Learn more about Square Cloud
Square Cloud is a cloud hosting and compute capacity rental service for applications. Our mission is to simplify deploys, availability, and scale with a fast, secure, and accessible technical foundation for developers, teams, and companies.
From product promise to operational proof
This page brings together the institutional and operational points that matter most for customers, partners, and technical teams to understand what Square Cloud offers, why teams choose it, and how it sustains trust in production.
Square Cloud FAQ: hosting, deploys, and reliability
Frequently asked questions designed for organic discovery, search intent, and clear evaluation of our hosting and infrastructure service.
What is Square Cloud and what is it used for?
Square Cloud is a cloud hosting, deployment, and infrastructure service for APIs, bots, websites, databases, and file storage, built for teams that need to ship and scale without unnecessary operational overhead.
- Continuous deployment flow with CI/CD, logs, and observability in one place.
- Isolated runtime, malicious traffic mitigation, and real-time monitoring.
- Unified operational environment for applications, data, and assets, all in one hosting service.
Square Cloud is a hosting and infrastructure service for APIs, bots, websites, databases, and file storage, focused on fast publishing, stability, and production scalability.
Why build and deploy on Square Cloud?
Delivery speed, stability, and operational predictability are treated as core product capabilities so teams can reduce manual work and focus more on building the application itself.
- Fast average deploy times to shorten release cycles.
- Production-ready flow with rollback, snapshots, and real-time metrics.
- GitHub integration for modern, traceable development pipelines.
Because the service combines fast deployment, isolated execution, real-time observability, and a unified operations flow, reducing manual work and improving predictability for technical teams.
What results show that Square Cloud is reliable?
Internal usage data and customer cases show traction and operational maturity at scale, with concrete signs of production use.
- 500k+ developers have used the platform, which handles 4B+ requests per month.
- 10PB+ of monthly data transfer in production workloads.
- Zennify case with lower costs, sub-second deploys, and long-term stability.
According to internal data, more than 500,000 developers have used Square Cloud and the platform handles 4B+ requests per month. There are also customer cases with measurable gains in performance and operations.
Can Square Cloud host bots, APIs, websites, and databases?
Is Square Cloud good for production, scale, and fast deploys?
Company, trust and support
Explore our brand, governance and official channels
We organized Square Cloud's key institutional information in one place to help customers, partners and compliance teams validate the brand with confidence.
Company information
A consolidated view of Square Cloud's brand, legal documents and contact channels.
Square Cloud's logo was designed to represent both a solid technical foundation and operational flexibility.
- Two squares represent the robustness and reliability of our infrastructure.
- The angled composition references modern container-based architecture.
- Our brand reflects our commitment to flexibility, portability and scalability.
History of Square Cloud
Discover the history of Square Cloud, our journey of innovation and growth. Learn how we evolved, overcame challenges, and continue driving the future of cloud technology.
2021 H2
Official Launch
Square Cloud was born in 2021 with João Otávio's vision of making bot hosting simple, secure, and accessible. The official launch brought native support for JavaScript and TypeScript, as well as integration with Python and Java, focusing on bots for Discord, Twitter, and Twitch. With 300 slots on what was then a free entry plan, the service quickly reached 1,591 users by year-end, demonstrating its strength even in the face of challenges like DDoS attacks, overcome without compromising operations or service integrity.
2021 H2
Official Launch
Square Cloud was born in 2021 with João Otávio's vision of making bot hosting simple, secure, and accessible. The official launch brought native support for JavaScript and TypeScript, as well as integration with Python and Java, focusing on bots for Discord, Twitter, and Twitch. With 300 slots on what was then a free entry plan, the service quickly reached 1,591 users by year-end, demonstrating its strength even in the face of challenges like DDoS attacks, overcome without compromising operations or service integrity.
2022 H1
Expansion and Infrastructure Improvement
In the first half of 2022, Square Cloud expanded its plans, with a significant jump in memory up to 16 GB and new options like Expert, Senior, and Ultimate, reaching 5,000 users. The complete network migration to Hivelocity significantly increased infrastructure performance and stability, laying the foundation for sustainable growth.
2022 H1
Expansion and Infrastructure Improvement
In the first half of 2022, Square Cloud expanded its plans, with a significant jump in memory up to 16 GB and new options like Expert, Senior, and Ultimate, reaching 5,000 users. The complete network migration to Hivelocity significantly increased infrastructure performance and stability, laying the foundation for sustainable growth.
2022 H2
Accelerated Growth and Global Expansion
With an accelerated pace, Square Cloud reached 10,000 users and was hosting over a thousand applications at once. The period reinforced the Ultimate plan, with up to 32 GB of RAM, and global expansion of the service, which started offering support in English and Spanish, in addition to including the Go language, strengthening its development ecosystem.
2022 H2
Accelerated Growth and Global Expansion
With an accelerated pace, Square Cloud reached 10,000 users and was hosting over a thousand applications at once. The period reinforced the Ultimate plan, with up to 32 GB of RAM, and global expansion of the service, which started offering support in English and Spanish, in addition to including the Go language, strengthening its development ecosystem.
2023 H1
Record Growth and New Features
The first half of 2023 marked record growth — more than 867% over the previous year. Square Cloud expanded support for languages like Rust and Elixir, launched a new panel and website with real-time logs, monitoring and proprietary systems, and reached 30,000 users, consolidating itself as one of the most complete solutions for developers.
