Coolify Reviews

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.