Dokploy articles

All three turn a cheap VPS into your own Heroku. I run my whole stack on Dokploy, so here is the practical comparison: how each one deploys, what breaks, and which to pick for a solo dev, a small agency or a team.

Dokploy deploys my apps, Mailcow runs my email, Postgres holds my data — and Novu and WAHA are the two I'm still wiring in. I didn't write any of it, and my whole setup now leans on it. Here's me working out whether that's a solid foundation or five dependencies I can't escape — and the one question I ask before adding another.

I used to deploy by SSH-ing into a box, hand-writing Nginx server blocks, and running certbot from memory. Dokploy replaced all of it with a UI and a git push. Here is what actually changed, what it does not solve, and the two things that still bit me.