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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 pier25 »

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 Vercel but this ain't it.

Ended up concluding that if I wanted to run/deploy apps on my own VPS I'd just use Kamal or Dokku. Both have zero downtime deploys, certbot, proxy, etc.

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

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Post by W6zVktFA »

Coolify unfortunately didn't click with me, and I had a bad experience with a Redis database, so I stopped using it.

I would recommend Elestio (eles[dot]io) as an alternative which isn't open source, or self-hostable, but met my primary goal of drastically reducing cloud costs. And you can bring your own cloud/server, though I'm choosing to also rent from Hetzner through Elestio.

I'm running two redis databases on machines with 3 cpus, 4gb ram, and 80gb storage for about $80 total (the machines are billed hourly, but you get the max monthly bill up front).

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

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Post by frainfreeze »

huksley wrote: post #22

Remember all those horror stories about ridiculous bills from public cloud providers? I also got $4.5k bill once for simple mistake on AWS. So I decided to build Vercel for your own servers - DollarDeploy, which manages servers and deploys NextJS apps (without docker) and docker compose configs to your server. We don't have self hosted or open source but cloud version starts from $1/mo

I m curious, how do you deploy Next.js apps w/o docker? Self hosted nodejs? Also how much do you lag behind vercel releases?

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

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Post by frainfreeze »

crudbug wrote: post #24

I was also looking at alternatives - K8S-based - https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero https://github.com/pluralsh/plural DCR-based - https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify https://github.com/dokku/dokku/ https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy https://github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwave Most of these projects are maintained by a single maintainer; for business critical apps look elsewh…

There is also piku, sort of a tiny dokku; https://github.com/piku/piku

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

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Post by password4321 »

crudbug wrote: post #24

I was also looking at alternatives - K8S-based - https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero https://github.com/pluralsh/plural DCR-based - https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify https://github.com/dokku/dokku/ https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy https://github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwave Most of these projects are maintained by a single maintainer; for business critical apps look elsewh…

The most recent significant discussion of this topic (271 comments 7 months ago) with anecdotal recommendations of several of these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358020 Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform

Which was nearly immediately preceded by a smaller (62 comments) Coolify discussion also on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356239 Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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

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Post by turbocon »

ffsm8 wrote: post #37
amanzi wrote: 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.

Btw, did you know about unattended upgrades? Just curious as the stated reason for the stated reason would become almost unnecessary with that https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

I maybe the only person on here that had no idea this is a thing, but thank you this is incredible

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

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Post by nine_k »

frainfreeze wrote: post #44
huksley wrote: post #22

Remember all those horror stories about ridiculous bills from public cloud providers? I also got $4.5k bill once for simple mistake on AWS. So I decided to build Vercel for your own servers - DollarDeploy, which manages servers and deploys NextJS apps (without docker) and docker compose configs to your server. We don't have self hosted or open source but cloud version starts from $1/mo

I m curious, how do you deploy Next.js apps w/o docker? Self hosted nodejs? Also how much do you lag behind vercel releases?

What may be mysterious here? You can have multiple versions of Node installed if needed, and every app brings in the entire dependency tree, isolated from everything else.

If you trust your apps enough, you don't even need chroot.

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

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Post by nine_k »

jbaber wrote: post #7
colesantiago wrote: post #6

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.

As long as you "own" the domain name yourself, so can point anywhere, what's the problem with using a platform and expecting to have to move someday?

Money, I suppose? Heroku is notoriously trivial to use, and notoriously expensive for the amount of storage and compute you get.

A semi-successful but not heavily monetized side project on Heroku could cost you an arm and a leg, while running the same thing on some Hetzner box under Dokku, along with a couple of others, may be not that much noticeable.

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

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

I’m happy using coolify. I self host on my Mac Studio as the control plane and deploy to digital ocean. I’m currently looking to host in Canada instead, but not having much luck. I considered hosting my deployments locally as well, I don’t get much traffic, but haven’t made a decision yet.

Overall it’s good software that just does what it says it will. My needs aren’t particularly complex, but they aren’t totally trivial either. It does a great job orchestrating things without me needing to worry much about the inner workings.

I’ve done these things manually for a long time and I would be fine continuing to do that, but… I’ve got a job, kids, other hobbies, etc. It has been great to have a simple control plane to automate a lot of it for me. I find it makes it more likely for me to build and deploy something in the first place, which is what really counts for me at the end of the day.

The discord has also been a good resource. They’re very helpful and the vibe is very positive in my experience. It has been, and still seems like an ecosystem worth investing in.

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