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birdhost
Managed Tailscale VPN alternative — flat rate, not per user
Tailscale charges $8-$18/user/month. birdhost: from €34.90/month — all users included. Managed hosting for NetBird, the open-source WireGuard mesh VPN. Your own dedicated instance, deployed in 5 minutes. SSO, access policies, posture checks, DNS routing, audit events, reverse proxy with L4 support — expose services via custom domains, TLS, TCP/UDP. 8 regions. ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type II certified data centers. 24/7 monitoring, updates, backups. 7-day free trial.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Timo, founder of merkaio. We run managed infrastructure for businesses worldwide.
Here's the problem we kept seeing: NetBird is an incredible open-source WireGuard mesh VPN. But running it in production means managing servers, updates, monitoring, certificates, backups. Every client we onboarded was the same story - great software, painful ops.
So we built birdhost. Sign up at portal.merkaio.com, pick your region, hit deploy - your own dedicated NetBird instance is live in under 5 minutes. Fully managed.
Why not just use Tailscale?
→ Tailscale charges per user. 50 users on Tailscale Business = $900/month. 50 users on birdhost = €34.90/month. No per-user fees - your bill doesn't grow with your headcount.
→ Tailscale is shared cloud with a proprietary control plane. birdhost gives you your own dedicated instance - your data, your infrastructure.
→ NetBird is 100% open source. No vendor lock-in. You can always take your config and self-host (and we provide everything to you if you decide to do so)
What you get:
- Dedicated NetBird instance (not multi-tenant)
- 8 regions worldwide, ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type II certified data centers
- SSO, access policies, posture checks, reverse proxy with L4 support
- 24/7 monitoring, automatic updates, security patches
- 7-day free trial
We're not affiliated with NetBird - we're an independent managed hosting provider. All credit for the incredible open-source software goes to the NetBird team (https://netbird.io/). 🙏
Would love your feedback - what would make you switch from your current VPN?
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About birdhost on Product Hunt
“Managed Tailscale VPN alternative — flat rate, not per user”
birdhost was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #222 on the daily leaderboard. Tailscale charges $8-$18/user/month. birdhost: from €34.90/month — all users included. Managed hosting for NetBird, the open-source WireGuard mesh VPN. Your own dedicated instance, deployed in 5 minutes. SSO, access policies, posture checks, DNS routing, audit events, reverse proxy with L4 support — expose services via custom domains, TLS, TCP/UDP. 8 regions. ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type II certified data centers. 24/7 monitoring, updates, backups. 7-day free trial.
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