The BEST Tool to Deploy Your Apps (Stop using Vercel)

If you are looking for a tool that deploys your applications and costs nothing (its FREE) - check out Coolify.
It is an open source software that is great for self-hosting your applications. I was completely impressed when I found it - it's Free, multiple DNS, Self-hosted, open source, great support. You HAVE to check it out if you are asking yourself how to deploy your applications.
Coolify:
www.coolify.io/
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Discover why Coolify is the ultimate tool for deploying your applications! 🚀 In this video, we dive into Coolify's features, benefits, and why it's the best choice for seamless app deployment. Perfect for developers seeking efficiency and reliability
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[@MelkeyDev]

Make sure to comment + like - it means the world :)

[@dikan34]

Finally, the best self-hosting tool

[@MelkeyDev]

THE BEST BABY

[@heyandras]

Thank you, Melkey, for making this video! 🙂 (the dev behind Coolify here)

[@peterszarvas94]

this is an amazing tool!

[@Dominik-K]

Great software, have been using it very nicely on hetzner too. Thanks a bunch for the work you've put in

[@ifeanyinneji7704]

Coolify's a great tool!

[@MarkTheSWE]

Will be checking this out to host a small leptos site

[@Mikagaru444]

Thank you for your amazing work, the tool is awesome. ❤️

[@Dom-zy1qy]

Theres like an entire subcommunity of anti vercel devs, and honestly I will probably be joining that once I get jumpscared with a $400 bill on my 5 MAU app.

[@MelkeyDev]

do it before this happens!

[@naturo_yatangaki]

AMAZING thanks fireship

[@MelkeyDev]

shoutout fireship!

[@BarakaAndrew]

This is game changer, surprised I didn't know it existed. Definitely gotta support the coder, stuff like this makes the dev experience so much better.

[@MelkeyDev]

100%!!

[@thomasgormanable]

Thanks for the great video! I'm very much a noob when it comes to hosting, so a lot of this went over my head and im in the beginning stages of learning go. I will definitely come back to this when the projects im making need this!

[@MelkeyDev]

Oh hell yeah man. Let me know how it goes and if i could have done anything better

[@elugonzalez267]

Awesome! ,pls keep doing videos like this one :) helping the Dev community

[@flwi]

Great intro! Thanks for taking the time to record it. I definitely have to play around with it.

[@MelkeyDev]

I am glad you enjoyed

[@user-wr9gz1gr3u]

Thank you, this is actually pretty helpful! I know a bit of devops myself, but the manual work is just disgustingly tedious. I'm definitely gonna try this on my Raspberry Pi!

[@Dominik-K]

Ive had so many good experiences with this so far, its been super useful

[@johanntes2248]

Coolify ftw! Nice video Melkey

[@MelkeyDev]

Thank you!

[@elwafdy]

Very cool! Thanks for the video!

[@MelkeyDev]

:) Thanks for watching

[@p_o_z_e]

Ok this is super cool, def gonna check it out!

[@MelkeyDev]

:)

[@giannifed]

Great tutorial. Why did you choose version 3? What are the differences? Thank you

[@CsAlchemy-eg6ch]

i can't believe such a tool exist , thanks for the helpful content !

[@MelkeyDev]

Yeah no problem :)

[@rayusaki88]

Cool! Thanks for sharing this resource

[@marlopainter8246]

Fireship told me you could save me some money. This looks awesome! I'm new and have been racking my brain for hosting, etc.. this just made the decision simple! Thank you for the video.

[@MelkeyDev]

Youre welcome!

[@thomasrommel1512]

Thank you very much for sharing such an amazing tool!

[@MelkeyDev]

I am glad you enjoyed

[@codestuff3685]

This is soo sooo sooo awesome gonna try this and most probably use this in production

[@MelkeyDev]

Hell yeah - let me know how it goes!

[@TheKennyWorld]

Great example of what you can build with the amazing TALL stack!

[@Redyf]

this is awesome, thank you so much for sharing

[@MelkeyDev]

Absolutely

[@udovyk]

Looks super cool!

[@eddiejaoude]

This looks great! Thanks for sharing Open Source the best

[@MelkeyDev]

glad i can bring some aattention

[@sabuein]

Thank you, brother.

[@Dmahh]

This is what I've always dreamed of. Many peoples jobs account for this kind of configuration work day in and day out. Having this kind of tool is a superpower for sure.

[@BenjaminB-xyz]

Love to see the self-hosted revolution growing! Coolify has some similarities to StartOS.

[@yosa9463]

What distro do you use for a desktop?

