From scratch
- Free
- Days of docs and trial-and-error
- No backups, no host manager, no capacity planning
Brain Stack · v1.0.1
Your business tools. Your server. One payment.
A one-time setup kit that provisions an Oracle Cloud server and installs the self-hosted apps you choose — n8n, Ghost, Chatwoot, listmonk, NocoDB, Uptime Kuma and ten more — on your own domain with HTTPS. Sized for Oracle's Always Free tier.
$47 $97 Launch price through December 31, 2026. Applied automatically at checkout — nothing to type.
One-time purchase · Instant download · 12 months of updates, yours to keep · 14-day deployment guarantee · US billing addresses only
Runs in your own Oracle Cloud account. Any cloud charges are yours; Oracle controls its free tier. Read the disclosures. · Secure checkout by Stripe. No account needed.
- Top layer Your apps Pick from 16 apps: n8n, Ghost, Chatwoot, listmonk, NocoDB, Uptime Kuma and more.
- Middle layer Shared infrastructure Traefik with automatic HTTPS, PostgreSQL + pgvector, the host manager and restic backups.
- Base layer Your Oracle Cloud server An Ampere A1 instance in your own account, provisioned by Terraform and sized for the Always Free tier.
Launch price through December 31, 2026. Applied automatically at checkout — nothing to type.
See what's insideOne-time purchase · Instant download · 12 months of updates, yours to keep · 14-day deployment guarantee · US billing addresses only
Runs in your own Oracle Cloud account. Any cloud charges are yours; Oracle controls its free tier. Read the disclosures. · Secure checkout by Stripe. No account needed.
Proof
One deploy, start to finish.
Download, run the configurator, apply Terraform, run the installer — and an app is live on your own subdomain with a valid certificate.
“I built Brain Stack because I run these apps for Mock Brains on an Oracle A1 instance. The scripts in the kit are the ones I use.”
- v1.0.1 · updated October 2026
- 16 apps · 3 infrastructure components
- Every image pinned by digest
- Apps start locked to your IP range
What it replaces
Stop renting what you can run.
Most of these apps replace a subscription you already pay for. A solo operator replacing half of them typically clears $100–$200 a month in list prices.
| You run | Instead of | Typical entry price |
|---|---|---|
| n8n | Zapier, Make | from about $20/mo |
| Postiz | Buffer, Hootsuite | from about $30/mo for 5 channels |
| listmonk | Mailchimp, Kit | from about $20/mo, rising with list size |
| Chatwoot | Intercom, Crisp | from about $29/seat/mo |
| Ghost | Ghost(Pro), Substack | from about $9/mo, or 10% of paid subscriptions |
| Docmost | Notion, Confluence | from about $10/seat/mo |
| NocoDB | Airtable | from about $20/seat/mo |
| Uptime Kuma | UptimeRobot, Better Stack | from about $7/mo |
| Umami | Plausible, Fathom | from about $9/mo |
| Shlink | Bitly | from about $8/mo |
| Easy!Appointments | Calendly | from about $10/seat/mo |
| Stirling PDF | Adobe Acrobat, Smallpdf | from about $9/mo |
| Hermes Agent | per-seat AI assistant plans | you pay usage to your own model provider |
Three ways to get here
Managed app hosting
- A monthly fee per app
- Someone else's server and limits
- Easy, until you want to leave
Brain Stack
- One payment
- Your Oracle account, your domain, your data
- Scripted provisioning, install, backups and management
What's in the kit
A ZIP you run from your own computer. No Git, no GitHub account, no cloning. Extract it, open START-HERE.html, follow the guide for Windows, macOS or Linux.
Terraform configuration
Provisions the Oracle Cloud A1 instance, networking and storage, with the 12 GB and 24 GB profiles built in.
Browser configurator
Runs locally. Pick apps, enter your domain and administrator IP range; it estimates RAM against your profile and generates your deployment config.
Installer
Sets up Docker, Traefik and automatic HTTPS, then installs your selected apps from their official upstream images, pinned by digest.
Host manager
An optional private web dashboard, terminal UI and JSON CLI for starting, stopping, updating and backing up apps — reachable over SSH or Tailscale even while Traefik is down.
Backup tooling
restic-based backups with a systemd timer, plus a restore guide and drill. Running them is on you; the tooling is included.
Reference docs
Seventeen guides: prerequisites, Oracle account setup, DNS, Tailscale for private apps, post-deployment hardening, backup and restore, the billing warning.
Catalog
A catalog of 16 apps, plus the infrastructure to run them
Choose what to deploy. Each app is a separate open-source or source-available project, installed from its official upstream source onto your server. Mock Brains does not host these applications.
