for a family and a small business. Drop it under your desk or in the closet, plug in, boot up and go.
Work in progress
- Plain fanless design
- 2 x NVMe M.2 slots
- 8+ CPU cores
- 16+ GiB RAM
From
$449USD
ConfigureEnterprise servers coming soon
gx.do reached a preliminary agreement with the Europe's leading supplier of refirbished IT infrastructure and hardware. Rack and tower servers freshly pulled from clusters in banks and large enterprises. These maybe a few generations behind but are dirt cheap yet insanely performant and reliable.
Comming soon
- gx.do exclusive deals and discounts
- Custom-built configurations
- CPU cores and RAM on tap
- Performant, reliable and cheap SSD storage
Hyper Cube is our answer to your inevitable hardware question. Plain, simple, quiet, affordable yet performant enough to become the heart and brain of your digital life at home and at work.
Features
Technically speaking
For the curious and more technically inclined, here's what you get with gx.do. We stand on the shoulders of some mighty fine giants.
- SVR4 level 1 hypervisor
- Superset of SmartOS based on Illumos and OpenSolaris. It is a live os that boots directly into RAM. Upgrades are trivial - reboot from a new USB thumbdrive. Allocate all your drives to VM hosting.
- ZFS
- Instant VM snapshots and incremental backups. Disk replication. And so much more - ZFS is magical.
- OS-level "native" virtualisation
- Light weight zones based on Solaris containers. LX zones with Linux system call emulation.
- Hardware virtualisation
- Full hardware virtualisation with bhyve and kvm. We recommend bhyve which performs better. Docker container deployments.
- GPU passthrough
- More generally PCI passthrough. Some work remains to be done.
- Mobile-friendly web portal
- Pointy-clicky interface to all things virtualisation, replication, backups and monitoring. Browser based console to any VM. Interface for migration, snapshotting, replication and backups.
- Advanced networking
- Based on Crossbow of Solaris. Integrated DNS and address management. Optional OPNsense in a VM. Each container has a full IP stack and is a full peer on the network.
- Ovelay control plane
- Every zone and VM is connected courtesy of WireGuard. Optionally Tailscale or ZeroTier.
- REST API
- Program against the same API that the web-portal uses.
- Multiple nodes
- Link dependent hypervisors into a multi-node setup - manage multiple data centers from the same web interface.
- Ready for your next web project
- Easy tunnels to CloudFlare for CDN, load-balancing, DDOS protection and more. Pre-configured Nginx that proxies to your VMs.
Stay tuned
Going β when?
Small team. Hard at work. We are going as fast as we can but also dog-fooding our own creation. We think you're going to love it and can't wait to see what gx.do can do for you!