Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Envirobly – Efficient App Hosting
This is my, fully bootstrapped, take on an application hosting platform. I designed it primarily for myself, to meet the following goals: * Utilize the best parts of the cloud, leave expensive value added services behind. * Host anywhere in the world, close to your users. * Batteries included: backups, logging, monitoring, auto-scaling, containerization, databases. * Simple and user friendly. The journey was tough. It took me round about 3 years to get everything just right. This goes against the conventional wisdom of getting something simple out quick. With a hosting platform however, in…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Appwrite® - complete cloud infrastructure for your web, mobile and AI apps. Including Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, Hosting, Realtime and more - appwrite/appwrite
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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RentalRunner▲119Airbnb hosting made easy: sync, schedule & manage with ease
2024 · rentalrunner.com · its alternatives →
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Backendless▲99Build scalable apps at lightning speed, coding optional
2023 · backendless.com · its alternatives →
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Sevalla®▲55Deploy your app before your coffee gets cold. It’s that easy
2025 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →
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Brimble▲8We’ve been building Brimble — a modern hosting platform for developers to ship fullstack apps easily. It’s just two of us. No funding. No marketing team. We’ve shared Brimble a bit on X(twitter), but never really launched it properly. Brimble lets you: - Deploy fullstack apps (Next.js, Laravel, Node, etc.) - Access multiple AI models via a single API - Host static sites and Docker apps - Deploy MCP servers - Provision databases in one click - Manage custom domains directly It actually works. People are using it. But we’re now ready to really put it out there and see what the dev world…
2023 · brimble.io · its alternatives →
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It's free servers monitoring and centralized cloud management app. We're hoping to lunch anytime soon. What do you think? Thanks.
2013 · cloudiff.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on. My startup previously built B2B SaaS, and large enterprises sometimes wanted to self-host it for data residency reasons - but this was a nightmare to build and support. I chatted to other builders/founders and it seems this pain is pretty common. But people tolerate it because the biggest customers often require self-hosting. So we’ve built and open-sourced Shepherd to make it easier to manage these self-hosted deployments. It’s MIT licensed, and provides: 1 - Simplified deployment with a UI to create and manage Helm charts, for…
2025 · trustshepherd.com · its alternatives →
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Recently moved all of my apps to a $4/mo VPS using Coolify Saved tons of $$, and can self-host my Ghost/Wordpress/Postgres instances etc. Built a tool to help others do the same
2024 · indiehost.io · its alternatives →
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Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Cloudplane. Deploy, manage, and scale high-performance servers effortlessly. Get started for free today!
2022 · cloudplane.org · its alternatives →
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The website is just another interface to awesome-selfhosted[0] list. I am no front-end developer so please bear with me as I improve the design and add more capabilities like filter and sort. The website looks good on desktop and on mobile in landscape mode. [0]: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/
2023 · selfhosting.quest · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We're a small team of developers who, like many of you, love the power and convenience of Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platforms. However, we've also felt the sting of vendor lock-in, wrestled with the complexities of self-hosting feature-rich open-source alternatives, and worried about unpredictable costs or the sudden disappearance of free tiers that many indie devs and small projects rely on. We believe developers deserve more control and simplicity without sacrificing functionality. After countless hours spent navigating these challenges, we decided to build the solution we wished…
2025 · selfdb.io · its alternatives →
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I got sick of: - Re-writing the same Terraform for the same common AWS infrastructure - Re-writing the same Rails code to build the same webapp - Re-configuring the same monitoring systems & CI/CD pipelines - Spending a week in dependency & configuration hell wiring it all together When I was launching my first two startups, I wished I had a strong starting point with all of the best practices & technology configured out-of-the-box. Every tool I found wanted to lock me in to some PaaS provider (that might not even exist in a year) who wanted to take a premium on my infrastructure spend…
2024 · its alternatives →
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This is some short information of how I bootstrapped my hosting company, pretty much an MVP of a hosting company. 1. Provide MINIMAL/NO support. No technical support is provided, all VPS plans and Web Hosting plans are unmanaged and provide only support on issues with services provided by us (billing, control panel) but nothing inside the VPS unless it is a fault on our end (network misconfiguration). 2. Automated setup. All VPSs are deployed instantly, (à la DigitalOcean) so no humans have to manually deploy them. END PRODUCT: https://definedcodehosting.com All payment is…
2014 · its alternatives →
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My name is Elliott. For the last three years, I’ve been building a DevOps platform on the best-in-class open source platforms (Kubernetes, Elixir, PostgreSQL, Grafana, etc.). The goal is to give engineering teams access to a modern DevOps infrastructure without needing to have a full SRE/DevOps team dedicated. It’s also open source /fair source - all the source code is here → https://github.com/batteries-included/batteries-included I shipped a public beta today and would love to hear initial reactions, thoughts, and feedback. Here are details of the platform: *…
2024 · batteriesincl.com · its alternatives →
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I am a software engineer working alone on a passion project, a website that helps you stay organized easily and efficiently. Headspace.io is a webmail, notepad, task list and calendar, all rolled into on. The basic premise is that any data in Headspace can be "tagged" and then all relevant information for a particular tag can be displayed in one screen. This is a pre-beta build and I'm hoping to get some early feedback from the wise and generous HN folks. Would you pay a small monthly fee ($5 maybe) for a service like this? http://app.headspace.io/ (This is pre-production so…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Check out my self-hosted cloud! A DIY alternative to AWS, built with second-hand hardware and open-source tools, fueled by passion. Take a look:
2024 · diy-cloud.remikeat.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I am Ashley, author of the book Serverless Apps on Cloudflare, and I'm excited to share it with you and hopefully spread the awareness of the powerful and developer-focussed platform that Cloudflare has built, that I believe is currently flying under the radar! For years, I've been building applications on Cloudflare - from websites, to APIs, to Discord bots and everything in-between. The platform has grown hugely in the past few years, to the point it has all the essential building blocks for modern applications. It's also built with engineers in mind, the developer experience…
2024 · pragprog.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, Powerful, Better Cloud Computing.
2017 · furi88-news.com · its alternatives →
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AppToken exchange, web hosting, and fundings for WebApp
2021 · host3.app · its alternatives →
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