- Automation & AI
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- n8n — workflow automation (Sustainable Use License)
- Hermes Agent — AI agent + dashboard by Nous Research, bring your own model API key (MIT)
- Communication & Marketing
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- Postiz — social scheduling incl. Temporal stack (AGPL-3.0)
- listmonk — newsletters (AGPL-3.0)
- Chatwoot — support inbox + live chat (MIT, Community Edition)
- Publishing & Content
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- Ghost — publishing + newsletters (MIT)
- Docmost — team wiki (AGPL-3.0 core)
- Miniflux — RSS feeds and searchable article API (Apache-2.0)
- Monitoring & Analytics
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- Uptime Kuma — uptime monitoring (MIT)
- Umami — web analytics (MIT)
- Beszel — server monitoring + alerts (MIT)
- Dozzle — live container logs (MIT)
- Productivity & Tools
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- NocoDB — smart-spreadsheet database (Sustainable Use License)
- Shlink — URL shortener (MIT)
- Stirling PDF — PDF toolbox (MIT + proprietary dirs)
- Easy!Appointments — appointment booking (GPL-3.0)
- Infrastructure (included automatically)
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- Traefik — reverse proxy + automatic HTTPS (MIT, required)
- PostgreSQL + pgvector — shared database (PostgreSQL License)
- Reference API — PostgREST data access (MIT)
Pick a preset, or build your own
Estimated RAM comes from the configurator's catalog; Traefik, the shared PostgreSQL and the Reference API (about 1.25 GB) are included in every row. The configurator warns before you provision anything that will not fit your profile.
| Preset | Apps | Estimated RAM | Profile | Load into the estimator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ops starter | n8n, Hermes Agent, Uptime Kuma, Umami, NocoDB | about 3.5 GB | Free tier (12 GB) | |
| Publisher | Ghost, listmonk, Shlink, Umami, Uptime Kuma | about 3.2 GB | Free tier (12 GB) | |
| Client desk | Chatwoot, Easy!Appointments, n8n, Docmost, Uptime Kuma | about 4.9 GB | Free tier (12 GB) | |
| Everything but Postiz | 15 apps + infrastructure | about 8.8 GB | Free tier (12 GB), little headroom | |
| Full catalog | All 16 apps; Postiz brings Temporal and Elasticsearch | about 13.2 GB | Pay-as-you-go profile (24 GB) only |
Build your own
Toggle apps to see the estimated RAM against the Oracle profiles. Infrastructure is always included.
GB
12 GB 24 GB
Fits the free tier (12 GB)
- Infrastructure (always on) Traefik + PostgreSQL + pgvector + Reference API · 1.22 GB
- apps selected —
License types are informational and may change. The Sustainable Use License (n8n, NocoDB) permits internal business use and restricts hosting these apps as a service for others. AGPL-3.0 apps require sharing source code if you modify and provide network access. Full license notes, including the supporting containers, are in the disclosures below.
Deployment
How it works
From download to a running app in four steps.
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Create an Oracle Cloud account
Free; a card is required for identity. Set a $1 budget alert first — the docs show where. Oracle controls its free tier and can change it.
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Run the configurator in your browser
Choose apps, enter your domain and administrator IP range. It estimates RAM against your profile and warns before you provision anything.
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Apply Terraform
Provisions the A1 instance in your home region. Capacity varies by region; the guarantee covers it.
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Run the installer over SSH
Traefik issues certificates and Uptime Kuma comes up at uptime.yourdomain.com. Add the rest of your apps from the host manager.
Fit
Who it's for
- Solo founders and small teams paying for five or more SaaS tools
- Consultants and operators who want their own automation and support stack
- Anyone who wants their data on a server they control
- People comfortable in a terminal and able to add a DNS record
- You want managed hosting or a support SLA
- You need Postiz plus everything else on the free profile
- You will not set a budget alert or read a log file
Pricing
One payment. Yours to keep.
$47 $97
Launch price through December 31, 2026. Applied automatically at checkout — nothing to type.
For your own servers and your own business
- All 16 apps and the infrastructure components
- Unlimited servers in cloud accounts you own
- 12 months of updates — keep the last version forever
- Host manager, backup tooling and all reference docs
- 14-day deployment guarantee
Your estimate
Get Brain Stack — $47Secure checkout by Stripe. No account needed.
Next
After you buy
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Instant download
Stripe sends you straight to your download. We email a link so you can download again later, and any update inside your 12 months.
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Open START-HERE.html
Extract the ZIP and double-click the guide. It walks Windows, macOS and Linux through prerequisites, Oracle setup and DNS.
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First app in your first session
The guide's first goal is Uptime Kuma on your domain with HTTPS. Add apps once that works.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask before they run their own stack
What exactly am I buying?
A ZIP (v1.0.1) with setup scripts written by Mock Brains: Terraform for the Oracle instance, a browser configurator, Docker Compose definitions, the installer, a host manager, backup tooling and seventeen reference docs. The apps themselves — n8n, Ghost, Uptime Kuma and the rest — are separate open-source and source-available projects. The installer downloads them from their official sources onto your server, under their own licenses.
