Pricing for Creators
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Publish hands-on content that actually runs
iximiuz Labs is a publishing platform for hands-on, executable learning materials — not just text and screenshots.
With the Tinkerer plan, you can become an iximiuz Labs Author and publish your own content, including:
- Practical Challenges with automated validation
- Interactive Tutorials with live playgrounds on the side
- Structured Courses, Skill Paths, or Roadmaps (optional)
All backed by real Linux VMs, Docker, and Kubernetes — not simulations.
Show, don't tell
Instead of explaining how something should work, you can give readers a real environment and let them explore it.
- Attach a playground to every article or challenge
- Preconfigure multi-node setups, networks, disks, and services
- Let learners break things, debug, and verify their solutions
It's like CodePen or StackBlitz — but for server-side systems.
Designed for serious technical authors
iximiuz Labs works especially well for:
- ✓ Technical bloggers who care about depth and correctness
- ✓ Developer Advocates running demos and workshops
- ✓ Trainers and instructors teaching Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, or networking
- ✓ Tool authors who want users to try before they trust
You focus on the content. The platform handles environments, isolation, scale, and UX.
Flexible access & monetization
You stay in control:
- Publish content for free, restricted, or paid
- Share direct links without requiring catalog placement
- Keep community content free if you want — always
Independent authors' content is clearly separated from Official materials, so there's no confusion for learners.
Why publish on iximiuz Labs?
Because readers don't just read your content — they run it.
And that makes your work:
- ✓ More credible
- ✓ More memorable
- ✓ More useful
Yearly plans are the best fit for long-term subscribers
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Frequently Asked Questions
From the Author
Hi there! It's Ivan, the creator of iximiuz Labs.
Since 2019, through my blog and newsletter, I've published more than 100 articles on Containers, Kubernetes, Linux, Networking, and Programming. I've also created several open source projects and spent countless hours answering questions on Twitter, Discord, and other platforms. All with a single goal: to help people master the Server Side craft.
A few years ago, when iximiuz.com started gaining traction, my dream evolved. I wanted to augment my static writing with a more dynamic experience — giving readers the ability to spin up carefully crafted remote sandbox environments right in their browser to experiment with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes without needing to install anything on their local machines. This dream eventually led to the creation of iximiuz Labs.
The platform uses a Freemium model with a generous free tier. A large part of the content is (and will remain) free, and only a single-click signup is required to access the playgrounds. However, on the free tier, the daily playground time, the microVM's resources, and Internet egress traffic are significantly limited. This serves two purposes: keeps bots away and also incentivizes the most serious students to become paying members.
With upgraded iximiuz Labs membership students get virtually unlimited daily playtime, more powerful microVMs, and unrestricted Internet egress, allowing them to experiment with a much wider set of technologies in much more permissive environments. Trust me, you will notice the difference even if you find the free tier already good.
For the first couple of years, I was building iximiuz Labs alongside a full-time engineering job — nights, weekends, and whatever spare time I could find. These days, iximiuz Labs is my full focus. But "full focus" doesn't mean "easy mode": keeping a fleet of servers healthy, shipping new playground capabilities, and steadily growing the content catalog is still a lot of work for one person. The project is community-funded, and the revenue is (so far) just barely enough to sustain a single creator. That's why every purchase of the Official Content Pack or the Tinkerer plan makes a real difference — it keeps the free tier generous, funds infrastructure, and buys me more time to build, write, and improve the platform 🚀
