Coolify
Open-source, self-hostable alternative to Heroku and Vercel
Overview
Coolify brings the deployment experience of Vercel and Heroku to your own servers. Install it on any VPS, connect your GitHub repos, and deploy applications with the same git-push workflow - but on infrastructure you own and control, at a fraction of the cost.
For teams paying hundreds of dollars per month on platform-as-a-service providers, Coolify offers dramatic cost savings. A $20/month VPS can host multiple applications, databases, and services that would cost ten times that on managed platforms. The trade-off is that you manage the server.
Coolify handles the operational aspects that make self-hosting practical: automatic SSL certificates, Docker-based deployments, backup management, and server monitoring. You maintain the server; Coolify manages the deployment pipeline.
Key Features
Self-Hostable
Deploy on any VPS - DigitalOcean, Hetzner, AWS, etc.
Git Deployments
Push-to-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
One-Click Services
Deploy databases, Redis, and 100+ services instantly
Auto SSL
Let's Encrypt certificates managed automatically
Docker Support
Deploy any Dockerfile or Docker Compose project
Backups
Automated database backups to S3-compatible storage
Why We Recommend Coolify
Coolify is our recommendation for teams that want to reduce hosting costs without giving up developer experience. For applications that do not need edge deployment, self-hosting with Coolify can save thousands per year.