Do I need technical experience?
You should be comfortable in a terminal: running commands, connecting over SSH, adding DNS records. The scripts do the heavy lifting; when something goes wrong you will be reading logs. If that sounds fine, you are the right buyer.
Is deployment really free?
On a Free-only Oracle account you get 2 OCPUs and 12 GB (Oracle, October 2026); pay-as-you-go accounts have reported 4 OCPUs and 24 GB at no charge. The kit's 12 GB profile is the default. Set a $1 budget alert before you deploy and check Cost Analysis after 48 hours. Oracle controls its terms; we cannot guarantee any deployment stays free, and cloud charges are yours.
Can I run everything at once?
Not on the free profile. The configurator estimates RAM for your selection and warns when it will not fit. Postiz alone needs about 4.5 GB because it ships Temporal and Elasticsearch. The presets above fit the 12 GB profile; everything except Postiz is about 9 GB; the full catalog needs the 24 GB pay-as-you-go profile.
What is the guarantee?
Fourteen days. If the scripts cannot complete your deployment, or your region has no Always Free A1 capacity, email support@mockbrains.com with your order number and the logs or the region you tried, and you get a full refund to the original payment method. It does not cover Oracle charges, third-party services, or changing your mind.
What support do you provide?
Best-effort email support for the setup scripts at support@mockbrains.com, and updates for 12 months; you keep the last version forever. The third-party apps have their own documentation and communities — we do not support them, Oracle Cloud account issues, or general infrastructure troubleshooting.
What happens after I pay?
Stripe sends you straight to your download and we email a re-download link. Extract the ZIP, open START-HERE.html, and follow the guide for Windows, macOS or Linux. No Git or GitHub account is required.
What about backups?
The kit includes restic-based backup tooling with a systemd timer, a restore guide and a restore drill. Running and testing backups is your responsibility; we cannot recover data you did not back up.
Why Oracle Cloud, and can I use another provider?
Oracle's Always Free tier currently includes Arm compute that can run a stack like this with no instance cost. The trade-off is a less familiar console and regional capacity limits. The Terraform and installer target Oracle's Ampere A1 instances; adapting the kit to AWS, GCP, Hetzner or DigitalOcean is outside what the product supports.
Disclosures
Important disclosures
Read these before purchasing. They are the same obligations you accept at checkout.
You are buying setup scripts only
The Mock Brains Brain Stack package contains the Terraform configurations, configurator, installer, host manager, backup tooling and documentation created by Mock Brains. The third-party applications are separate projects with their own licenses, downloaded and installed from their official upstream sources onto your server during deployment. Mock Brains does not sell, distribute, license, host, or provide support for those applications, and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Oracle Corporation or any of the application projects. Product names are used only to describe compatibility.
Third-party applications have their own licenses
Each application has its own license terms: permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD), copyleft (AGPL, GPL, LGPL), and source-available (Sustainable Use License, SSPL / Elastic License 2.0). Supporting containers installed alongside the apps carry their own licenses: GPL-2.0 (MySQL, MariaDB), GPL-2.0 / LGPL-2.1 (HAProxy), BSD-3-Clause (Redis), BSD-2-Clause (nginx), and SSPL / Elastic License 2.0 (Elasticsearch, used by Postiz). Some licenses restrict commercial use or hosting for others, or require source disclosure if you modify and distribute the software. You are responsible for reviewing and complying with each application's license.
Cloud billing and Oracle Free Tier terms are your responsibility
You are solely responsible for all Oracle Cloud, domain registration, DNS, email relay, LLM API and other third-party charges. Oracle's documentation lists 2 OCPUs / 12 GB for Always Free tenancies (October 2026) and pay-as-you-go tenancies have been reported at 4 OCPUs / 24 GB; Oracle may change, limit, or discontinue Free Tier offerings at any time, provides no SLA or support for Always Free resources, may reclaim idle instances, and does not guarantee capacity in any region. Service limits in Oracle's console show what you may create, not what is free. Mock Brains makes no guarantee that any deployment is or will remain free, and resource estimates in this product are for planning only. Set a budget alert and monitor your billing dashboard, especially during your first deployment.
This is not managed hosting, and there are no uptime, performance or savings guarantees
The Brain Stack helps you set up self-hosted infrastructure on your own cloud account. Ongoing maintenance, updates, security patches, credential management, backups, monitoring and troubleshooting are your responsibility. We cannot and do not guarantee server uptime, application availability, performance, security, or any specific cost savings. Results depend on your configuration, usage, and factors outside our control.
Oracle, Java, MySQL, and NetSuite are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. Other product names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. Mock Brains is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Oracle Corporation or any third-party application vendor.
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