[@astronautonmars]

This is sooo amazingggg!!!

[@charleschen4093]

love this tool!

[@alfedonculous]

Enjoyed the video! Out of interest, how does the DNS config work for this? Do you need multiple ips, does it change destination based on hostname, how does it work?

[@thenecroyeti1]

If its set up with a SSL cert, then you can route via hostname. Very standard stuff, do it with Nginx all the time.

[@aradipatrik]

Great video, thanks for sharing about this tech. You have this console for one machine. What if you need to scale you application? Will this be able to do that?

[@megasanjay]

Depends on what kind of scale. A single machine is good enough for most people. Anything that would overwhelm a single machine might require its own server deployments

[@daniel64147]

Which is the alternative of Coolify? There are a more artisan way to do?

[@angeldev96]

Great video about a great tool!

[@MelkeyDev]

Thank you - im glad you enjoyed

[@inderjotsingh5868]

I have a doubt, does coolofy supports all features of next

[@hassanad94]

Thank you for the video :) I have a similar vps, i was wondering how much reasources coolify use ? Should i upgrade my vps? Do you have any metrics which can give a insite. ( I know it wont be accurate but, its good to know. ) Thank you so much for the tutorial. :)

[@everyhandletaken]

Have a look at their docs for requirements, I can't recall exactly, but something like 1vcpu / 2GB for Coolify + what you need for your services. They do, however, suggest that you run coolify on a separate server to your workloads, so that you aren't preventing access to coolify if you have a workload that chews up all the resources.. but if it is just for hobby, probably not such a concern.

[@boopfer387]

Damn my mind is blow!!! Amazing!

[@MelkeyDev]

Its so good!

[@pedrolemos3030]

nice video and awesome tool! just one question tho, if I have access to only one VPS (an ok one, 4 vcpus and 8gb of ram) can I use this tool to deploy my stuff? so the VPS I would host coolify and the VPS I would deploy my applications TO are the same, is this an ok setup?

[@HemkantTripathi]

You can have your apps deployed on same server as coolify. 4 vcpu is good enough for quite a few apps imo

[@MelkeyDev]

That is more than enough - you will be surprised how optimal frameworks make apps these days

[@jaymartinez311]

From the short you posted i thought i was gonna have to setup linux on my macos but that step with the os server for like $3, now i can use coolify. This video provided a lot more context than the short 😂. Thanks for the video. I have an app deployed to vercel for a non profit for my Army veteran friend which i’m the CTO/Webmaster for and i’ve only worked in the frontend with vuejs. So i’ve never deployed a backend 😂. Yes i have a skill issue but i don’t think it’s that bad. I run and create scripts in the terminal so i’ll be alright. Saved me the headache of opening up parrallels desktop & using ubuntu on windows which is super slow on my intel 2019 macbook. I’ve never done the server thing to then run everything else but it looks straight forward so thank you! Sorry for the rant. I great video would be a rest api deployed to coolify. No caching or bells and whistles just a simple rest app to see the deployment process.

[@MelkeyDev]

Haha yeah that was the point! Provide more context than the short :)

[@funkman1985]

Awesome video. How does this stack up against something like easypanel and cloudpanel?

[@megasanjay]

Very similar services. Compared to easypanel its completely free for everything. I think cloudpanel doesn't have docker support. Containers make coolify super powered

[@ChildishBenbino]

Self-hosting newb here! So, if I host Coolify on an EC2 then want to deploy multiple apps inside of it, how does Coolify avoid "collisions" between apps that share the same ports? Like, I see Coolify runs on port 8000. If I had another app that requires that port, is it up to me to be aware and reconfigure?

[@hybs9473]

Do you have any video how to make a svelte/react app to a dockerfile and integrate them to coolify? I'm complete self hosting beginner, that will be a big help.

[@MelkeyDev]

I could do this if you want

[@AdamFiregate]

Thank you. 🌞💛✨

[@MelkeyDev]

No problem :)

[@tengokuvision]

Looks promising! 🌟 Does it have a “zero downtime deployment” feature for ci/cd? My Next.js project is not accessible while it’s building (after new code being pushed to the repo) as i’m struggling to make pm2 cluster mode to work correctly. any advice on the topic is appreciated too btw

[@chris-pee]

From what I've read, you can have zero downtime deploys, but it's undocumented. If you're using Docker Compose, you need to define a healthcheck (check docker docs), then it will make sure your new build is properly live before destroying the previous one.

[@tengokuvision]

@@chris-pee thank you 🙏

[@harblot]

use systemd daemons with nextjs hot reload

[@Tarabass]

Great tool! Is it possible to use coolify on a synology nas?

