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They run one Coolify on a single VPS for a Next.js app and find day to day deploys are just git push. The proxy being Traefik cost them debugging time because many older guides use Caddy labels.

They run Coolify across two servers for side projects and client sites and like its one-click services and template library. They find it heavy on resources and say the UI gets confusing as servers are added.

They ran Coolify on a single VPS for small apps and internal tools and stayed because it needed so little attention day to day. They could drop down to plain compose when a tweak was needed.

They found Coolify extremely resource hungry for how little it does, with critical bugs in persistent storage handling for compose services, and would not use it in production.

After more than three years of use, steep upcoming price increases could no longer be justified and prompted a move to CloudPanel.

Seems stable enough now that little is left besides security updates, but it isn't used often because you eventually outgrow it and need stronger security than giving a third party full server access.

Moved from Envoyer to Forge's zero-downtime deployment, though it is not as well supported for multi-site setups.

Keeps a project with a lot of self-hosted setup running without moving to cloud, which would be a huge undertaking with no return; it just works as is for now.

They are a long-time Coolify user who finds it robust but says it eats too many resources compared with alternatives.

Moved off because it only supported Ubuntu and they did not want Ubuntu 26.04; they now run AI-written config scripts and use Caddy instead of nginx for flexibility.

They say Coolify makes system updates easy and even notifies them when an update is due. They add that the main overhead is keeping project dependencies current.

They say they just love Coolify for deployments.

They tried Coolify but dependencies would not start after deployment and they filed a GitHub issue.

They tried Coolify and Dokploy, had problems with Dokploy, and found Coolify more stable. They like its recently refreshed UI and constant updates, and plan to keep using it.

Lack of SQLite support and rigid cloud constraints required too many workflow changes compared to a traditional server setup.

Clean user interface and reliable operation prompted a move back after trying an alternative panel.

Straightforward and easy to set up when hosting a WordPress site.

Happy with it and sees no need to migrate dozens of servers; starting on it made an alternative panel's UI feel confusing.

Works well for tiny side projects or full-scale businesses, but pricing shifts made mid-sized projects too expensive and custom processes are restricted.

They used Coolify and replaced it with Dokploy because they wanted lower resource usage on their server.

Using Cloudways with Vultr for a while with solid performance and no need to move.

They ran Coolify on 4GB of RAM without problems and later moved to 8GB for headroom. They say it has some overhead but has been fine for them.

They run Coolify on a VPS managing a dozen docker apps auto-deployed from GitHub pushes. They do not feel locked in, are moving off Vercel and have had no RAM issues.

They use Coolify for most of their deployments and fall back to manual docker compose for the finicky ones.

Used at work for Laravel apps, with automatic zero-downtime deployments, auto-deploy on new releases, and management of workers and queue jobs, and considered probably the best way to get it just working.

Platform stability has improved since launch and migrating from Vapor was fast, though support responses across paid tiers can still be slow.

They moved from Vercel to self-hosted Coolify and have never looked back.

Works great for managing VPS servers with zero downtime.

Auto-scaling eliminated server maintenance and weekend provisioning worries for five e-commerce apps, though a stuck 20-hour deployment exposed slow support.

Brief trial ended quickly because the platform did not support running Puppeteer for the project.

They use ServerPilot on their DigitalOcean droplets and find it makes server setup simple.

Has been with Cloudways for years and never felt any reason to leave.

A great product but RunCloud means friction: server commands to add disk space and failed agent updates needing manual installs.

Runs around 100 sites across 9 Linode and Vultr servers on RunCloud and calls it flawless.

They deployed a client web platform with Next, MongoDB and Redis managed via Coolify and say it ran like clockwork.

Ten days and nine Cloudways support agents could not resolve a Google InspectionTool "blocked by robots.txt" error, finally calling it out of scope.

They could not get Coolify installed on Ubuntu 24.04: they had to change the DB password manually and the real-time service and localhost were unreachable, a very frustrating experience.

They run a couple of Node apps on a cheap VPS with Coolify. They found setup painless, with GitHub repo builds and deploys handled automatically.

Early adopter preparing to leave the platform because current pricing has become extortionate.

Automated server backups work without needing external WordPress plugins after switching over from RunCloud.

Using Linode servers with the control panel for a handful of clients has never brought a server down, and a good VPS with a server panel is seen as unbeatable on price and performance.

Ridiculous API pricing prompted a move of their servers away from RunCloud to an alternative panel.

Ships apps super quickly, though from India the nearest Singapore region adds noticeable request latency compared to a local VPS.

After years of nightmare hosts, found Cloudways a godsend: fast, affordable with great tech support.

They have been using Coolify and so far really like it. They have not tried Dokku.

They run Coolify on a Hetzner server with three Supabase instances, Appwrite, PocketBase, Grafana and more in about 23 GB, using less disk than a Dokploy server with the same specs.

Ran a MemberPress and LMS site with about 8,000 paid members on a 16 GB Cloudways server with 100% uptime and engineers reachable by chat.

Hosts several dozen sites on Cloudways for years without issue and found WP Engine slower in testing.

Cloudways has good tech support; WP Engine support is friendly but not better.

Cloudways support chat works directly through problems and has been very helpful for client sites.

Six months of running mid-sized projects delivered solid stability, fast node scaling during traffic spikes, and quick support replies, though usage costs can sneak up fast.

Over a year on the platform and the paid plan's auto-updates and firewall rules save tons of development time.

They ran their apps on Coolify before moving back to Kubernetes, finding debugging poor and docs basic-only, and worried about the single-maintainer bus factor, though they say Coolify is not bad.

They run a lot of their self-hosting on Coolify with no stability issues and quick setup, though the GUI options are limited and need workarounds.

They mostly use Ploi to manage their servers.

Staging environments run dead slow even on the most expensive instance tiers compared to running the exact same app and database on AWS.

On Cloudways, CPU spikes to 100% whenever working in WordPress or WooCommerce admin, crippling the site and slowing the backend.

Cloudways with Varnish and its Breeze plugin solves caching mostly well with odd breakages and ties into Cloudflare Enterprise.

Used to host hundreds of sites at Cloudways but calls its Varnish bad and the stack mediocre; upgraded to GridPane.

Cloudways forces its Varnish handling and only the Breeze plugin connects properly, making granular caching frustrating.

They have used Coolify for a while on some deployments as an open-source Heroku/Netlify alternative and say they have been loving how easy it makes self-hosting.

They run Coolify on a private server and find it surprisingly good enough, but note minor issues when adding team members.

They say Coolify works decently well though a bit clunky, liking the automatic PR preview setup but disliking the lack of snapshot and clone options before deploy.

They reinstalled Coolify multiple times but domain resolution was always buggy and clashed with their other non-Coolify apps.

As a Docker beginner they had odd problems with Dokploy templates but never had issues spinning up a template in Coolify.

Fantastic tool for managing over 200 deployed sites across multiple servers, though it lacks a native way to migrate sites between servers.

Repeated critical bugs including provisioning errors, broken server toggles, phantom background workers, and outdated AWS gp2 defaults make production use risky.

Years of use, and the new command palette is loved.

Running an entire agency on the platform since 2016 has been great, and small UI improvements like matching Cloudflare SSL field order are helpful.

An agency runs 140+ WordPress sites on Cloudways and automates updates, caching and server tasks through the Cloudways API.

Cloudways is set-and-forget for personal sites, but Redis setup caused errors on larger client sites and support is not great.

After a few months Cloudways felt overpriced at scale, managed features were subpar (PHP limits) and credit card management was locked by design.

They call Coolify really good but too unstable, with new features breaking old ones and regressions such as broken status checks or DB SSL permissions lingering for months.

Transitioned over from CloudPanel after a vulnerability got 20 WordPress sites hacked, and paying for a proper management panel has been well worth it.

Says Cloudways uses decade-old consumer-grade CPUs; moving a customer from its premium offering to a custom server loaded the site 5x faster.

Saves enough setup and maintenance time to be the default choice for all client projects.

Manages about 40 sites across two Cloudways servers with no overload issues, calling it simple but feature packed with amazing support.

Has worked well enough for several years and keeps slowly adding new features, running on a server in Azure thanks to sponsorship credits.

About 16 live sites with staging on Cloudways for over a year; amazing experience and support is a huge reason to stay.

Cloudways was the clear winner for front-end loading in tests, but the lowest-tier Autonomous backend took 10-25 seconds per page versus 3-6 on other hosts.

Moved to Cloudways on a DigitalOcean server: saved money, better performance, and no hacked-site incidents since.

They ran Coolify on the cheapest Hetzner box and every Next.js build spiked CPU and froze the server until reboot. They fixed it by building the image on GitHub Actions and having Coolify pull it.

They run dozens of services including some react and node apps on a 4 CPU 8 GB box and never had a problem. Only an unoptimized react frontend briefly froze the server before it recovered.

A WordPress developer always hosts on Cloudways and likes its features, great support and ease of use.

They compared the self-hosted options a while ago and settled on Coolify, saying none are perfect but it suits them.

During a bot attack that caused 503 errors, Cloudways chat support blocked the malicious IPs and rebooted the server.

They are a long term GridPane customer as an agency and call it great. They note the primary market is agencies running their own hosting.

Switched from WP Engine to Cloudways about a year ago with more transparent resource usage and easier scaling.

Moved about 100 client sites from WP Engine to Cloudways, scaling easily and saving a fortune.

Experienced WordPress host says Cloudways support sucks.

