Caprover

Overview

Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids Scalable, Free and Self-hosted PaaS! The project has 15K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under NOASSERTION.

Key Features

Source: GitHub README

• A [web] developer who does not like spending hours and days setting up a server, build tools, sending code to server, build it, get an SSL certificate, install it, update nginx over and over again.
• A developer who uses expensive services like Heroku, Microsoft Azure and etc. And is interested in reducing their cost by 50x (Heroku charges 250USD/month for their 2gb instance, the same server is 5$ on Hetzner!!)
• Someone who prefers to write more of showResults(getUserList()) and not much of $ apt-get install libstdc++6 > /dev/null
• A developer who likes installing MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB and etc on their server by selecting from a dropdown and clicking on install!
• How much server/docker/linux knowledge is required to set up a CapRover server? Answer: Knowledge of Copy & Paste!! Head over to “Getting Started” for information on what to copy & paste ;-)

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

apt, docker, mongodb, mysql, one click deploy, postgresql.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Replaces

Heroku

45 tools

Netlify

40 tools

Render

6 tools

Vercel

42 tools

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