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Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m glad that the age of platform decay and VC backed companies that these OSS alternatives exist to counter this destructive trend of extraction based vendor lock in. Vercel, Netlify and Heroku will inevitably not exist in 10-20 years but Coolify will, humming along on a regular VPS.

Heroku has been around for ~17 years at this point. Why do you think it disappears in the next 10?

Because it was acquired by Salesforce.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Well then, luckily the name is "Coolify" and not "Coolie."

Wow, a nearly two decade old account, pretty cool, and still recently used too. I find a lot of old accounts simply are not used anymore, for whatever reason. I don't think pg even posts here anymore.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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post #41

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 V…

Kamal has a lot of rough edges (still can’t support custom certs for example) but is still a far more mature solution. It does less but better.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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post #34

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.

Same here! Been self hosting on hetzner for about a year now, and support the OSS project for $10/month. Love how it can auto-deploy new git commits, deploy Postgres or any database to the same or separate servers, and you can cram as many apps or docker containers onto a single VPS or move them to a separate server when you need to.

Finally, little utilities like snapdrop or mosquitto are a button click away. Strongly recommended - it’s liberating! I don’t need to re-learn every PaaS vendor’s system - my PaaS comes with me. And a junior can be onboarded to this UI way easier than dokku or kamal IMO.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

#57
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.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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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. Beside…

It’s very much on-topic. You’re just shilling your own product under the thread of a similar product, nothing to be ashamed off chief. Shill away.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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post #58

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. Beside…

It’s very much on-topic. You’re just shilling your own product under the thread of a similar product, nothing to be ashamed off chief. Shill away.

It's completely true, and I AM ashamed for doing it. But it's a terrible time to be a PaaS founder, since there are very few new projects being started at the moment. Without exaggeration, I think there are somewhere between 10% and 20% of new projects being started (which is the only point people will actually choose to use our platform) compared to 2022. Hard times, lower standards. Sorry. We've got ~40 website visitors from that comment so far, and I can't pass on that.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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post #41

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 V…

Had the exact same experience. Incredibly clunky UI/UX.

For docker-compose, I had to create a specific one for Coolify because it goes and does its own magic.

Tried Dokploy(similar service), better UI but lacking in docs.

In the right hands, these products could be so much better.

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