Dokploy
Hacker ApprovedRanked 6 of 19 deployment tools by recommenders
Open source platform that deploys apps and databases to your own VPS with a clean interface, giving Heroku-style workflows without the hosting fees.
Open source platform that deploys apps and databases to your own VPS with a clean interface, giving Heroku-style workflows without the hosting fees.
22 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 19
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 86%
Recommended in 9 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 19 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 6.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 9 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Comparable to Heroku-style platforms
“open source PaaS software on-par with what VC companies offer (dokploy, coolify, or komodo)”
Comment from 20 Jun 2026 in “Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?” “Buy a cheap VPS and use something like Coolify, Dokploy, or Dokku if you don't need a UI”
Comment from 26 Dec 2025 in “Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?” “VPS + Dokploy gives you just as much functionality with an additional performance boost”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Railway Global Outage” - Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “An Update on Heroku”
- Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “Don't rent the cloud, own instead”
- Comment from 10 Feb 2026 in “Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'”
Strong UI and UX
“the UI has essentially all the features of Fly or Render that you'd use for deployment”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “An Update on Heroku” “it's very flexible and allows me to setup my sites how I need”
Comment from 11 Feb 2026 in “Railway Global Outage” “Hands down the best UX for delivering apps & databases.”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud” - Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “An Update on Heroku”
- Comment from 16 Oct 2026 in “What I self-host”
- Comment from 7 Feb 2026 in “An Update on Heroku”
Easy setup and deployment on VPS
“Super easy to set up and maintain for tons of little side projects that don't require tons of resources.”
Comment from 5 May 2026 in “Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?” “I use dokploy locally to manage all my VPSs + home server. Truly good stuff”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “We moved Railway's front end off Next.js. Builds went from 10 minutes to under 2” “tools like Dokploy that make deployment across different VPS extremely easy”
Comment from 23 Apr 2026 in “I Am Building a Cloud” - Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?”
Better than predecessors like Dokku
“It's much better than it's predecessors like Dokku, CapRover, etc.”
Comment from 19 Mar 2026 in “Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers” “This is actually better than what they had before”
Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “We are updating Dokploy's Open Source license”
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See all 19 deployment tools, rankedWhat people said
29 of the 34 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I prefer the interface for Dokploy”
“I've made it easy for myself to deploy new projects using Dokploy”
“use Dokploy which handled most of it AFAICT”
“open source PaaS software on-par with what VC companies offer (dokploy, coolify, or komodo)”
“I prefer this even if it's not European”
“Super easy to set up and maintain for tons of little side projects that don't require tons of resources.”
“Hands down the best UX for delivering apps & databases.”
“tools like Dokploy that make deployment across different VPS extremely easy”
“The tools nowadays for managing small hosted solutions is absolutely amazing.”
“I use dokploy locally to manage all my VPSs + home server. Truly good stuff”
“I use Dokploy instead but the rest are good”
“Coolify & Dokploy are not designed for AI Agent auto deploy”
“Dokploy is pretty good solution overall.”
“It's much better than it's predecessors like Dokku, CapRover, etc.”
“Dokploy is another good one.”
“it's very flexible and allows me to setup my sites how I need”
“VPS + Dokploy gives you just as much functionality with an additional performance boost”
“run open-source PaaS like Coolify, Dokploy, Caprover, etc.”
“for personal projects I just self-host an instance of forgejo with dokploy”
“Dokploy's is far more modern”
“VPS with Dokploy or Coolify and so on have the same UX”
“the correct software on top handles it all for you”
“Very close to the worst alternative for people who actually need Heroku”
“the UI has essentially all the features of Fly or Render that you'd use for deployment”
“VPS such as Hetzner with Dokploy, very similar feature set”
“This is actually better than what they had before”
“Buy a cheap VPS and use something like Coolify, Dokploy, or Dokku if you don't need a UI”
“install something like Dokploy (PaaS), configure Traefik”
“coolify/dokploy comes to mind and it exactly do that way”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.