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Dokku and Alternatives

Comments primarily recommend, compare, and discuss self-hosted PaaS tools like Dokku, Caprover, Dokploy, and Coolify as Heroku alternatives for easy app deployment.

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charlieegan3 • Jul 26, 2015 • View on HN

You might find dokku or dokku-alt interesting.

hit8run • Jan 26, 2023 • View on HN

I use dokku. Works really well.

oulipo2 • Dec 4, 2025 • View on HN

I'm using Dokploy, would that be very similar, or quite different?

hardwaresofton • Jun 9, 2020 • View on HN

Check out Dokku[0][0]: https://github.com/dokku/dokku

throwaway77385 • Dec 4, 2025 • View on HN

How does this compare to something like Dokku?

xrd • Feb 8, 2021 • View on HN

Dokku is worthy of a look. Great support for buildpacks.

revendell_elf • Feb 11, 2020 • View on HN

How is it different than Dokku?

koshergweilo • Apr 7, 2024 • View on HN

I've had a lot of luck with dokku. It uses docker so it's more heavyweight, but it's super simple and scales really well

simplify • Feb 28, 2021 • View on HN

I can second caprover. Personally I find it easier to use than dokku. The admin ui is quite nice.

josegonzalez • Aug 27, 2020 • View on HN

Just curious, what about Dokku didn't meet your needs? I'm the current maintainer of the project, hence the question :)