Your team chat.
Your data. Your rules.
Tired of handing your team's conversations to Discord or Slack? Zulip is the open-source alternative that lives entirely on your own RocketVPS server. No data harvesting, no ads, no lock-in — every message, file, and member stays private and fully under your control.
The clarity Discord can't give you
Discord and Slack pile everything into one endless stream — important messages get buried in the noise. Zulip organizes every conversation by topic within a channel, so you follow exactly what matters, catch up in minutes, and pick up a discussion days later with full context intact.
- Every message lives under a clear topic — nothing gets buried
- Reply to async conversations without losing the context
- Powerful full-text search across your entire message history
# engineering › deploy pipeline
12 messages
# product › q3 roadmap
8 messages
# design › new brand kit
5 messages
Your data never leaves your server
With Discord and Slack, your team's conversations live on someone else's servers — mined for data, capped behind paywalls, and gone if your account is closed. Zulip is 100% open-source and runs entirely on your own RocketVPS instance, so your messages, files, and members stay private, unlimited, and fully yours.
- Self-hosted on your own VM — no third party can read your data
- Zero ads, zero tracking, and no message-history paywalls
- Unlimited users, guest access, and fine-grained permissions
- Managed updates, daily backups, and free SSL handled for you
We configure everything. You just chat.
Order a plan and we provision a fresh Debian server, install Zulip, wire up your domain, and hand you a fully working workspace — usually in under 15 minutes.
Zero-touch deployment
We install and configure Zulip on a fresh server the moment you order. No SSH, no YAML, no manuals required.
SSL — auto-issued & renewed
A Let's Encrypt certificate is provisioned and attached to your domain on first boot, renewed automatically before it expires.
SMTP email hosting
Outbound email (invites, notifications, password resets) is routed through a reliable relay so your messages actually land in inboxes.
DDoS protection
All RocketVPS nodes sit behind volumetric DDoS mitigation. Your workspace stays online even under attack.
Managed updates
Minor and patch releases are applied automatically on a weekly schedule. Major upgrades are reviewed before rollout.
Admin account ready
Your admin credentials are emailed the moment the server is live. Log in, invite your team, and start chatting.
Choose your plan
All plans include managed setup, automatic updates, free SSL, and DDoS protection.
Zulip Starter
- 2 vCores
- 4 GB RAM
- 40 GB NVMe Storage
- Closed team · 10–20 users
- DDoS Protection
- Free SSL Certificate
- Managed Updates
- Daily Backups
Zulip Pro
- 4 vCores
- 8 GB RAM
- 80 GB NVMe Storage
- Scale to ~100 users
- DDoS Protection
- Free SSL Certificate
- Managed Updates
- Daily Backups
Zulip Ultra
- 6 vCores
- 16 GB RAM
- 120 GB NVMe Storage
- Scale to ~500 users
- DDoS Protection
- Free SSL Certificate
- Managed Updates
- Daily Backups