Introduction

What is Galaxy?

Galaxy is a full-service cloud offering to host, monitor, and manage Node.js, Python, and Meteor applications. Access Monti APM, Atmosphere, and Galaxy Hosting all from one centralized dashboard. Galaxy also offers Database hosting for MongoDB, allowing you to manage both your applications and databases in one place.

Why Choose Galaxy?

By creating your account, you get access to:

- Multi-language hosting: Deploy Node.js, Python, and Meteor applications with premium hosting features like triggers and notifications, as well as advanced security measures like IP whitelisting, app protection, and much more. See Galaxy Pricing Overview.

- Organizations: Collaborate with fellow developers throughout the extensive developer ecosystem.

- Free deploy: Deploy your application quickly for free using our Free plan and MongoDB auto-configuration. Great for staging environments and early iteration with any supported technology.

- Atmosphere: Immediately get access to the community library of open source packages built and used by thousands of Meteor Developers for almost a decade.

- Database hosting: Set up, scale, and manage MongoDB databases alongside your applications with automatic backups and no data transfer fees.

- Peace of mind: Have peace of mind from having experts in application architecture supporting your deployments.

What is Atmosphere?

Atmosphere is the directory of community-built packages available for download, completely free and accessible through your Meteor Cloud account. Rather than start from scratch, the Meteor community has solved many problems for you (such as user login and data synchronization). We highly recommend you take advantage of their hard work!

To learn more about creating and publishing packages, please visit the Meteor Guide.

What is Monti APM?

Monti APM is an app performance monitoring tool built specifically for Meteor applications.
Monti APM is available for apps on the Professional Plan. For more information on Monti APM and how to get started, visit Getting Started with APM.

What is Galaxy Hosting?

Run your apps with confidence. Galaxy is easy to start, excellent to grow your app, and fully-featured to support your needs as you scale.

- Push To Deploy: Update your app directly from your Git repository.

- Auto-scaling: Customize the size and number of containers to meet your app's requirements and triggers to scale automatically.

- Simple management: Use a unified interface to manage, understand usage characteristics, and adjust settings for all your Node.js, Python, and Meteor apps.

- MongoDB Database Hosting: Easily set up, manage, and scale MongoDB databases alongside your applications.

- Notifications: Receive in your Slack or Email what is happening in real-time.

- Integrated Monti APM: Use Monti APM to optimize the performance of your production application.

- Expert support: Have answers to all your questions from engineers who understand your technology stack.

Get Started

- Check out our dedicated guides for Node.js, Python, and MongoDB deployments.

Updated on: 14/04/2025