[@MelkeyDev]

i am not sure but if you find the answer I would be curious too!+

[@albinopepegas8391]

For databases to you prefer to host them on your server or use a managed one from aws or digital ocean?

[@sarjannarwan6896]

I think if you're using this for a database the absolute minimum should be to have snapshots (coolify supports backing up to s3).

[@megasanjay]

host on coolify to start. Move to something else if it ever becomes an issue and need the reliability of a cloud provider

[@codernerd7076]

Thanks!

[@MelkeyDev]

no problem!

[@spirodono]

Holy shit this is incredible

[@tiltMOD]

So is Coolify a production-grade DevOps tool at this point? Or is it mostly good for hosting personal applications?

[@MelkeyDev]

Id say for personal projects it covers a lot of things, but for prduction level you would need to make that decision. I think its okay for both cases

[@tiltMOD]

@@MelkeyDev Thanks for the response and the helpful video 🙏

So you use this for your personal stuff and for company stuff AWS with CDK and stuff?

[@MelkeyDev]

For company stuff yeah we are vendor locked to AWS

@@MelkeyDev cool thanks for clarification :) we use open shift. It is not as fancy as AWS but having your own cloud brings it own advantages

[@Sameer.Trivedi]

That is great for all my stupid side projects that have too little users to earn me money and too many to shutdown 😂

[@returnZeroo]

I also love the version 3

[@MelkeyDev]

yeah!

[@persegona77]

Why v3 over v4?

[@MelkeyDev]

@@persegona77 Preference

[@returnZeroo]

@@persegona77 v3 looks simple and straight forward to me.

[@camilo5821]

Nice tool dude

[@MelkeyDev]

:)

[@johnmay9699]

Is it possible to use coolify to setup multiple vms for frontend, backend, database etc using private network between them?

[@MelkeyDev]

Yup!

[@vaisakhkm783]

You meant a docker compose?

[@johnmay9699]

@@vaisakhkm783 No, I meant more like Kubernetes

[@wulfem]

How often do you change your setup for your app (db, insights etc)? I prefer one bash script for the Hetzner API and spin my whole server and everything ready configured without clicking within probably 1 minute (of waiting). And i am sure i forgot nothing. Or I can resetup my server within seconds. Plus no additional app to keep updated, which is a security risk on top. It's so easy with Docker anyway and to learn bash is king anyway, if you will do things efficient.

[@MelkeyDev]

Depends, but i actually like to use AWS CDK for other infra outside of the Coolify eco system

[@meamedoz]

So Hetzner wouldn’t charge you automatically right? If you have more traffic you need to upgrade by yourself?

[@naturo_yatangaki]

Yes. In case of DDoS the server just goes down in worst case

[@meamedoz]

@@naturo_yatangaki Awesome, I’m definitely gonna try this tool.

[@MelkeyDev]

Yep - its still a server based architecture

[@vaisakhkm783]

Can it do automatically setup ci/cd for react, vue, nextjs, sveltekit erc projects without docker compose?

[@MelkeyDev]

yeah - explore the settings and read some of the documentation

[@adokce]

did you set up ipv4 and firewall on hetzner?

[@MelkeyDev]

I set up ipv4 and a simple firewall

[@naolfekadu6101]

Can I setup email server alongside it?

[@Gornius]

I deploy everything via docker-compose and reverse proxy, but coolify looks tempting.

[@MelkeyDev]

If you do this I think you will love Coolify because its not too much different from that

[@sarcasticdna]

From fireship 🎉

[@davidgrunsted2990]

you should do a video about pocketbase

[@MelkeyDev]

Would you watch it?

[@theuser384]

See, PHP is not dead!

[@ThisIsMMI]

You can build a very low spec pc and self host many apps in it. Reduces the cost of renting a cloud machine in the long run

[@Alex-kb2ws]

100% not for this scale. The electricity bill is more expensive than 1 month of the cheaper VMs

[@darkcss1054]

Well, this looks promising. Of course not for a big corporation that has to be very paranoid about cybersecurity and scalability, but for small developers to spin up their prototypes without the fear of having a thousand dollar bill on the credit card the next morning.

[@MelkeyDev]

Bingo!!

[@freecourseplatformenglish2829]

That COOOOOOOOOOLLLLLL

[@jofla]

Imagine doing videos like this for living 😂

[@MelkeyDev]

This isnt my living!

[@blasandresayalagarcia3472]

How much does it cost, and does it have scaling limits so cloud doesn't kill you with the bill?

