I was able to get coolify running on a VPS

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There is still some work to be done if I'm going to rely on coolify, but I just had to say how relieved I am to finally get something resembling a PaaS working on my VPS.

Over the past week, I tried both caprover, and dokku and although things started off well, I was not able to get as far with them as I did with coolify.

caprover insists on being run as root and open to the world on part 80/443. Although it is possible to work around this by passing in a MAIN_NODE_IP_ADDRESS option, it still insisted on things like where the caprover data should be stored on the host as well as where the docker socket should be on the host. To add to the pain, it is hard to read logs because docker swarm does not preserve the logs of services that are not running.

dokku was equally as annoying to setup. Firstly, their UI cost almost $900 USD, which was just a big NOPE from me, but I didn't realize this until much later. Their documentation is not very clear on the order of setup, so although I got most of the docker setup running and was able to add an ssh key, it quickly became unclear what the next steps are, and without a UI, I had no idea if I even got it working well enough to be usable or missing something.

Overall, coolify outshines these two, and I hope you guys continue threading that fine line between configurability and user-friendly.