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I found CapRover and dokku to have some limitations such as lack of a GUI or long setup process. In contrast with Coolify, it Just Worked™. I'll have to check out Tau as well.
CapRover has a UI to install new apps or configure existing ones.
Self-hosted platform as a service?! Isn't the whole point of platforms as a service (from the customer perspective) that you don't need to do the hassle of self hosting. There are pros and cons to using an external service and to self hosting. And just throwing all these words at me together makes me feel like there isn't a coherent mental model of what this is trying to be, or if there is it isn't clearly communicat…
Not sure of Tau's exact features but one nice thing about the Vercels and Netlifys is the integration with Github and easy CI /CD setup. Having CI taken care of by just installing a single package on your own server is compelling. The main think that they take care of that this probably can't on bare metal is redundancy and uptime and scaling.
how is this achieving scale-up and scale-to-zero ? from my (rudimentary) investigation only knative k8s had scale-to-zero implemented well enough. and if you dont have scale-to-zero, you cant claim a vercel alternative.
how does this compare to coolify and caprover already established and mature PaaS ? this is a welcome addition
What key features make Tau a compelling self-hosted PaaS alternative?
First coolify[1] and now Tau. More competition the better for users. From the quick look it seems like coolify is more fully featured? [1]: https://coolify.io/