Cloudways premium support at 500 dollars a month is decent with senior techs on Slack, but there is no root access or stack customization.

Moved an enterprise client from WP Engine to Cloudways and found it easy for budget, caching and speed, though there is no root access.

Agency uses Cloudways with Cloudflare Enterprise; support is quick with the agency add-on though it sometimes only bumps memory, and the Breeze plugin is limited.

Personally loves Cloudways. Expressed as a plain personal opinion about the hosting provider in a thread about WP Engine alternatives.

Uses Cloudways and is very happy.

A Cloudways customer of years never has problems and finds support very responsive, paying about $120 a month for an 8GB server.

Liked Vultr and Cloudways VPS hosting but neither was really that fast; moving clients to managed dedicated servers.

Running the control panel alongside Linode servers and Wasabi storage for years has been rock solid.

Felt outdated and basic with little innovation, though it was nice and worked.

Trouble-free experience managing WordPress sites with zero issues and a helpful Circle community.

Dashboard operations and even simple WordPress installs sometimes fail with no error, needing support, and there is no real staging while pricing feels a bit expensive.

They ran a tiny API and test website and were surprised by a $70 bill, saying it was their last time.

While trying Coolify, a deploy failed and took down both Coolify and their site.

They have used Coolify for a year and like it a lot despite a rough GUI. Multi-server was smooth and moving to another server only needed copying data directories.

Easier to use than Ploi with better WordPress site cloning, though backups can be finicky and some backup destinations require the top-tier plan.

Solid server management panel with fast customer support responses, though the support staff is not deeply technical.

They have used Laravel Forge, along with Appliku, and say both are pretty good paid options for automated deployments.

In a one-month test with two Livewire apps they saw databases failing to wake, apps dropping mid-session, daily restarts, wonky logs and weak support. They found it expensive versus Forge with DigitalOcean.

Manages five Laravel apps, TanStack/Next.js frontends, Postgres, and mail across multiple VPS instances for three years with zero problems.

Forge was used previously, but VPS problems took a lot of time and meant constantly being online to fix things, which led to a move to Laravel Cloud.

Wants to move a few sites off Cloudways because it got quite expensive, though migration to it was easy.

A Cloudways customer on a DigitalOcean server reports a lot of downtime, about every two weeks.

Works pretty good for their small VPS with web apps, so they considered it for a bare metal box to avoid a complex server setup.

They run Coolify on their own VPS and say it takes care of certificate management for them automatically.

They deployed their app stack on Coolify (on a Hetzner Cloud instance) and found it a smooth layer on Docker. Webhooks give automatic deployments on push and one-click PostgreSQL.

Small attack surface and well-tuned Nginx page caching keep basic servers fast and lean, though built-in email, country blocking, and scheduled restarts are missing.

Used for a SaaS, mainly for VPS management, and the developer they work with liked it a lot; they say it is full of features, though they use few of them.

They left ServerPilot about 4 years ago for RunCloud while managing over 50 WordPress sites, and found it excellent with very quick support and steady improvements.

Chosen because weekend outages and failed failover used to cause stress on vacation; having a service that just works is worth the few extra dollars.

Laravel projects were moved from cloud hosting to a local VPS configured with Ploi; everything works so far and bills are much lower.

Moved all projects away because of unpredictable pricing; a proof of concept with sporadically two test users cost as much as a dedicated DigitalOcean server.

They used RunCloud in the past for managing agency sites and liked it overall. Support was quick and everything worked almost perfectly.

They tried Coolify in November and liked its customizability, but found it too beta and buggy to trust with live customer projects.

They deployed a bare test app on the $0 sandbox plan, forgot it, and got a $6.31 invoice. Support said nothing could be done, so they will not use or recommend it.

They migrated away from Coolify because CPU usage was stuck at 100%. They reported the problem and say it was never fixed, and they now run the same apps at half the cost on Dokku.

They had a bad experience and removed it after a test period. Their reports and issues were ignored.

They tried it about 6 months earlier on a 1 vCPU test server. Base resource usage was too high for them to consider it.

A user switched from Bluehost to Cloudways, which is so much better and costs no more than Bluehost's second-year renewal.

A user says Cloudways is good for hand-holding, with excellent chat support that is patient and knows its stuff.

After migrating from WP Engine, images offloaded to an S3 bucket went missing and Cloudways support had no idea how to help.

They found their initial experience smooth and enjoyable, but the shared MySQL credentials at cluster level are a non-starter for them.

After a few months they still find the product good and deployments easy, but backups on a 30 GB Postgres database gave their client a surprise invoice over $300. They switched to MySQL.

They set up two sites on Laravel Cloud in under two minutes and found it easy, but noted 8-18 second wake-ups from hibernation, high cost and limited control.

They have found it great so far, flexible and easy to use.

