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Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

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Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

#81
Everyone's listing their favorites in this space, so I'll list mine, Cosmos Cloud. Been solid so far for me. Even has no trouble with more complex docker compose-based applications like KASM workspaces (https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/kasm / this does a docker inside docker sort of thing)

Pasting the website instead of the GitHub as the installation instructions are more up to date on the main site:

https://cosmos-cloud.io/

Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

#82

I get the appeal, but am also horrified at the “let’s pipe scripts to bash with sudo,” and the lack of visibility into what the DB is doing. I am a huge proponent of running your own, but along with that comes a responsibility to know what you’re doing. If you don’t know how to harden a Linux box on your own, frankly you have no business hosting anything on it. Spin up a VM and learn from your mistakes first. Similar…

I agree with this point completely and have been maintaining at least a few linux servers for many years now. However, I never feel completely comfortable about it because it is not my primary responsibility and I know the target is always moving. If you have any good resources to recommend for current best practices I'm sure they would be useful for me as well as anyone deploying this kind of tool.

Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

#83

If you're self hosting, IMO following Vercel is not the model. Use KEDA and K8s, and if you need compute at the edge lean into Cloudflare. That way you're staying standardized, and your vendor lock in is for best in class edge support.

K8s for APIs and job processing, and CF workers for hosting sites at the edge is kind of the dream for me right now. Have you used their new-ish VPC networking to handle secure networking between the two?

https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudfl...

Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

#84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you suggesting K8S is free of leaky abstractions?

I'm suggesting for this case it's closer to ground truth than a hand rolled Vercel clone, because it's been battle tested and tweaked HEAVILY.

Containers on top of K8S is radically less ground truthy than this project, and you say heavily tweaked like it’s a good thing. I doubt there is a single person alive who understands even half of all of those tweaks.

Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

#85
post #83

If you're self hosting, IMO following Vercel is not the model. Use KEDA and K8s, and if you need compute at the edge lean into Cloudflare. That way you're staying standardized, and your vendor lock in is for best in class edge support.

K8s for APIs and job processing, and CF workers for hosting sites at the edge is kind of the dream for me right now. Have you used their new-ish VPC networking to handle secure networking between the two? https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudfl...

I have done a good amount of integration work with cloudflare in zero trust military environments, I used Cloudflare tunnels to do edge integration in a seamless way for services, if you need more flexibility (zero trust clients and integrations) Warp is the way to go.

The pattern I like is to shard customer data in D1+R2 based on a customer specific DO, and have that front your core services via tunnels, then have a shared state database fronted by hypertunnel. I like KEDA scaling of modular monoliths with Cloudflare containers as a burst fallback if SLAs are in danger of going red, it gives you resilience and scalability without boxing you into cloud specifics, and if you're going to be married to one cloud provider it should be Cloudflare, if they go down it's gonna be an internet wide thing.

Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

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Vercel alternatives are getting traction and relevance after Vercel and CEO controversies like last weeks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416353

I have a persistent feeling that Pro-Paliz people who have those kinds of reactions to a famous X who went to Israel/met a Prime Minister/met a Jew or whatever, operate in a completely different reality, with their large parts of brain activity completely overwhelmed with emotions of pure hate ( that probably comes from untreated trauma, mental illness). Here we have people who use Intel, Nvidia chips that are develo…

> I have a persistent feeling..,

> It's so pathetic and sad. But I also understand it's all emotion and that some people live through their lives based on that.

It does seems it's all emotion on your end. Projecting much? Tried empathy for a change?

> OpenAI who just signed a contract with Nubeius(Israeli company)

I bet there'd be controversy on that too if attempts to raise awareness weren't even further buried by puppets.

Re: Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify

#89

I like it but I always miss features or defaults like: - internal network only with edge nodes (i.e tail scale out the box, + some edge nodes) - option to deploy on multiple servers to scale with super simple non k8s approach.

> - internal network only with edge nodes (i.e tail scale out the box, + some edge nodes) Can you help me understand that? > - option to deploy on multiple servers to scale with super simple non k8s approach. I'm working on that, allowing you to manage remote nodes from a single /dev/push instance.

> Can you help me understand that?

Like 10 nodes behind tailscale/wireguard in a private network, with only 2 nodes where you have a port open on 80/443, those are exposed to the public network. The rest of the nodes are all private like db, redis, etc etc.

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