coolify

I use https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify on a VPS for this.

I think there's a couple decent alternatives out there: https://alternativeto.net/software/heroku/ There are also a lot of cool "self-hosted Heroku" alternatives - Coolify (PHP) (2020) https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify - Dokku (Go) (2013) https://github.com/dokku/dokku - Dokploy (TypeScript) (2024) https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy - CapRover (TypeScript) (2017) https://github.com/caprover/caprover - Komodo (Rust) (2022) https://github.com/moghtech/komodo

coolify It's great to have easily self hosted alternative for variety of services https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify

Been using coolify to host my blog + analytics + a couple personal projects for around 6 months. Good for 1-click installs that “don’t need” a lot of maintenance, like Ghost, Plausible, etc. Had some issues with spikes in CPU usage (similar case: https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/issues/3226) Monitoring is not enough but I just go straight to the container im looking for and htop it. For not 1-click I still sometimes feel like bumping into a brick wall, and go for a standalone docker-compose setup outside of coolify. Coolify is too high-level to debug small Docker intricacies (or maybe it’s that I’m bad with that).

I was also looking at alternatives - K8S-based - https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero https://github.com/pluralsh/plural DCR-based - https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify https://github.com/dokku/dokku/ https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy https://github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwave Most of these projects are maintained by a single maintainer; for business critical apps look elsewhere.

Love self-hosting and really got into it over the last couple of months. I run a bunch of services for my company now and also in my home lab. I use a Hetzner VPS and provision things either via ansible + docker compose files or via https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/. The awesome-selfhosted repository is also a great place to find projects to self-host but lacks some features for ease-of-use, which is why I've created a directory with some UX improvements on https://selfhostedworld.com. It has search, filters projects by stars, trending, date and also has a dark-mode.

Coolify! https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify

Related discussion on the front page today: "Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356239 > Coolify can enable organizations of any size to host an arbitrary number of free, self-hosted software easier than ever. https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify > An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

I've been testing Coolify [1] for this, so far the experience has been smooth as a self-hostable Vercel/Netlify/PaaS replacement. Now onto finding/learning host management tools (Ansible, NixOS, Terraform and the like). [1] https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify

The creator of the blog is Andres who is also building coolify[0], a heroku/netflify self-hosted alternative. I wanted to give a shoutout to him and his product. I've been running it for a few months and love it. Really was has been kinda the secret sauce of ease of use for me to start self-hosting things like changedetector, jdownloader, vaultwarden, etc. It also has a pretty nicely growing community where people are contributing new templates (I added one for Syncthing) and helping each other debug. The only issue I've had with it is things kinda fall over if you run out of disk space, which happened when I was running on an instance with just 10GB storage. So a little better alerting or prevention around that would be great but otherwise it has been pretty solid. https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify