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For anyone looking for a free alternative to this, check out: https://caprover.com/ https://caprover.com/ It has many of the same apps as Cloudron and is compl

by zapt02 7y ago

For anyone looking for a free alternative to this, check out: https://caprover.com/ https://caprover.com/ It has many of the same apps as Cloudron and is completely free. And you can of course host your own Dockerfiles on top of it. I think the pricing for Cloudron is way off. I'm not going to spend 5 dollars per month for a DigitalOcean droplet and then 30 dollars per month to host a few open-source apps on that Droplet. Especially since CapRover does 99% of this for free.

gramakri 7y ago
The target audience of caprover and cloudron is totally different. caprover is a PaaS. Cloudron lets you install ready to use apps like Ghost/GitLab/Discourse/OpenVPN etc. A person who knows how to deploy using docker and more importantly has the time to setup stuff securely, does not need either of these tools. Even there, people will argue why you need docker and why you cannot run with LXC. This goes as deep as you want to go :) As for the pricing, agreed that it might be out of reach for personal use. I think it really depends on what you get out of the product. Our target at the moment is primarily family/small businesses/IT teams. For example, a business runs website/file sharing/mail/chat/analytics/crm/forum on a droplet. The server would be around 20/month (4GB server) and then 30 on top of it. For personal use, all my stuff is on Cloudron (calendar/contacts/email/blogs/website/rss/media/docs/notes). I cannot imagine relying on a product which is 5/month for all my stuff. Besides, having complete control and owning your data is priceless. If you don't value that, I am not sure why one would self-host at all.