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  pier25
  Tried it for a bit. Paid one month of the subscription.The dashboard is incredibly clunky and at the time they didn't have SSL for db connections (not sure about now). A lot of stuff you need to know what you're doing like configuring tags for Traefik etc.The deal breaker was it didn't have zero downtime deploys. Any pending request when you update an app is simply killed.I was expecting something like Heroku or Vercel but this ain't it.Ended up concluding that if I wanted to run/deploy apps on my own VPS I'd just use Kamal or Dokku. Both have zero downtime deploys, certbot, proxy, etc.
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  zachlatta
  I highly recommend Coolify. I evaluated every option when looking for a Heroku alternative, and Coolify is clearly the best as long as you don’t absolutely require zero downtime deploys.We are hosting over 100 services on it for https://hackclub.com and it’s been great. We’re 3 months in now.The key is to think about it as a GUI on top of Docker, not as a fully managed solution.It’s one of those PHP apps that’s weirdly reliable. I see lots of other comments recommending Dokku / Dokploy / others. None of those options are nearly as mature as Coolify in my experience.
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  crudbug
  I was also looking at alternatives -K8S-based -https://github.com/cozystack/cozystackhttps://github.com/kubero-dev/kuberohttps://github.com/pluralsh/pluralDCR-based -https://github.com/coollabsio/coolifyhttps://github.com/dokku/dokku/https://github.com/Dokploy/dokployhttps://github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwaveMost of these projects are maintained by a single maintainer; for business critical apps look elsewhere.
• scottydelta
  I highly recommend coolify. Been hosting it on a dedicated server with 16 core and 64 GB ram and it powers following things for me right now- prefect for ai and other automations.- metabase- postiz- open webui- jupyter notebook- few experimental Dbbackup is an issue but the best way I have found is to create a dedicated folder for your containers volume and edit docker compose in coolify UI to use this path for all volumes. Now you can backup coolify data and this container volumes folder.You can assign a wildcard subdomain to it and it can then assign subdomains easily to any project with ssl. Pretty nifty.Think of coolify as ui for docker and other network things on server. I use lazydocker to manage containers via command line too on server when coolify won't bend to my will. So both combined together gives a solid control and ease.
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  amanzi
  I've been using Coolify for about a year now and have been very happy with it. It's really low maintenance, it has built in backups for your apps and databases, decent security by default, and is super easy to use. I log into the underlying VMs once per month to do an apt update/upgrade, and that's about it.
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  huksley
  Remember all those horror stories about ridiculous bills from public cloud providers? I also got $4.5k bill once for simple mistake on AWS.So I decided to build Vercel for your own servers - DollarDeploy, which manages servers and deploys NextJS apps (without docker) and docker compose configs to your server. We don't have self hosted or open source but cloud version starts from $1/mo
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  hk1337
  I don't mean it as discouragement but, at least for me, I would choose Heroku or Netlify because I don't want to self host it. I want someone else to manage all those bits for me.It's good experience building the app though and good to have alternatives available.
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  theanonymousone
  I have also been using Coolify happily since its early(?) days (mid 2022 IIRC). One big plus for me is that there is nothing to be installed on the client: No CLI, etc. In my specific use case, I switch laptops I work with, so it's a huge advantage that I can just open the UI in the browser and do my work. Of course there is room for improvements in many corners of it, but I couldn't get any of the alternatives to works the same way, yet.
• upmostly
  Tried this but ended up building our own competitor: Hypership.devWe're solving slightly more than what Coolify are by providing Auth, analytics, event tracking, an admin dashboard and more.
