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Dokku https://github.com/dokku/dokku Right now I am using Coolify but so far it has not been exactly reliable", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Update on Heroku"}, {"id": 750635859, "item_id": 46914741, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914741", "by": "culi", "date": "2026-02-06", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "CapRover (TypeScript) (2017) https://github.com/caprover/caprover", "excerpt": "I think there's a couple decent alternatives out there: https://alternativeto.net/software/heroku/ There are also a lot of cool \"self-hosted Heroku\" alternatives - Coolify (PHP) (2020) https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify - Dokku (Go) (2013) https://github.com/dokku/dokku - Dokploy (TypeScript) (2024) https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy - CapRover (TypeScript) (2017) https://github.com/caprover/caprover - Komodo (Rus", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "An Update on Heroku"}]}