Dokku Has a Free API: Your Own Heroku on a $5 VPS

Heroku charges $25/mo for one hobby dyno. Dokku gives you unlimited apps on a $5 VPS with the same git push workflow. What Is Dokku? Dokku is the smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen. It's an open-source Heroku alternative that runs on any Linux server. # Install on your VPS (Ubuntu) wget -NP . https://dokku.com/install/v0.34.x/bootstrap.sh sudo DOKKU_TAG=v0.34.8 bash bootstrap.sh The Heroku Workflow # On your server dokku apps:create my-app # On your local machine git remote add dokku [email protected]:my-app git push dokku main That's it. Dokku detects your language (Node, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.), builds it, and deploys it. Same buildpacks as Heroku. Configuration # Environment variables dokku config:set my-app DATABASE_URL=postgres://... dokku config:set my-app SECRET_KEY=my-secret # Domains dokku domains:add my-app myapp.com dokku domains:add my-app www.myapp.com # SSL (automatic Let's Encrypt) dokku letsencrypt:enable my-app # Scale dokku ps:scale my-app web=2 worker=