Dokploy Has a Free Self-Hosted Deployment Platform — Here's How to Use It

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Vercel is expensive at scale. Coolify is great but complex. Dokploy is the newest self-hosted deployment platform — simple, beautiful, and manages Docker + databases effortlessly.

What Is Dokploy?

Dokploy is a free, open-source deployment platform. It simplifies deploying applications and databases on any VPS with Docker — think of it as a modern, lighter Coolify alternative.

Setup

curl -sSL https://dokploy.com/install.sh | sh

Visit http://your-server:3000 and create your admin account.

Features

Application Deployment

Docker Compose — deploy multi-container apps
Nixpacks — auto-detect and build any language
Dockerfile — custom builds
Git integration — auto-deploy on push
Preview deployments — per-PR environments

Database Management

One-click deployment of:

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB
MongoDB, Redis
With automatic backups to S3

Monitoring

Real-time logs per container
Resource usage (CPU, RAM, disk)
Health checks and auto-restart
Notification alerts (Slack, Discord, email)

Why Dokploy

Feature	Dokploy	Coolify	CapRover
UI quality	Modern	Good	Dated
Docker Compose	Yes	Yes	Limited
Multi-server	Yes	Yes	Yes
Backups	S3 built-in	S3 built-in	Manual
Preview envs	Yes	Yes	No
Traefik	Built-in	Built-in	nginx