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Coolify: Your Own Vercel-Like Hosting, Minus the Price Tag

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Vercel, Netlify, and Railway are convenient. But the bill at the end of the month makes you wonder: what if I just want to deploy my projects without giving away half my budget? The answer is Coolify.

Coolify is a self-hosted Platform as a Service. It runs on your own server and provides an interface suspiciously similar to Vercel: connect a Git repository, hit Deploy — and it just works.

Self-Hosted Monitoring: Building a Stack from Open-Source Tools

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You need to keep an eye on your servers, services, and websites. But paying Datadog $15 per host per month is painful, especially when you have a handful of VPS instances and a dozen self-hosted applications. The good news: an open-source monitoring stack can be assembled in an hour and covers 90% of an average project’s needs.

In this guide, we’ll assemble a stack: Prometheus (metrics), Grafana (dashboards), Loki (logs), Node Exporter (system metrics), and Uptime Kuma (website status). Everything in Docker Compose, everything with persistence, everything with alerts.

Coolify: Your Own Vercel in 5 Minutes — Full Review

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Coolify: Your Own PaaS on Your Server

Coolify is an open-source platform that turns any server into a personal Vercel or Netlify. You connect a VPS via SSH, and Coolify takes care of deployment, HTTPS, monitoring, and database management.

What You Can Deploy

Coolify supports a wide range of applications and services:

Static sites — Hugo, Next.js, Astro, SvelteKit
Server applications — Node.js, Python, Go, PHP (Laravel), Ruby on Rails
Docker images — any Dockerfile and docker-compose
Databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis (one-click launch)
Ready-made services — n8n, WordPress, Ghost, MinIO, and dozens more

How It Works

Coolify installs via Docker itself and manages other services through the Docker API. The interface is clean and intuitive: project → environment → service. For each service, you can configure a domain, SSL via Let’s Encrypt, environment variables, and health checks.