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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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Post by peaklabs-dev »

scottydelta wrote: post #96

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 Db backup 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 fo…

Backup improvements are planned and under investigation. The only major issues with backups for non DB containers is that they need to be stopped to ensure data integrity. We are investigating some filesystem level snapshots, but not sure yet.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

ansc wrote: post #151
peaklabs-dev wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, you can move or clone to a separate server with a single click. Only volumes are not currently supported when doing this.

How? I can't find it in the docs.

Just use the Clone button on the Resources page or on the Resource Operations tab of an application - the functions are very self-explanatory, so there is no documentation yet.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

gargan wrote: post #155
ansc wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How? I can't find it in the docs.

Me neither. I found this https://github.com/Geczy/coolify-migration but if there's a native way to do it that would be great.

Full instance migration is in development but not yet released.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

geek_at wrote: post #145
pier25 wrote: 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…

After trying coolify I went to dokploy which makes more sense to me and doesn't have any upsells

What upsells does Coolify have? All features are completely free and the Cloud version is exactly the same as the self-hosted one.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

ksajadi wrote: post #77

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

I know that feeling, we are constantly improving the stability of Coolify, so we hope that this is not the case with us.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

satvikpendem wrote: post #152
peaklabs-dev wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A new UI is being planned and developed as we speak, so the UI/UX will improve a lot. PHP has nothing to do with this.

By PHP I meant more that it causes full page renders (ie server side rendered) vs client side rendered frameworks like React.

I understand. We recently made a change that makes all pages render like a SPA, so no full page reloads anymore, that said we are developing a new UI, most likely with vue.js.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

shash7 wrote: post #158
peaklabs-dev wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is true, Coolify supports magic variables to make your life easier by automatically creating values like passwords and URLs, but you are not forced to use them, it is just there to make your life easier, some improvements to the naming and docs for the magic vars are planned.

Those "magic variables" have caused more pain than being helpful. - Added 8 variables inside docker-compose, only 7 get recognized - Why my docker-compose works locally and not on Coolify? Oh yeah it has its own network stuff. Then tell me beforehand! - Error messages like "Oops something is not okay, are you okay?" 0% helpful information, 100% condescending crap I'm not sure why this software keeps getting recommend…

I totally understand, thanks for the feedback. We have a lot of stability improvements planned, especially for deployments (announcement soon).

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

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Post by psviderski »

msy wrote: post #54
pier25 wrote: 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.

What’s your use case for custom certs? Why are the automatically issued Let’s Encrypt ones not enough?

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

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Post by ghoshbishakh »

sgarland wrote: post #112
aaomidi wrote: post #35

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.

It’s because by and large, web devs do not know computing fundamentals, because they’ve had no reason to learn them. If your language handles memory management for you, why would you learn about it? If poor performance in your app can be dealt with by spinning up more copies of it, why would you spend time profiling your code? And, explicitly to your point, if networking can be hand-waved away by tools like ngrok, wh…

I mean ngrok doesn't handle all your networking pains. It is kind of a quick tool to get a public URL to localhost. But yes, it is painful to find good candidates with some computer networks / OS knowledge. We run a similar service https://pinggy.io

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

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Post by ansc »

peaklabs-dev wrote: post #163
gargan wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Me neither. I found this https://github.com/Geczy/coolify-migration but if there's a native way to do it that would be great.

Full instance migration is in development but not yet released.

I understand you think it is obvious and no docs are required, but it is a bit ambiguous ”you can move or clone to a separate server with a single click” and ”Full instance migration is in development but not yet released.”
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