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I'm always on the hunt for a better way to host my side projects. As I've mentioned in a previous post, I...
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I look forward to that more detailed look at CapRover and Rancher - I have often had the same thought with regards to 0-profit side projects. Right now I have maintained the free tier of various PaaS but like the idea of looking into self hosted alternatives while still maintaining the separation of concerns that PaaS brings.
Thanks for the post. Super helpful, as I was thinking yesterday about how to reduce costs for my side apps. I will definitely try Dokku on DO.
I was using Dokku for a while but hit an issue. When I remove an app, Dokku wouldn't clean it up correctly. Going to the subdomain for the old app would redirect to some other running app. It was very odd. I decided to move over to Caprover and I've found it very nice. I do miss the buildpacks because it let me ignore learning Docker. However I've bitten the bullet and learned enough docker to get my app running and now I feel even more platform independent as a result. I find the "one click apps" of caprover super useful. It can be a replacement for the way Dokku manages mysql (and others) and the backup story isn't as good.
Anyway, it's a tradeoff but I've been using Caprover for a few months now to power my side project and also run a few one-click-apps very well (jenkins, miniflux) and have been very satisfied.
Love the detailed post. Thank you!
Great article, thank you!
I'm trying Tsuru: github.com/tsuru/tsuru
Oh right, Tsuru, I completely forgot about that project. Are you liking it so far?
Caprover looks promising