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What Glacro Actually Runs, and What It Doesn't

A static host in one region. What that means for Next.js, where server-side rendering stops, and why we would rather say so up front than in a support ticket.

Glacro · Published August 26, 2026

Glacro takes a Git repository or an uploaded folder, runs your build on a managed runner, and serves the files that build produces over HTTPS. That is the whole product. It is worth being precise about it, because the boundary between 'static files' and 'a running application' is where most hosting disappointment lives.

What runs, and where

Builds execute on our managed build runners. The output is uploaded to our object storage, and requests to your project's URL are served from there. Everything runs in our Mumbai region. There is one region. There is no CDN in front of it and no points of presence in other countries, so a visitor in Berlin is talking to Mumbai and the latency reflects that.

Key Takeaway
If your framework needs a Node process alive to answer a request — Server Actions, server-side rendering per request, API routes, incremental regeneration — Glacro cannot host it today. Static output only.

Why say this out loud

The honest version costs us some sign-ups. The alternative costs somebody a migration: they build against a capability the marketing implied, deploy, and find out at the worst possible moment. We would rather be the boring option that does what it says.

What is genuinely good here

Static sites are the majority of what people deploy, and for those the trade is a good one: builds are cheap, there is no server to fall over, rollout is atomic, and billing is in rupees with GST invoices rather than a dollar amount that moves with the exchange rate. If that is your workload, this is a reasonable place to put it.

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