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

Dokku is a self-hosted PaaS — deploy apps with git push , just like Heroku, on your own server. What You Get for Free Git push deploy — git push dokku main = deployed Buildpacks — auto-detect language (Node, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.) Docker support — deploy any Dockerfile SSL — automatic Let's Encrypt certificates Databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB plugins Domains — custom domains with automatic routing Zero-downtime deploys — blue-green deployment built-in Process management — scale with dokku ps:scale app web=2 App management — dokku apps:create , dokku config:set Quick Start # On your VPS (Ubuntu) wget https://dokku.com/install.sh sudo bash install.sh # On your laptop git remote add dokku dokku@your-server:my-app git push dokku main # App deployed with SSL at https://my-app.your-domain.com Why Developers Switch from Heroku Heroku's free tier is dead and paid plans start at $7/dyno: $5/month — run 5-10 apps on one VPS No vendor lock-in — your server, your data Git push deplo