Comment by scottydelta

15 days ago

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.

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.