Dokku
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 10, 2025first mention
May 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Now I deploy at my leisure with stuff like Dokku, or Kamal, directly on a 5 bucks VM”
“Dokku user for a decade here”
non Heroku/non Ruby developeron “Show HN: Mist – a lightweight, self-hosted PaaS”
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“A small VPS + LetsEncrypt + Dokku is a fantastic way to run personal side projects/hustles at minimal cost.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Dokku supports Kubernetes as a scheduler, utilizing k3s in the background.”
Dokku maintaineron “Ask HN: How do you self-host your apps?”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: How do you self-host your apps? 2 mentions
- An Update on Heroku 1 mention
- Tuning Semantic Search on Jfmm.net 1 mention
- Show HN: Mist – a lightweight, self-hosted PaaS 1 mention
- 10 Years of Let's Encrypt 1 mention
Data: dokku.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“Dokku: Great, but locked us to single servers and required managing SSH access for teams.”
“Now I deploy at my leisure with stuff like Dokku, or Kamal, directly on a 5 bucks VM”
“easy to run it on my Dokku installation”
“Dokku user for a decade here”
“A small VPS + LetsEncrypt + Dokku is a fantastic way to run personal side projects/hustles at minimal cost.”