• ksajadi
  I have a big issue with any self hosted alternative to name your paas here. Every time I try one I find myself maintaining the PaaS instead of maintaining my app, which defeats the whole purpose of a PaaS
• steve_adams_86
  I’m happy using coolify. I self host on my Mac Studio as the control plane and deploy to digital ocean. I’m currently looking to host in Canada instead, but not having much luck. I considered hosting my deployments locally as well, I don’t get much traffic, but haven’t made a decision yet.Overall it’s good software that just does what it says it will. My needs aren’t particularly complex, but they aren’t totally trivial either. It does a great job orchestrating things without me needing to worry much about the inner workings.I’ve done these things manually for a long time and I would be fine continuing to do that, but… I’ve got a job, kids, other hobbies, etc. It has been great to have a simple control plane to automate a lot of it for me. I find it makes it more likely for me to build and deploy something in the first place, which is what really counts for me at the end of the day.The discord has also been a good resource. They’re very helpful and the vibe is very positive in my experience. It has been, and still seems like an ecosystem worth investing in.
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  NitpickLawyer
  Perhaps a bit tangential on the subject, but in the same spirit - does anyone know of an open source self-hostable alternative to runpod/vast for managing your GPUs? Our small team has some bare metal servers and I'd like to try something light to manage / reserve instances w/ the convenience of a webui and a place where the team can see at a glance who is using what, and eventually some notes on how long each deployment is likely to take (self filled ofc).
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  ofrzeta
  No idea why there's almost no PaaS solution for Kubernetes. It would be a great platform with some add-ons. I know there's Porter but only on AWS and Azure if I understand correctly. Which is fine for many use cases I guess. Still I want to self-host for dev without huge cost.There's also Korifi which implements the Cloud Foundry API on Kubernetes but it's still in progress and its future might be uncertain.
• maelito
  Also checkout Dokploy. Incredible to leave Vercel.
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  W6zVktFA
  Coolify unfortunately didn't click with me, and I had a bad experience with a Redis database, so I stopped using it.I would recommend Elestio (eles[dot]io) as an alternative which isn't open source, or self-hostable, but met my primary goal of drastically reducing cloud costs. And you can bring your own cloud/server, though I'm choosing to also rent from Hetzner through Elestio.I'm running two redis databases on machines with 3 cpus, 4gb ram, and 80gb storage for about $80 total (the machines are billed hourly, but you get the max monthly bill up front).
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  matus_congrady
  I'm sorry for being a bit off-topic, but I'm a founder of a PaaS company myself, and I think that what we offer is a great alternative to Coolify for companies that need a more "managed" and reliable infra.https://stacktape.com is a Heroku/Vercel-like PaaS platform that deploys directly to your own AWS account.It supports both serverless (lambda functions), and serverful (AWS ECS Fargate or EC2) deployments. Besides that, it supports other AWS infrastructure resources, such as RDS MySQL/Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, etc..You can deploy from console, using git-push-to-deploy, or even use preview deployments (ephemeral environments for every PR).Compared to alternatives, it's both very easy to use, and flexible/extensible at the same time. You can use it to quickly deploy anything in a few minutes, yet it will be sufficient to cover even complex infrastructure needs you might run into in the future.
• pjmlp
  Plus points for any language, I dislike how Vercel and Nelify build up on AWS and then we only get JS/TS/Go, or WebAssembly gimmicks.
• aaomidi
  I've been fascinated by how little developers know how to take a service they have, and make it accessible on something like their home network.It's honestly a shocker to me. There's so much knowledge about the stack that gets lost with these services.
• satvikpendem
  Coolify is cool, pun intended, but a bit clunky (maybe due to the PHP nature of it), I recommend Dokploy these days.
• LeicaLatte
  I would love to move away from railway to Coolify or dokploy. Someday.
• dan_can_code
  Very cool options here. I'm always looking for options to throw something on a spare raspberry pi and this looks like a great tool to self-host.
• icelancer
  Had a bunch of problems trying to host / run this on an internal-only network.
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  ezekg
  Does this project make its money via the cloud offering, or via sponsors? It's kind of unclear.
• cedel2k1
  Love my Coolify Setup!
• intev
  Anyone know how this compares to caprover?
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