Installing is easy. Removing is the hard part.

Every app store on every server panel is happy to install things. Almost none of them will remove one properly. So servers accumulate: half-deleted sites, orphaned databases, config files pointing at things that no longer exist. A year later nobody dares touch anything.

MAESTRO now removes as carefully as it installs.

See what's actually there

The Apps room now has two parts: On this server — what's genuinely installed, detected live, not guessed from a list — and Available, the things you could add. No more wondering whether that thing you tried last month is still running somewhere.

It tells you what will break

Here's the part we care most about. Things depend on each other: webmail is useless without a mail server behind it. So when you go to remove something, MAESTRO says so plainly:

"⚠️ roundcube-caddy depends on this. Removing it will stop it working. Remove that first if you don't want surprises."

Not a generic "are you sure?" — a specific, useful sentence about your server. That's the dependency knowledge we've been building recipe by recipe, finally made visible at the moment it matters.

Your data is archived, not deleted

Removing a mail server does not throw away your mail. Removing WordPress does not throw away your site. Before anything is touched, the irreplaceable parts are archived into a single file in /root — so if you change your mind next week, it's still there.

The panel tells you exactly what happens to your data before you confirm: what's archived, what stays, what's genuinely gone. And the passwords that belonged to the removed app are dropped from your Vault, so it doesn't linger as clutter.

Watch it happen

Just like installing, removal runs live in front of you, step by step. And yes — "remove webmail" works in the assistant too, which checks the dependencies first and tells you what it found before doing anything.

A tidy server isn't the one where you never installed anything. It's the one where removing was as easy as adding.

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