They use Forge and Envoyer, which cost more than their DigitalOcean droplets, but like the convenience; Forge feels hacked together yet highly functional.

They tried the free tier with little cost and liked it, but publicly exposed databases are a dealbreaker for them until private ones exist.

After evaluating Forge they chose Ploi as much cheaper with good features, running EC2 for production and Lightsail for dev and testing.

They find Forge really excellent and see little reason to move to Laravel Cloud at this stage.

They compared it with a VPS plus Ploi: setup is quicker, but costs multiply per app, hibernation start-up takes at least 7 seconds, and databases and Redis add up.

They moved from a Fly.io setup and found Cloud servers faster at similar configuration, with smooth setup and easy environments, databases and cache. Object storage was the one hard part.

They find Coolify good but say its API is incomplete and its documentation is lacking.

They use Coolify commercially on EC2 and find it a quick install that gets extra apps running fast. They say it still needs service discovery and better docs on inter-server networking.

Backup restoration works well and the platform is mature, though sharp price increases and feature limits on lower tiers hurt value.

Managing small agency client servers for years has been a breeze, with fast server provisioning, staging site creation, and app cloning.

Solid platform overall, but stalled feature development, higher prices, and reduced server and API limits make alternatives more appealing.

A few days of testing so far has been satisfying, and they see it as one of the most stable services around despite slowed development and somewhat high pricing.

They were frustrated by Coolify and similar tools because they could not bring their own docker-compose files, so they kept one big compose file on their server instead.

They tried RunCloud, ServerPilot, SpinupWP and CloudPanel and prefer Ploi paired with Vultr high frequency servers. They have used it about a year, find it reasonably priced and say the devs are active on Discord.

They use GridPane with Vultr and find the docs thorough and the stack impressive and generally reliable for performance. They say the community support model on entry level plans is hit or miss.

They have used SpinupWP for many years on sites hosted at Akamai and are quite happy, running backups several times a day to S3. They find the logs system only OK.

They have run Coolify in production for over a year without problems.

They say SpinUpWP has exceeded all their expectations, including the support.

They currently use Coolify for deployment on their home server because it is easy and everything works automatically.

They love Coolify for its versatility and features for complex environments, and use it to manage a semi-professional setup for a self-developed application.

They call it a bit brave but run Coolify in production anyway.

They say Coolify handles domains and SSL automatically, though they sometimes had to restart the proxy and once had to reach Coolify by IP because the proxy locked them out of the domain.

They use Coolify to manage a self-hosted multi-service stack and find it makes management easy. They say it is still not as easy as they would like and staging environments are not simple to set up.

Tested in depth with no problems and still undecided; it seems oriented toward developers and power users, with flexible stack choices and an easy load-balancer setup.

Runs around 100 WordPress sites on RunCloud with DigitalOcean, Linode and Hetzner servers, with far less bloat than WHM/cPanel, easy and robust backups, and pretty decent support.

They found Coolify easy to set up and deploy simple projects on a VPS or homelab, but switched to Dokploy because Coolify lacked easy horizontal scaling and had complex docs.

A Cloudways user still rates it among the better options but says prices are rising while quality drops, and support is meh.

An agency on Cloudways since 2020 runs 6 servers there and finds the 25%+ markup worth it versus managing DigitalOcean directly.

A developer hosts over 50 websites on Cloudways and everything works flawlessly.

An agency that moved clients to Cloudways was happy at first but ended up paying about $400 a month in markup on top of $400 of servers.

Cloudways lets you terminate servers immediately and only bills for seconds used; a cancelled DO server cost one cent.

Vouches for Cloudways performance for a WooCommerce site.

They set up Coolify to host websites and Flask and Node apps but could not get it running properly. Their sites ended up returning 404 and then 500 errors and they deleted the server.

They moved from AWS servers to Cloudways for its simplicity and say it has worked great for years. They note support quality has deteriorated.

Used to manage projects manually before switching, and the service really saved a lot of time.

Has solved several issues through Cloudways support chat and tickets.

A Cloudways customer says support is great at times but they take months to honour promises and credits, then delete servers immediately if a payment is 24 hours late.

They self-hosted Postiz with Coolify quick deploy with default settings; it deployed but the main domain pointed to the backend API instead of the frontend.

A WordPress developer hosts all clients on their own Cloudways servers, which keeps management streamlined compared with client hosts like GoDaddy.

A developer hosts client sites on Cloudways and finds it trivial to give clients or anyone access to an application.

Letting the panel subscription lapse reportedly trapped them from managing their own VPS, which the author says should not happen even though the backup service stopping is understandable.

Moved from DreamHost VPS to Cloudways; TTFB is now very slow and CPU usage runs high despite no changes, and support costs a lot.

A first-time self-hoster runs Coolify on a Hostinger VPS and can deploy Next.js projects in about ten clicks with auto-deploy on push.