I'm not sure that I "belong" on Netlify, I just want to build and deploy to my droplet

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Hiya @VaelVictus and welcome to our community! Anyone’s welcome on Netlify, but indeed, our service is not really designed for your use case. You are welcome to use it that way, but it will take a fair amount of setup on your part to get it working and we won’t provide extensive tech support as our primary business is indeed webhosting rather than continuous integration.

You might be able to use this technique to copy stuff to your droplet:

[Support Guide] Using an SSH key via environment variable during build

Last checked by Netlify Support Team: December 2022 Some workflows require use of an SSH private key during build - for instance, logging in to a server to restart your backend, or using git clone on a private repo during build. There are better ways to accomplish this goal for most use cases, but in case you choose to do that, below is an approach that can work. First, create an ssh key and add the public key (shorter one) to your service (e.g. on your GitHub repo settings, or in ~/.ssh/auth…

Please be aware that you might end up in paid territory on our service, even with no website here since we do charge for build minutes used in excess of 300/month as described here:

Build Minutes Pricing FAQ | Netlify

So, make sure you have optimized your build minutes usage:

[Support Guide] How can I optimize my Netlify build time?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 If you are interested in learning more about how our bots approach building sites, these three articles are a great place to start: How our Build Bots build sites The last major upgrade to our build environment and perhaps least-loved but most useful, how to debug your builds So you might think, it’s great that Netlify builds every commit from my repos…but isn’t that a bit wasteful? The answer is, it depends, but we can at least give you…