Deploy Saleor E-Commerce Platform on Your VPS

Saleor is a modern, open-source e-commerce platform built with Python (Django) and GraphQL. It provides a headless commerce backend with a React-based dashboard and storefront, making it ideal for custom e-commerce solutions. This guide covers deploying the full Saleor stack on your VPS.

Why Saleor?

• GraphQL-first: Modern API for flexible frontend integrations
• Multi-channel: Sell across multiple storefronts from one backend
• Extensible: Plugin system and webhook-based extensibility
• Enterprise features: Multi-warehouse, multi-currency, permissions system
• Open source: BSD license, active community, self-hostable

System Requirements

# Minimum VPS specs for Saleor:
# - 4 vCPU
# - 8GB RAM (16GB recommended)
# - 40GB+ SSD storage
# - Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04

# Install system dependencies
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y python3.11 python3.11-venv python3.11-dev \
  postgresql-16 redis-server \
  build-essential libffi-dev libssl-dev \
  libjpeg-dev libpq-dev git

Database Setup

sudo -u postgres psql  .env  /etc/systemd/system/saleor-celery.service  /etc/systemd/system/saleor-celery-beat.service  /etc/systemd/system/saleor-api.service  .env