Comment by satvikpendem

20 days ago

If you like VPS, Hetzner with Dokploy. It works great, the UI has essentially all the features of Fly or Render that you'd use for deployment, like preview build URLs and environments.

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BoorishBears  20 days ago

Very close to the worst alternative for people who actually need Heroku, but it won't stop people from plugging it to death and back.

  • satvikpendem  20 days ago

    Eh, no, depends on why you used Heroku in the first place. Way back when, I used it because the UI was dead simple and it Just Worked™. If I can replicate that with a VPS and have a good UI around it that takes care of everything, it's functionally the same to me.

    • BoorishBears  20 days ago

      "Depends on what you used it for" applies to just about any platform.

      Realistically, self-hosting the PaaS defeats the purpose of a PaaS for the crowd Heroku was attracting.

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nextaccountic  20 days ago

Ok so I am researching what to use in this space - a Vercel-ish clone on cheap VPS - and, is Dokploy really the best option?

What do you think about Caprover? https://github.com/caprover/caprover

Or uh.. Dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku

Right now I am using Coolify but so far it has not been exactly reliable