The all-in-one home server platform.

An all-in-one home server platform. It sets up your ZFS storage, creates shares the whole house can reach, runs apps like Emby and Jellyfin, and hosts real virtual machines and Linux containers, all from one app. Bitsmith installs as a native Linux service on anything from a small board to a full server.

Yes, it's a core part of Bitsmith. Create KVM virtual machines from a cloud image, an uploaded qcow2 disk, or an installer ISO, configure them with cloud-init, pass through USB devices, clone them, and open a console in your browser. For lighter workloads there are LXC containers: fast, isolated Linux boxes you can clone and freeze. Both run on ARM as well as x86, and both are covered by backups. The one gap today is GPU passthrough. USB passthrough works, GPU doesn't yet.

Proxmox is a bare-metal hypervisor with no storage, sharing, or app layer of its own. Bitsmith gives you VMs and LXC containers like Proxmox does, plus ZFS storage, SMB shares, one-click apps, and scheduled backups, in one interface aimed at a home rather than a data center. It also runs on ARM and installs on top of your existing Ubuntu instead of taking over the whole machine. If you want a pure hypervisor on server-grade x86, Proxmox is the deeper tool. If you want storage and virtualization in one app, that's Bitsmith.

A lifetime license is $99 per server right now. The full price is $199. You're buying in early.

Refund it yourself from your dashboard within 30 days of purchase and you get the full $99 back. No questions, no forms, no emails. We'd rather have customers who want to use Bitsmith.

Anything that runs Ubuntu 22.04+ on amd64 or arm64. A Raspberry Pi works too, running Ubuntu for ARM (not Raspberry Pi OS). A Pi 4 handles light use; a mini PC with 16 GB RAM comfortably runs the whole stack. Drives can be SATA, USB, or NVMe.

A backup lives on the thing it protects. Open a folder, an app, a VM, or a container and choose Back up: pick a destination (the system drive, a storage space, or a connected share on another machine), run it once or on a schedule, and say how many versions to keep. The Backups page lists every schedule and version by source, and a version restores into a folder you choose or comes back as a new VM, container, or app. Files stay in standard Linux filesystems so you can also use rsync, Borg, or Restic alongside if you prefer.

Your files live on your drives in standard Linux filesystems (ext4 or ZFS). Your apps are standard Linux containers running ordinary Debian packages, and Docker apps keep their standard compose files. If we disappeared tomorrow, the only thing that would stop is the update mechanism: your server, your files, your apps, and your VMs keep running exactly as they do, and you'd manage them with the underlying Linux tools instead of through us. Nothing is locked into our format.