My experience:
- Dokku - too much shell scripting and you forget all the commands you typed after 1 year.
- Dokploy - you need to install it on your host. So it makes it difficult to switch to a bigger host.
So now I am actively developing a new platform which solves all this - DollarDeploy.
It makes it easy to deploy app from GitHub repo to the server of your choice, and automatically generate HTTPs cert, manage hosts, backups etc for $1/app/month.
Would be nice if you give it a try and provide feedback!
I wrote a Nodejs application to do this for me. It’s a personal project that serves as a dashboard for spawning web servers and docker compose instances. I am the only user of it so it’s probably not stable. The UI displays in a browser.
If you want, give skate a try ( https://github.com/skateco/skate ). I built it out of the frustration of having to learn the custom deploy syntax of all these other alternatives, instead it uses kubernetes manifests and is multi host.