Stop renting your infrastructure
The open-source Heroku alternative.
2025-11-29
Cloud providers are essentially landlords. They’re nice until they hike the rent or change the locks.
We all love the convenience of Vercel or Heroku. git push and chill. But that convenience comes with a “usage-based” price tag that scales faster than your revenue.
“Your code is yours. Your data is yours. Your infrastructure should be too.”
The Solution: Coolify
Coolify is an open-source & self-hostable Heroku alternative.
It gives you the polished PaaS experience on your own hardware. You buy a cheap VPS (Hetzner, DigitalOcean, whatever), install Coolify, and suddenly you have a dashboard to deploy apps, databases, and services without the vendor lock-in.
How it works
You don’t need a DevOps degree. You just need a server with SSH access.
- Get a VPS. $5/month is usually enough to start.
- Run the script.
curl -fsSL https://cdn.coollabs.io/coolify/install.sh | sudo bash- Deploy. Connect your GitHub, push code, done.
Why it matters
Privacy and control. Your data stays on your server. No hidden costs, no feature gates, no “contact sales for enterprise pricing”.
If you want the ease of the cloud but the prices of bare metal, this is it.