Dokku Has a Free PaaS — Your Own Heroku in 5 Minutes on a $5 VPS

Dokku is the smallest PaaS implementation — a Heroku-like experience on your own server. What You Get for Free Git push deploy — git push dokku main and you're live Buildpacks — Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java auto-detected Docker support — deploy any Dockerfile SSL — automatic Let's Encrypt certificates Plugins — PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch Zero-downtime deploys — rolling restarts by default App scaling — dokku ps:scale app web=2 worker=1 Custom domains — map any domain to any app Quick Start # On a fresh Ubuntu VPS ($5/mo DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.) wget -NP . https://dokku.com/install.sh sudo DOKKU_TAG = v0.34.9 bash install.sh # On your local machine git remote add dokku dokku@your-server:myapp git push dokku main # Add a database dokku postgres:create mydb dokku postgres:link mydb myapp Why Developers Choose It Heroku killed their free tier. Railway/Render have usage limits. Dokku: One-time $5/mo for a VPS — run unlimited apps Heroku buildpacks