HexOS 1.0 Local Rollout Complete
April 21, 2026
By Jerod Fritz
Three weeks ago we announced HexOS 1.0. Today we can confirm that every existing customer has been migrated to HexOS Local, the new locally hosted architecture that powers it.
What We Actually Pulled Off
Migrating thousands of production servers to an entirely new architecture without asking anyone to reinstall, without scheduling downtime, and without losing a single byte of data is not a small thing. It is the kind of work that, in most organizations, gets planned in quarters and executed over weekends with maintenance windows. We did it incrementally, by order of purchase, while every server stayed online.
Each migration required automated DNS provisioning, SSL certificate generation via a formalized partnership with Let's Encrypt, and installation of the HexOS Local app, all orchestrated from our cloud infrastructure and triggered per user. The legacy hosted backend has been fully deprecated. New customers now onboard directly to Local.
This was building a plane while flying it, and the plane landed.
Why It Matters
When we first previewed the Local architecture last November, the pitch was simple: your Command Deck should talk to your hardware, not to us. That is now reality for every HexOS user.
The majority of your day-to-day interactions with Command Deck now go directly to your server. Pages load faster, app installs respond instantly, and the interface feels like the native tool it was always meant to be. Some operations, like initial setup, monitoring, and network recovery, still pass through our cloud services to keep things running smoothly. But the heavy lifting is local.
Just as importantly, this architecture is the foundation for everything ahead. Smarter app preconfiguration, buddy backups, and features that simply were not possible when every action had to round-trip through the cloud are now on the table.
Post-Launch Stabilization
The weeks since launch have been heads-down on stabilization. We have shipped over 25 production deploys in that time. We resolved a race condition where servers rebooted without a network connection would fail to start Docker, causing the setup wizard to re-appear. We fixed app version display mismatches that made updates look like downgrades. We caught and suppressed an erroneous TrueNAS 26.0-BETA.1 update notification before it could cause real damage. We tuned session handling, fixed dashboard button states, and restored custom apps that had disappeared after migration.
The full list of fixes is in the release notes.
New Customer Experience
With 1.0 out the door, we have refreshed what new customers see when they purchase HexOS. The home page reflects 1.0 availability, the FAQ confirms it is live, the cart page is cleaner, and new buyers now receive a welcome email with step-by-step getting started links and an invitation to join the community.
What's Next
With Local behind us, the team is focused on:
- Expanding the curated apps catalog with more one-click installs and deeper preconfiguration. This is the highest priority coming out of 1.0.
- Buddy Backups (1.1) for peer-to-peer encrypted replication between HexOS servers.
- VM support (1.2) for creating and managing virtual machines from the HexOS interface.
- System health improvements with guided action paths for degraded states and drive failures.
- Documentation overhaul by consolidating community guides from our forums and other sources into docs.hexos.com as a single, comprehensive knowledge base for all things HexOS.
- New website and ecommerce experience to support subscription pricing alongside the lifetime license. We have no intention of removing the lifetime license, but Early Access pricing is coming to an end soon.
Thank You
Thank you to everyone who helped us identify and reproduce issues during the rollout. Your willingness to share logs, test edge cases, and provide detailed reports made this a smoother transition for everyone.
We are also bolstering our communication and customer support by rolling out our public Discord server. Whether you have a question, want to share feedback, or just want to hang out with the team and other HexOS users, find us there anytime.