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Exactly. Dokku looks great but what is the value of using it over "run your container" platforms like Google Cloud Run, Digital Ocean App Platform, or Fargate.
by spiralpolitik 2y ago
Exactly.
Dokku looks great but what is the value of using it over "run your container" platforms like Google Cloud Run, Digital Ocean App Platform, or Fargate.
- pastorhudson 2y agoOne benefit for me was that a vps with 2vcors and 2-4gig of ram is about the same price as one of these app engine services. So I can run 3 or 4 dokku apps including Postgres, redis, memcache connected to them on my own vps and still have margin when inspiration strikes. I moved a production app from heroku to dokku and saved hundreds a month and still got tons and tons more compute.
- hmaxdml 2y agoIn terms of money it might end up cheaper for the infra itself (especially if it runs in your garage) In term of your personal time, well, you'll not grow a business on it without hiring people to maintain it or spend a lot of time doing devops