We didn't plan to build a cloud. We just needed a cheaper one.
RAW started as a migration script. We were spending $7,370/month on Fly.io and Vercel to run Eulerpool, a financial data platform. In March 2026, we moved everything to Hetzner bare metal. The monthly bill dropped to $460. Then we productized the pain.
The Eulerpool Migration
Eulerpool serves millions of page views per month — equity research, financial statements, and market data for thousands of publicly traded companies. We were running on Fly.io for compute and Vercel for the frontend. It worked, but the bill told a different story:
Every pain point became a feature
The migration took three engineers four weeks. We documented every step, every script, every failure. When it was done, we looked at our notes and realized: this should be automated.
"We kept asking the same question: what if this was one command? What if
raw deploydid everything we just did in four weeks — in 90 seconds?"
SSL certificate provisioning, zero-downtime deployments, database migrations, monitoring setup, firewall configuration — every painful manual step became a feature in RAW.
Timeline
Eulerpool cloud bill hits $7,370/month. We start investigating alternatives to Fly.io and Vercel.
Full migration to Hetzner Cloud. Three engineers, four weeks, zero downtime. Monthly bill drops to $460.
RAW CLI v0.1 ships on npm. One command to provision a production server with Docker, Caddy, and monitoring.
Public launch. Import tool added — migrate from Fly.io, Railway, Render, or Vercel with one command.
Multi-server orchestration, managed databases, and team collaboration features.
The Costco of Cloud
Our model is simple: give developers the best infrastructure at the lowest possible price. No markup on compute, no egress fees, no surprises.
Small team, no VC burn, lean operations. Savings go to customers.
Cloud providers charge 3–5× the cost of bare metal. We don't.
Bandwidth is included. Serve as much traffic as you want.
Pick a server. Pay a price. No usage-based surprises.
Team
Michael Jakob
Built Eulerpool from zero to millions of monthly page views. Migrated the entire infrastructure from managed cloud to bare metal — and turned the migration playbook into RAW.
Try it yourself
One command. 90 seconds. See what your infrastructure costs on RAW.
$ npx rawhq deploy