Deploy to a server you own.

Deploy pushes to main onto your own server. Generate a GitHub Actions workflow, required secrets and one-time SSH deploy-key instructions for your chosen runtime.

Your repo, your server, no middle layer

Platform deploys are convenient until the platform's pricing, limits, or outages become your problem. Deploying straight from GitHub Actions to a box you own keeps the convenience — push to a branch, it ships — without handing the keys to anyone. It's just SSH and a few commands, which means it works the same on any host and moves with you if you ever change providers.

The workflow is the easy 90%. The other 10% — making sure the deploy actually succeeded, that a bad release can roll back, that you have a record of what shipped and who triggered it, and that the service comes back if it crashes after deploy — is the operational layer a platform used to hide. That's the part a control plane gives back to you, on your own infrastructure.