Hosting & deployment
Heroku: Heroku is a Salesforce-owned platform-as-a-service for deploying and running web apps. These tools do a similar job: indie picks from our Friday drops and open source projects, each one chosen by a person.
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4 alternatives to Heroku
Free to use, and you can host them yourself
Self-hostable open source alternative to Heroku, Netlify and Vercel
Best for Deploying apps and databases on your own servers with a PaaS UI
coolify.io ↗GitHub ↗Free self-hosted; paid managed Cloud
Open source self-hostable PaaS for apps and databases
Best for Deploying Docker and Compose apps to your own VPS
dokploy.com ↗GitHub ↗Free self-hosted; paid managed cloud
Docker-powered mini-Heroku you run on one server
Best for git-push deployments on a single VPS
dokku.com ↗GitHub ↗Free; optional paid Pro
Open source PaaS with one-click apps on Docker Swarm
Best for Self-hosting apps and databases with a web dashboard
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