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Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedNov 5, 2026Positive

They run their 8-person agency's tooling on 2 cheap VPS managed through Coolify and call it one of their favourite tools, handling deployments and infrastructure. They have also moved client workloads from AWS and Vercel to it.

RunCloud

Customer reviewNov 3, 2026Positive

Freelancer here. I run 11 small client WordPress sites on one Hetzner VPS with the Essentials plan. Unlimited web apps on a single server is what makes the maths work for me. The panel takes care of the dull parts: setting up the stack, free SSL, picking the PHP version per app, scheduled backups, and one staging site where I test plugin updates first. Keep in mind you still pay Hetzner for the server, RunCloud only manages it. Prices have gone up more than once since I signed up, and API access is now only on the Business tier, which annoyed me. One time an agent update failed and I had to update it by hand over SSH. Support is ticket based, they answered within a day and were polite but it's not instant.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedOct 28, 2026Mixed

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.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedOct 27, 2026Mixed

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.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedOct 27, 2026Positive

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.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedOct 24, 2026Negative

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.

RunCloud

Summary of a review onRedditr/webhostingOct 5, 2026Negative

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelSep 28, 2026Mixed

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.

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelSep 26, 2026Mixed

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelSep 25, 2026Positive

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.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedSep 25, 2026Mixed

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelSep 24, 2026Negative

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.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedSep 23, 2026Positive

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.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedSep 12, 2026Positive

They say they just love Coolify for deployments.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedSep 12, 2026Negative

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedSep 8, 2026Mixed

They ran Coolify and Dokploy in low-stakes production and found Coolify has a larger community, built-in S3 backups and multi-server support. They say the cost is more surface area, with upgrades occasionally touching unexpected things.

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedSep 8, 2026Positive

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.

Laravel Cloud

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelSep 5, 2026Negative

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelAug 19, 2026Positive

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

Ploi

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelAug 14, 2026Positive

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelAug 14, 2026Positive

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/laravelAug 13, 2026Mixed

Laravel Cloud

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

Summary of a review onRedditr/selfhostedJul 29, 2026Mixed

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

Cloudways

Summary of a review onRedditr/WordpressJul 22, 2026Positive

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