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How to put your apps, sites and databases online with Tanzahost, connect your domain, and pay only for what they use. Step by step, with real examples.
Updated 27 Oct 2026
These docs explain everything Tanzahost does today, step by step, with the dashboard's own words. Most pages follow Asha, who runs her Laravel shop duka on Tanzahost, so every step has a real example. New here? Start with the Introduction, then Your first deploy.
Get started
What Tanzahost is and how it's organised: Introduction, Your first deploy, Projects and locations, and How billing works: no plans, just the memory and processor time your apps really use, paid by your saved card. Stuck? Sali, our AI assistant, checks your projects and explains what's wrong. Working without the dashboard: the API, the command-line tool, and AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
Apps
How to deploy each kind of app: Laravel, WordPress, one-click apps like WooCommerce and Odoo, Node.js, Python, PHP and static sites. Then how every app works: its page and tabs, versions, deploying and rolling back, its settings, maintenance mode, running a command, private names, its domains, moving it to another project, storage, the settings file, variables, workers, scheduled tasks, limits and sleeping. And the tools beside it: logs, the terminal, SFTP and SSH from your own computer, metrics and alerts, the file manager, environments and previews, protection and speed at the door, and sending email from your app.
Databases
MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Valkey, each private to its project and backed up 5 days a week: start with the overview, then MySQL and MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Valkey. Connecting an app fills in its variables for you; connecting from your own computer, users and passwords, import and export and backups and restore cover the rest.
Domains
Put your own domain on your app, with SSL that renews itself: add a domain, DNS records, SSL certificates, Connect Cloudflare, and buying a domain.
Email at your own domain, like asha@duka.co.tz: turn on email and its DNS records, mailboxes and mail apps for phones, Outlook and the browser, and forwarding, aliases and auto-reply.
Account
Your wallet and how you pay: your wallet, card and top-ups, the spending cap and receipts. Keeping your account safe: login security. Working together: your team, with roles and access per project, and support tickets. And closing your account.
Errors
Saw a message you don't understand? The error pages explain the common ones, one page each, with the fix.
In this section
- OdooInstall Odoo in one click: accounts, sales, stock and invoices for a business. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- MetabaseInstall Metabase in one click: charts and reports from your data, for the whole team. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- The app catalogueEvery app you can install in one click, by category, how a version reaches the catalogue, and how to ask for an app that isn't there yet.
- Uptime KumaInstall Uptime Kuma in one click: watches your sites and shows a status page. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- GiteaInstall Gitea in one click: your own code hosting, with pull requests and issues. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- Laravel starterInstall Laravel starter in one click: a new Laravel app to build on, with its database ready. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- Become a resellerApply to resell Tanzahost under your own brand, with your own prices and your own panel. Here's what you need, how we decide, and what happens next.
- GhostInstall Ghost in one click: a blog and newsletter, with members and paid subscriptions. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- NextcloudInstall Nextcloud in one click: files, calendars and contacts for your team, on your own server. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- The Deploy buttonPut a Deploy to Tanzahost button in your project's README, so anyone can run their own copy of your public GitHub repository in a few minutes.
- UmamiInstall Umami in one click: simple, private website visits, without cookies. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- MattermostInstall Mattermost in one click: team chat with channels, threads and calls. What it makes, its admin page, first steps and updates.
- WordPress with WooCommerceInstall WordPress with WooCommerce in one click: an online shop on WordPress, with payments, stock and orders. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.
- WordPress with LearnPressInstall WordPress with LearnPress in one click: online courses on WordPress, with lessons, quizzes and students. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.
- WordPress with Tutor LMSInstall WordPress with Tutor LMS in one click: online courses on WordPress, with a course builder and quizzes. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.
- WordPress with ElementorInstall WordPress with Elementor in one click: a WordPress website you design by dragging blocks. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.
- WordPress with The Events CalendarInstall WordPress with The Events Calendar in one click: a WordPress website with an events calendar and tickets. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.
- WordPress with GiveWPInstall WordPress with GiveWP in one click: donations and fundraising forms on WordPress. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.
- WordPress with bbPressInstall WordPress with bbPress in one click: a discussion forum on WordPress. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.
- WordPressInstall WordPress in one click: a website or blog, with thousands of themes and plugins. What it makes, its admin page and first steps.