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Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by slowwriter »

diggan wrote: post #2

> Managed Hosting: No need to manage your own servers > 1 Servers (You bring the servers) Hmm, am I out of touch, or wouldn't "managed hosting" imply I don't bring the servers? Then the "Free plan" says "Manager your own infrastructure installing dokploy ui in your own server", which sounds the same as the paid plan, except without support I guess? I think if it was a bit more clear what "Managed hosting" means in th…

As I understand it, Dokploy Cloud [https://docs.dokploy.com/docs/core/cloud] makes the hosting "managed" by removing the need for Dokploy UI to be installed on your own VPS. With the free/open source version you need to host the UI yourself.

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by milliams »

maxloh wrote: post #17

There is one caveat, though: it is not open source as advertised. > In the event of a conflict, these provisions shall take precedence over those in the Apache License: > Restriction on Resale: The multi-node support, Docker Compose file support, Preview Deployments and Multi Server features cannot be sold or offered as a service by any party other than the copyright holder without prior written consent. > Modificati…

The author has seemed oblivious to the difference in past discussions - to the point of deleting issues asking for the description to be changed (https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/issues/82 - unfortunately not archived on Wayback).

The fact they're still advertising it as "Open source", even now is astonishing and are clearly just using it as a marketing point and are not interested in it in reality.

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by drchiu »

ewalk153 wrote: post #9

For personal projects, I’ve fallen for the simplicity of Kamal. Created to host Ruby in Rails apps from DHH and the team who run Hey and Basecamp, Kamal is web framework agnostic. The demo is hosting a go app. Works great on a Pi. https://kamal-deploy.org/

I enjoy using Kamal as well. It's simple enough for small teams to understand quickly and flexible enough to tinker down at the server level.

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by therealpygon »

milliams wrote: post #22
maxloh wrote: post #17

There is one caveat, though: it is not open source as advertised. > In the event of a conflict, these provisions shall take precedence over those in the Apache License: > Restriction on Resale: The multi-node support, Docker Compose file support, Preview Deployments and Multi Server features cannot be sold or offered as a service by any party other than the copyright holder without prior written consent. > Modificati…

The author has seemed oblivious to the difference in past discussions - to the point of deleting issues asking for the description to be changed ( https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/issues/82 - unfortunately not archived on Wayback). The fact they're still advertising it as "Open source", even now is astonishing and are clearly just using it as a marketing point and are not interested in it in reality.

As with many companies that claim to be “open source” while having excessively restrictive licenses and sometimes not even sharing source.

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by actionfromafar »

d1sxeyes wrote: post #19
diggan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shucks, I don't know about either so I'm guess I'm out of luck :) > Coolify is an open-source & self-hostable alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Vercel / etc. [...] on your own hardware; you only need an SSH connection So Coolify seems strictly non-managed, you manage the hosting itself. While the project in this submission seem to hint at being managed?

Both offer a monetised version where (basically) someone installs it on your server for you and takes care of updates etc. for you.

And Coolify seems to be actually open source.

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by taylodl »

Havoc wrote: post #23

Docker swarm underneath. Id rather not build on top of anything that is swarm. Nothing against it per se but just not confident in its longevity. I know people still have it deployed and seem happy but swarm subreddit has a post every two weeks

Maybe because swarm is simple and just works? What's there to really talk about?

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by diggan »

therealpygon wrote: post #25
milliams wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author has seemed oblivious to the difference in past discussions - to the point of deleting issues asking for the description to be changed ( https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/issues/82 - unfortunately not archived on Wayback). The fact they're still advertising it as "Open source", even now is astonishing and are clearly just using it as a marketing point and are not interested in it in reality.

As with many companies that claim to be “open source” while having excessively restrictive licenses and sometimes not even sharing source.

I think once we let Facebook/Meta get away with calling Llama "Open Source" and seemingly no one bats an eye, we kind of lost the battle about what "Open Source" means. It's not talking about something being available for you without signing an agreement, nor is it actually about source code, but it seems to basically be synonymous with "Freeware" these days.

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by surrTurr »

madeofpalk wrote: post #11
surrTurr wrote: post #3

Cool project, but the icon looks like DeepSeek [^1] [1]: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

Wait till you see Docker!

just because it's a whale, doesn't mean it looks similar

it looks a lot more like deepseek when you also consider the movement/form

Re: Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku

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Post by XajniN »

milliams wrote: post #22
maxloh wrote: post #17

There is one caveat, though: it is not open source as advertised. > In the event of a conflict, these provisions shall take precedence over those in the Apache License: > Restriction on Resale: The multi-node support, Docker Compose file support, Preview Deployments and Multi Server features cannot be sold or offered as a service by any party other than the copyright holder without prior written consent. > Modificati…

The author has seemed oblivious to the difference in past discussions - to the point of deleting issues asking for the description to be changed ( https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/issues/82 - unfortunately not archived on Wayback). The fact they're still advertising it as "Open source", even now is astonishing and are clearly just using it as a marketing point and are not interested in it in reality.

Does someone have a legal authority over the term “open source”?
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