[@MelkeyDev]

Coolify is free

[@blasandresayalagarcia3472]

@@MelkeyDev I meant Hetzner cost with your usage, and does coolify or Hetzner have a way to limit your cost

[@MelkeyDev]

@@blasandresayalagarcia3472 so its just the cost of the Hetzner server, which is $5 USD. The usage has to be scaled up if you face that problem. Cost is a static fee, once a month, and does not fluctuate or change

[@codelucky]

How easy it is to replicate the server and extend database, as the user base increases?

[@MelkeyDev]

Databases are separate services so you can extend that easily and aalways back up + migrate. Then hetzner you just scale up as needed

[@codelucky]

@@MelkeyDev You mean distributed databases? Can you recommend one good NoSQL and one RDBMS fully-managed database? I came across Dynamodb for NoSQL and NeonDB for Postgres. Do you have better suggestions? Easy to use, quick to setup and cheap as chips.

[@YazeedAlKhalaf]

Is this the old UI? It looks better than the new one tbh 😂

[@Alex-bc3xe]

So weird... v3 is better looking than 4 and has more services wtf, for example in v4 you have no plausbile

[@MelkeyDev]

I really like V3 :3

[@megasanjay]

v4 has way more services. There are lots of redis alternatives alone in v4. I use both but planning on transitioning all my instances to v4 soon

[@rahulgawale]

How do i take backup of data in case something gets wrong or I lose admin creds ?

[@MelkeyDev]

You would need to either contact Coolify support or re install on your Hetzner box

[@rahulgawale]

@@MelkeyDev thanks ❤

[@shaungbhone8368]

Wait! What? written with laravel framework with laravel livewire?

[@MelkeyDev]

Nothing!

[@neofox2526]

clicked for the bait but actually got a really cool product

[@MelkeyDev]

This is lowkey a great compliment haha

[@justdoitk]

I've tried to deploy an astro.js app and doesn't work, is there any resources for that?

[@MelkeyDev]

What issues are you specifically running into?

[@justdoitk]

@@MelkeyDev I have a website made with astro.js and i've deployed from github and on deployment log i'm getting: [2024-Jun-24 17:15:38.489670] Removing old containers. [2024-Jun-24 17:15:38.492306] New container is not healthy, rolling back to the old container. [2024-Jun-24 17:15:38.699844] Rolling update completed. Build Pack i'm using Nixpacks, thanks for fast response

[@LotsOfFunyoutubechannel]

I don't use vercel cause its easy. I use it because it is free (for personal projects that will not see any traffic)

[@MelkeyDev]

Fair!

[@Serizon_]

F vercel. I like cloudflare workers and server coolify as well

[@MelkeyDev]

yessir

[@snatvb]

needs to buy raspberry pi and try this tool)

[@woozy2171]

wow i can't believe this really is free

[@MelkeyDev]

I know its crazy

[@picblade]

The best tools - your hands, brain, gitlab and Docker 😊

[@loganyt8818]

Vercel hurt bro real bad

[@MelkeyDev]

i am OK

[@2u841r]

Wow

[@BenjaminWagener]

Looks nice, but I don't use docker, so no option for me.

[@MelkeyDev]

You dont need Docker

[@leventebotos6927]

Whos from Fireship

[@user-ii7xc1ry3x]

Fireship sent me 🔥🚢

[@chrispfaff720]

How is this free?

[@naturo_yatangaki]

devs are awesome

[@LjaDj5XQKey9mSDxh4]

What about serverless functions?

[@Frostbytedigital]

*there's no such thing*

[@LjaDj5XQKey9mSDxh4]

@@Frostbytedigital So it doesnt replace Vercel

[@Chaaos2]

Imagine not using vercel 😂😂

[@megasanjay]

Coolify + Cloudflare is a good combo. Don't have to pay triangle company anything.

[@SoftIceCreamMan]

i am the firstest

[@MelkeyDev]

SECOND!

[@n4bb12]

Ten minutes of lack of "because".

[@danielf2651]

I don't get it, isn't this just Vercel but not free since you need to rent a web server? Isn't it actually even more expensive, since Vercel will for example use AWS Amplify behind the scenes when you deploy a NextJS app, but this would all just be running on a generic web server without the optimisations that AWS Amplify has? I feel like I'd rather just use AWS at that point.

[@mirzazplayz_rblx]

Big L

[@angrycoder]

why?

[@collinswanyeki]

If Arc adds VPN i guess @MelkeyDev will shift from Brave

[@MelkeyDev]

Ayooo im on Ubuntu lol