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Products that do what Another PaaS Alternative to Heroku – moCloud.io does

Some folks at Tokyo just launched a Heroku alternative PaaS based on Docker containers called moCloud, what do you think? https://mocloud.io

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    Dokku90

    Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash

    2015

  5. 5PC

    Hi HN! Porter Cloud (https://porter.run/porter-cloud) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku, but we make it easy for you to migrate to AWS, Azure, or GCP when you're ready. Like Heroku, Porter takes care of a lot of generic DevOps work for you (like setting up CI/CD, containerizing your applications, autoscaling, SSL certificates, setting up a reverse proxy) and lets you deploy your apps with a few clicks — saving you a lot of time while developing. However, as you probably know, there’s a downside: platforms like this become constraining if and when your app…

    2024

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    Hello HN! I've been working on Canine for about a year now. It started when I was sick of paying the overhead of using stuff like Heroku, Render, Fly, etc to host some web apps that I've built. At one point I was paying over $400 a month for hosting these in the cloud. Last year I moved all my stuff to Hetzner. For a 4GB machine, the cost of various providers: Heroku = $260 Fly.io = $65 Render = $85 Hetzner = $4 (This problem gets a lot worse when you need > 4GB) The only downside of using Hetzner is that there isn’t a super straightforward way to do stuff like: - DNS management / SSL…

    2025 · github.com

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    Heroku115

    Cloud application platform

    2014

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    The open source alternative to Vercel, Heroku and Netlify

    2024

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    Coolify425

    An open-source & self-hostable Heroku, Netlify alternative

    2022

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    ohai! I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers. It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation, configuration, and maintenance. Its simple design makes it easy to learn, and its low memory footprint should make it especially attractive during these times of RAMageddon. If this has piqued your interest, do check it out, along with its easy-to-follow Getting Started guide. In any event, have a nice day! =)

    Apr 2026 · lightwhale.asklandd.dk

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    Flynn319

    Open source Heroku on your own servers

    2016

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    Ptah.sh37

    Host Any Docker Image on Your Servers with SSL and Backups

    2024

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    Heroku CI208

    Continuous Integration from Heroku

    2017

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    Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS/GCP/DO)

    2021

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    Dokploy203

    Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel & Netlify

    2024

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    We moved our expensive long-running jobs to Hetzner while keeping the web nodes on good-old Heroku. And we took the chance to move the jobs back to the monolith from very difficult to maintain Fargate microservices. Kamal from Basecamp enabled us to do this in a straightforward way

    2023 · happyscribe.com

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    For the last month or so I've been working on bewCloud, and today I'm making its source code public and open! Right now, the Dashboard (URLs + freeform notes), News (RSS/Atom/JSON feeds), and Contacts (CardDav) are working. If you have any suggestions, comments, or recommendations, I'd love to hear it. Thank you for your attention and kindness. I really appreciate it!

    2024 · bewcloud.com

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    A browser-based serverless platform that is open-source

    2021

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    As a self-hoster myself, I've been missing some of the nicer features for other PaaS and wanted to have them for my own side projects, so i set out to build a custom platform as a service that is self-hosted. Today after a whole year of working on it and using it for all my projects, I put out an initial stable version for the project for everyone to try. website link : https://zaneops.dev repo link : https://github.com/zane-ops/zane-ops (PS: yes, the website for zaneops is hosted on zaneops) Would love to hear your thoughts

    2025 · zaneops.dev

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    Morph90

    Heroku for Scrapers

    2014

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    Tutum86

    Docker containers as a cloud service

    2014

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