2023 H1
Record Growth and New Features
The first half of 2023 marked record growth — more than 867% over the previous year. Square Cloud expanded support for languages like Rust and Elixir, launched a new panel and website with real-time logs, monitoring and proprietary systems, and reached 30,000 users, consolidating itself as one of the most complete solutions for developers.
2023 H2
Robust Infrastructure and Resilience
Expansion continued with support for PHP, the opening of headquarters in Goiânia, and massive investments in infrastructure, surpassing 1 TB of RAM and adding bare metal servers. Integration with GitHub was redesigned for near-instant deployments, support began operating in real time, and Square Cloud reached 40,000 users. Even in the face of Hurricane Idalia, the infrastructure in Tampa remained stable, reflecting the company's focus on resilience and performance.
2023 H2
Robust Infrastructure and Resilience
Expansion continued with support for PHP, the opening of headquarters in Goiânia, and massive investments in infrastructure, surpassing 1 TB of RAM and adding bare metal servers. Integration with GitHub was redesigned for near-instant deployments, support began operating in real time, and Square Cloud reached 40,000 users. Even in the face of Hurricane Idalia, the infrastructure in Tampa remained stable, reflecting the company's focus on resilience and performance.
2024 H1
Technical and Operational Maturity
Square Cloud entered 2024 consolidating its technical and operational maturity. Proxies were rewritten in Go, Blob storage was restructured for greater speed and security, and overall infrastructure latency was reduced. Runtimes were extensively updated, the dashboard received major improvements, and operations reinforced compliance with international standards. With billions of monthly requests processed stably, Square Cloud proved its ability to operate at scale.
2024 H1
Technical and Operational Maturity
Square Cloud entered 2024 consolidating its technical and operational maturity. Proxies were rewritten in Go, Blob storage was restructured for greater speed and security, and overall infrastructure latency was reduced. Runtimes were extensively updated, the dashboard received major improvements, and operations reinforced compliance with international standards. With billions of monthly requests processed stably, Square Cloud proved its ability to operate at scale.
2025 H1
Innovation and Performance Leadership
In 2025, Square Cloud raised its infrastructure to a new level, rewriting critical systems, expanding theoretical capacity to over 100 billion monthly requests, and optimizing processes across global clusters. New high‑performance plans were introduced, along with major API enhancements and significant improvements to the dashboard and user experience. With strengthened stability, enhanced security, and rigorous governance, Square Cloud has established itself as a benchmark for performance and reliability.
2025 H1
Innovation and Performance Leadership
In 2025, Square Cloud raised its infrastructure to a new level, rewriting critical systems, expanding theoretical capacity to over 100 billion monthly requests, and optimizing processes across global clusters. New high‑performance plans were introduced, along with major API enhancements and significant improvements to the dashboard and user experience. With strengthened stability, enhanced security, and rigorous governance, Square Cloud has established itself as a benchmark for performance and reliability.
2025 H2
Accessibility and Sophistication
The second half of 2025 marked a new phase of accessibility and sophistication. The arrival of the Hobby plan democratized access to professional hosting, while high-performance database hosting for Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL expanded the service's reach. Integration with GitHub was completely redesigned, logs migrated to Grafana Loki, and the dashboard gained new analytical and personalization tools. Even under massive DDoS attacks, operations remained unshaken — a reflection of the technical maturity and resilience that define Square Cloud's trajectory.
2025 H2
Accessibility and Sophistication
The second half of 2025 marked a new phase of accessibility and sophistication. The arrival of the Hobby plan democratized access to professional hosting, while high-performance database hosting for Redis, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL expanded the service's reach. Integration with GitHub was completely redesigned, logs migrated to Grafana Loki, and the dashboard gained new analytical and personalization tools. Even under massive DDoS attacks, operations remained unshaken — a reflection of the technical maturity and resilience that define Square Cloud's trajectory.
João Otávio Stivi
Founder & CEO
A developer at heart, João founded Square Cloud in 2021 with a simple goal: make deploying to the cloud effortless. He still leads the team behind the hosting infrastructure that thousands of developers trust every day.
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Trust in Square Cloud is built through consistent decisions: transparent rules, practical security, and accountability across the full product lifecycle.
Built with Square Cloud
Zennify is a complete e-commerce ecosystem integrated with Discord, developed for creators, developers, and companies who want to sell digital products in an automated and professional way. With a focus on high performance, security, and user experience, Zennify processes thousands of transactions monthly with zero downtime.
Complete transformation
How Square Cloud transformed our operation
The decision to migrate to Square Cloud Enterprise was a turning point for Zennify. Square Cloud allowed us to abandon technical tasks that did not add direct value to our business.
Measurable Results
The results that drove our growth
The transition to Square Cloud Enterprise brought significant gains for the company. Processes became more agile and integrated, with automations that reduced task execution time and eliminated operational bottlenecks.
Reduction in monthly infrastructure costs.
Deployment time reduced from 5 minutes to less than 1 second.
Zero downtime recorded over 19 months of operation.
CPU usage on the Enterprise plan rarely exceeds 1%.
Square Cloud completely transformed our operation. We reduced costs by 43% by migrating from traditional VPS, achieved 100% uptime over 19 consecutive months, and our deploy now takes less than 1 second. The infrastructure is extremely reliable, and the technical support is exceptional. We can't imagine Zennify running on any other hosting service.
Zennify Team
Founders & Developers
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