# Shipways

> How Shipways provisions servers, serves sites and deploys to them.

## Docs

- [Alerts and notifications](https://docs.shipways.dev/alerts.md): What Shipways watches for, and who hears about it.
- [API tokens and the API](https://docs.shipways.dev/api.md): Reaching Shipways from a script, from CI, or from an assistant.
- [Backups](https://docs.shipways.dev/backups.md): Database dumps, kept somewhere other than the server they came from.
- [Databases](https://docs.shipways.dev/databases.md): The engine on a server, its databases, and who can reach them.
- [What Shipways is](https://docs.shipways.dev/index.md): A control panel for servers you own, running the software you already know.
- [Organizations, roles and members](https://docs.shipways.dev/organizations.md): Who is in, and what each of them may do.
- [Daemons](https://docs.shipways.dev/processes/daemons.md): Long-running processes Supervisor keeps alive.
- [Heartbeats](https://docs.shipways.dev/processes/heartbeats.md): Noticing work that has stopped running rather than started failing.
- [Scheduled jobs](https://docs.shipways.dev/processes/scheduled-jobs.md): Cron, written somewhere it can be checked before it is saved.
- [Recipes](https://docs.shipways.dev/recipes.md): A script you keep, run across the servers you choose.
- [Connecting a server](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/connecting.md): What Shipways needs, what it does to the machine, and what to do when it stops.
- [The firewall](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/firewall.md): What a machine lets through, and the rule you must not take away.
- [Logs](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/logs.md): Reading a machine's logs without SSH.
- [Monitoring and thresholds](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/monitoring.md): What the agent reports, what it means, and when it becomes somebody's problem.
- [PHP versions and configuration](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/php.md): Running several versions on one machine, and the three limits people SSH in to change.
- [When Shipways is locked out](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/recovery.md): The two ways Shipways reaches a machine, and what to do when both are gone.
- [Redis](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/redis.md): The cache, and the password that locks it.
- [Server settings](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/settings.md): Timezone, private connections, and the things that are only about the list.
- [SSH keys](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/ssh-keys.md): Who may sign in to a machine as the deploy user.
- [Server types](https://docs.shipways.dev/servers/types.md): What a machine is for, which decides what goes on it.
- [Certificates](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/certificates.md): HTTPS, renewal, and what happens when it stops working.
- [Running commands](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/commands.md): Running something against a site without reaching for SSH.
- [Adding a site](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/creating.md): What the form asks, and what happens the moment you save.
- [The deploy script](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/deploy-script.md): The part of a deployment that is yours, and the settings around it.
- [Deployments](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/deployments.md): How a release is built, checked, made live, and put back.
- [Domains, DNS and redirects](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/domains.md): Getting traffic to the site, and moving it around once it arrives.
- [The environment file](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/environment.md): Where a site's configuration lives, and the two ways of getting it there.
- [Site kinds](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/kinds.md): What sort of thing a site is, which decides how it is served.
- [Maintenance mode](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/maintenance.md): Taking a site down on purpose, and the way back in while it is down.
- [Nginx configuration and templates](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/nginx.md): What Shipways writes for you, what you can add, and what you can take over.
- [Password protection](https://docs.shipways.dev/sites/security.md): Putting a prompt in front of a whole site.
- [Source control and Composer](https://docs.shipways.dev/source-control.md): Connecting an account, and the logins Composer needs for paid packages.