Dokku

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Dokku reviews and mentions

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  • dokploy VS Dokku - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 26 Aug 2024
    A good alternative as recommended on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358020
  • piku: The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2024
  • Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2024
    Would be great to see a comparison to some better known alternatives like

    - Dokku [0]

    - CapRover [1]

    [0] https://dokku.com/

    [1] https://caprover.com/

  • Hosting old Node Projects 👴🏼
    1 project | dev.to | 25 Apr 2024
    If you want to dig into it anyways, Dokku is an interesting mention. They provide an Open Source PaaS that you can install on your server to simplify self hosting containers.
  • Deploy Node.js applications on a VPS using Coolify
    4 projects | dev.to | 20 Apr 2024
    When I came across Coolify, I thought of giving it a try. I am aware of Dokku, but I never really tried it because it doesn't have a UI. I work primarily as a UI developer, so having a nice UI to work with is a plus for me.
  • The Hater's Guide to Kubernetes
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Mar 2024
    I run all my projects on Dokku. It’s a sweet spot for me between a barebones VPS with Docker Compose and something a lot more complicated like k8s. Dokku comes with a bunch of solid plugins for databases that handle backups and such. Zero downtime deploys, TLS cert management, reverse proxies, all out of the box. It’s simple enough to understand in a weekend and has been quietly maintained for many years. The only downside is it’s meant mostly for single server deployments, but I’ve never needed another server so far.

    https://dokku.com/

  • Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
    Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things:

    Caprover (https://caprover.com/)

    Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku)

    But people still choose Netlify and Vercel for ease of use I think.

    Maybe we need something that's just Netlify. The closest I've seen to the "right" UX is Ness:

    https://ness.sh

  • The 2024 Web Hosting Report
    37 projects | dev.to | 20 Feb 2024
    The modern iteration of these tools has taken the developer experience learnings from the Platform as a Service (PaaS) category, and will bring them to your own VM, giving you your own personal PaaS. Example of this include Dokku, Coolify, Caprover, Cloud66 and many more!
  • Ask HN: Is there an open source alternative to Digitalocean app platform?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Oct 2023
  • Ask HN: How are you hosting multiple small apps?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2023
    Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these options:

    1) https://dokku.com - lets you turn your light sail instance basically into heroku

    2) https://render.com

    3) https://fly.io

    4) If you have aws credits this is their heroku equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk

    above is not what I do but would be the options I would pursue if I understand your preference and requirement correctly.

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