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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 SomeUserName432 »

W6zVktFA wrote: post #43

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 ma…

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

I tried using coolify and I gave up due to every ~third redis connection failing to connect.

No idea what was up with that, ended up going with CapRover.

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

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Post by zachlatta »

shash7 wrote: post #60
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…

Had the exact same experience. Incredibly clunky UI/UX. For docker-compose, I had to create a specific one for Coolify because it goes and does its own magic. Tried Dokploy(similar service), better UI but lacking in docs. In the right hands, these products could be so much better.

Dokploy unfortunately isn’t nearly as mature as Coolify.

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

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Post by zachlatta »

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…

FYI that I did a bounty for database SSL connections and they implemented it, so they should be live now!

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

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Post by zachlatta »

I highly recommend Coolify. I evaluated every option when looking for a Heroku alternative, and Coolify is clearly the best as long as you don’t absolutely require zero downtime deploys.

We are hosting over 100 services on it for https://hackclub.com and it’s been great. We’re 3 months in now.

The key is to think about it as a GUI on top of Docker, not as a fully managed solution.

It’s one of those PHP apps that’s weirdly reliable. I see lots of other comments recommending Dokku / Dokploy / others. None of those options are nearly as mature as Coolify in my experience.

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

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Post by scottydelta »

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 for all volumes. Now you can backup coolify data and this container volumes folder.

You can assign a wildcard subdomain to it and it can then assign subdomains easily to any project with ssl. Pretty nifty.

Think of coolify as ui for docker and other network things on server. I use lazydocker to manage containers via command line too on server when coolify won't bend to my will. So both combined together gives a solid control and ease.

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

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Post by nine_k »

CoolCold wrote: post #84
nine_k wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I have much more peace of mind when it's not in chroot but even better inside systemd unit and all that ReadonlyPath and capabilities applied. In the ideal case network access beyond localhost and may be db is denied for greater safety

Sounds quite a bit like a container!

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

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Post by rodolphoarruda »

zachlatta wrote: post #95

I highly recommend Coolify. I evaluated every option when looking for a Heroku alternative, and Coolify is clearly the best as long as you don’t absolutely require zero downtime deploys. We are hosting over 100 services on it for https://hackclub.com and it’s been great. We’re 3 months in now. The key is to think about it as a GUI on top of Docker, not as a fully managed solution. It’s one of those PHP apps that’s we…

FYI your clubs directory is down. (at least for me)

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

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Post by zachlatta »

rodolphoarruda wrote: post #98
zachlatta wrote: post #95

I highly recommend Coolify. I evaluated every option when looking for a Heroku alternative, and Coolify is clearly the best as long as you don’t absolutely require zero downtime deploys. We are hosting over 100 services on it for https://hackclub.com and it’s been great. We’re 3 months in now. The key is to think about it as a GUI on top of Docker, not as a fully managed solution. It’s one of those PHP apps that’s we…

FYI your clubs directory is down. (at least for me)

Thank you so much! Will investigate.

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

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Post by samfundev »

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…

Coolify does support zero downtime deployments, but the documentation isn't live yet: https://github.com/coollabsio/documentation-coolify/blob/640...
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