# Maintenance (Kots)

This section contains maintenance operations guidelines for your CARTO Self-hosted installation.

The content of this section applies only to [**Single VM deployments**](https://docs.carto.com/carto-self-hosted/deployment-guides/single-vm-deployment) and [**Standard Orchestrated containers deployments**](https://docs.carto.com/carto-self-hosted/deployment-guides/kubernetes), using Kots.