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Self-hosted Heroku for the Hetzner box — push-to-deploy, automatic HTTPS, scheduled Postgres backups from a UI.
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What it is
A self-hosted platform-as-a-service you install on your own server: push-to-deploy from Git, automatic HTTPS certificates, environment variables, logs and scheduled database backups, all from a web interface.
Why it matters
This is the wildcard, and it is here because of arithmetic. Across three editions the radar has now suggested a dozen self-hosted services, and each one you install is another container to renew a certificate for, another database to remember to back up, another thing that fails silently at 3am. That burden lands entirely on one person who would rather be doing marketing. Coolify collapses it into one screen — deploys, TLS, logs and, crucially, scheduled Postgres backups you configure once. The honest caveat is that it becomes a single point of failure, so do not migrate Grasppy into it first. Put the next thing you deploy behind it, live with it for a fortnight, and move the important things only once you trust it.
- Scheduled database and volume backups from a UI — the thing solo founders skip until it hurts
- Automatic HTTPS renewal across every service, which removes a whole category of outage
- Apache-2.0 with a large, active community and frequent releases
- Wants around 2GB of RAM for itself — real money on a Hetzner box already running two apps
- Becomes a single point of failure: if Coolify breaks, everything it manages is harder to reach
- PHP/Laravel is another runtime in your life, even though you never write any of it
Install on the VPS with the one-line script from coolify.io.
