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• Show HN: Wiederhol – GitHub for Checklists

  Android users can install https://wiederhol.com/ as a PWA (Progressive Web Application). Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, https://dokku.com/ for hosting on Hetzner, https://pwabuilder.com for the iOS app. PS: Wiederhol means 'repeat' (imperative verb form) in German. - Source: Hacker News / 27 days ago

• Self-Hosting like it's 2025

  I am going to continue to stan for dokku for hosting web apps, docker images included https://dokku.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Deploy a NestJS Application with Dokku

  In this article, we will deploy a NestJS application using Dokku (https://dokku.com). - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Hosting your own PaaS: Open-Source Tools to Help You Exit the Cloud!

  # download the installation script Wget -NP . https://dokku.com/bootstrap.sh # run the installer Sudo DOKKU_TAG=v0.35.10 bash bootstrap.sh # configure your server domain Dokku domains:set-global your-domain.com # add your ssh key to the dokku user PUBLIC_KEY="your-public-key-contents-here" Echo "$PUBLIC_KEY" | dokku ssh-keys:add admin # create your first app Dokku apps:create test-app. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Stop Paying Vercel: Self-Host Unlimited NextJS Apps for $19/month

  Use GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Dokku or any CI/CD tool you prefer. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What selfhosted PaaS would you recommend?

  I recently acquired a decently large server (512 GB ram, 64 cores), and am looking into self-hosting some web applications -- Invidious, file server, proxy, to name a few. I was recommended Dokku[1], and after searching I also found several more similar products, like Coolify, DokDeploy, CapRover. I'm pretty new to doing this, so I would like to ask what experience you've had with these. [1]: https://dokku.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Deploy multiple apps on a single VPS with Docker

  Dokku is open source. Its focus lies on making deployments easy with a simple "git push". The user interface is a CLI. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Does Your Startup Need Complex Cloud Infrastructure?

  > For all the people who are saying you don’t need X and Y - what is the simplest way to deploy a web app using TLS on a VPS/VM? Depends on your defintion of simplest. In terms of set-up probably someting like https://dokku.com/ . It's a simple self-hosted version of herokku, you can be up and running in literally minutes and because its compatable with herokku you can re-use lots of github action/ other build... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Reclaim the Stack

  It seems like a nice Kubernetes setup! But I don’t see how this is comparable to something like Heroku – the complexity is way higher from what I see. If you’re looking for something simpler, try https://dokku.com/ (the OG self-hosted Heroku) or https://lunni.dev/ (which I’ve been working on for a while, with a docker-compose based workflow instead). (I've also heard good things about coolify.io!). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site

  Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things: Caprover (https://caprover.com/) Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Why is kubernetes source code an order of magnitude larger than other container orchestrators?

  Considering other orchestration tools like dokku, dcos, deis, flynn, docker swarm, etc.. Kubernetes is no where near to them in terms of lines of code, on an average those tools are around 100k-200k lines of code. Source: over 2 years ago

• A selfhosted Heroku clone on your Kubernetes cluster

  Other interesting projects to also follow: * Caprover * Dokku. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to set up HTTPS/SSL/TLS for a .dev domain, django/wagtail, Nginx, and docker/docker-compose

  If I could make a recommendation, it would be to give Dokku a try. (Disclaimer: not affiliated, but like the project so much I sponsor it. My opinions are biased towards it.). Source: almost 3 years ago

• What are the best and most affordable .NET 6 web app hosting options?

  My next favorite option is to host on a DigitalOcean VM. You can use Dokku to get your own mini-Heroku PaaS, or manage the VM yourself (following Microsoft's documentation). You can get a $100 60-day credit from a referral link - A good way to get started. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Ask HN: Where to deploy a Docker container easily?

  Dokku is another option if you are looking for something open source that you can run on a VM on any cloud. https://github.com/dokku/dokku. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Am I missing something? Why is it SOO hard to get a Node JS backend Typescript FE site online with a custom domain?

  You can spin up Dokku which acts as as self-hosted Heroku, and you can then have as many backends running as you want on that $5/month instance, assuming they all fit in memory. Source: about 3 years ago

• Green energy Rails host?

  There's a few alternatives that you can use, Dokku has been around for quite awhile. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Beginner web developer here: I'm already using Linux as a daily driver and I'm not the biggest fan of using products like Heroku or Netlify. Is using Digital Ocean/running your own server still a thing? Is it that much harder to set up for an aspiring web developer?

  Personally my advice would be to experiment with a cheap DigitalOcean instance and then use Dokku initially. That way you'll have a machine that you can SSH in to and tinker with, but you'll also have the simplicity of a Heroku style workflow for when you "just want to get something deployed". (not to mention it's also quite a convenient/user friendly way to begin using Docker for deployments). Source: almost 4 years ago

• Hosting aspnet core applications

  My personal favorite option, though, is DigitalOcean VM. You can use Dokku to get your own mini-Heroku PaaS, or manage the VM yourself (following Microsoft's documentation). You can get anywhere from $10 to $100 in credit from a referral link - this will last you a year and a half with a small VM. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Launch HN: Porter (YC S20) – Open-source Heroku in your own cloud

  I've self-hosted Dokku on Digital Ocean before with decent success: https://github.com/dokku/dokku. It's pretty nice for the scale of pet projects. - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Open Application Model – An open standard for defining cloud native apps

  K8s is one of many options to collaborate and scale applications and for many organizations it is not the best option. Oracle and Alibaba building a large abstraction on top of kubernetes, to do something kubernetes was not designed to do (though capable of doing), is not the direction I personally believe distributed systems development should standardize around. There are tons of self-hosted PaaS options that... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago