Reddit · r/laravel · 8 days ago
They could not provision servers or deploy client sites for hours during the incident. They patched PHP manually over SSH, and Forge's published instructions were incorrect.
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Reddit · r/selfhosted · 8 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 9 days ago
They found the Forge control panel completely unavailable during the PHP patch incident, not just slow as the post-mortem described.
HostingRecs · Tomasz · 10 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 16 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 17 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 17 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 20 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
During the PHP security release day Forge was unusable for them, taking 3 minutes just to load the servers list.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They found that a manual PHP update on Forge installed a version without the security fix during the release, which they found very annoying.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They report that both a manual update and the UI update for PHP 8.5 on Forge still gave them the old PHP version during the security release.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They were unable to deploy on Forge because deploys were cut off after a few minutes, while the server status page showed green. They also saw a wrong not-updated banner and a buggy Forge UI.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 39 days ago
After more than three years of use, steep upcoming price increases could no longer be justified and prompted a move to CloudPanel.
Reddit · r/laravel · 46 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 48 days ago
Moved from Envoyer to Forge's zero-downtime deployment, though it is not as well supported for multi-site setups.
Reddit · r/laravel · 49 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 49 days ago
They are a long-time Coolify user who finds it robust but says it eats too many resources compared with alternatives.
Reddit · r/laravel · 50 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 51 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 52 days ago
They use Managed Queues on Laravel Cloud for ffmpeg audio processing and keep hitting memory and disk limits. They report constant disk usage above 90% warnings and managed queue crashes and restarts.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 62 days ago
They tried Coolify but dependencies would not start after deployment and they filed a GitHub issue.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 66 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 66 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 69 days ago
Lack of SQLite support and rigid cloud constraints required too many workflow changes compared to a traditional server setup.
Reddit · r/laravel · 86 days ago
Clean user interface and reliable operation prompted a move back after trying an alternative panel.
Reddit · r/laravel · 91 days ago
Straightforward and easy to set up when hosting a WordPress site.
Reddit · r/laravel · 91 days ago
Happy with it and sees no need to migrate dozens of servers; starting on it made an alternative panel's UI feel confusing.
Reddit · r/laravel · 92 days ago
Works well for tiny side projects or full-scale businesses, but pricing shifts made mid-sized projects too expensive and custom processes are restricted.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 107 days ago
They used Coolify and replaced it with Dokploy because they wanted lower resource usage on their server.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 114 days ago
Using Cloudways with Vultr for a while with solid performance and no need to move.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 138 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 138 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 146 days ago
They use Laravel Cloud for hobby projects and often throw projects at it and forget to tear them down, so a usage tracker is handy for them.
Reddit · r/laravel · 147 days ago
They say the Laravel Cloud billing page is really good.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 155 days ago
They use Coolify for most of their deployments and fall back to manual docker compose for the finicky ones.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 161 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 164 days ago
Their toy app, deployed 12 months earlier in Frankfurt and untouched with no traffic, ended up in a constant reboot loop so it could not hibernate. Redeploying fixed it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 164 days ago
They had trouble moving from Forge to Cloud and found that Cloud still needs more resources than Forge ever did for their Horizon setup.
Reddit · r/laravel · 165 days ago
Platform stability has improved since launch and migrating from Vapor was fast, though support responses across paid tiers can still be slow.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 166 days ago
They moved from Vercel to self-hosted Coolify and have never looked back.
Reddit · r/laravel · 170 days ago
Works great for managing VPS servers with zero downtime.
Reddit · r/laravel · 170 days ago
Auto-scaling eliminated server maintenance and weekend provisioning worries for five e-commerce apps, though a stuck 20-hour deployment exposed slow support.
Reddit · r/laravel · 170 days ago
Brief trial ended quickly because the platform did not support running Puppeteer for the project.
Reddit · r/laravel · 174 days ago
They have had so many issues with Laravel Cloud that they think they are the only person using it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 175 days ago
Their dev and preview environments broke over a cache certificate issue, and deployments failed. Support took over 24 hours to acknowledge it, and a Redis scheme env flag finally fixed it.
Reddit · r/laravel · 175 days ago
They had a poor experience testing Laravel Cloud with many hiccups. Error logs from the caching system used up the whole 100K free Nightwatch messages.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 186 days ago
They use ServerPilot on their DigitalOcean droplets and find it makes server setup simple.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 210 days ago
Has been with Cloudways for years and never felt any reason to leave.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 210 days ago
A great product but RunCloud means friction: server commands to add disk space and failed agent updates needing manual installs.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 211 days ago
Runs around 100 sites across 9 Linode and Vultr servers on RunCloud and calls it flawless.
Reddit · r/webdev · 214 days ago
They deployed a client web platform with Next, MongoDB and Redis managed via Coolify and say it ran like clockwork.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 218 days ago
Ten days and nine Cloudways support agents could not resolve a Google InspectionTool "blocked by robots.txt" error, finally calling it out of scope.
Reddit · r/laravel · 235 days ago
They run a large comic database app (Livewire, Filament, Horizon, Reverb, PostgreSQL) on Laravel Cloud and call it a smooth experience. Deployments are simple and not managing infrastructure freed their time.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 235 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 236 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
Early adopter preparing to leave the platform because current pricing has become extortionate.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
Automated server backups work without needing external WordPress plugins after switching over from RunCloud.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
Ridiculous API pricing prompted a move of their servers away from RunCloud to an alternative panel.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 241 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 247 days ago
Ships apps super quickly, though from India the nearest Singapore region adds noticeable request latency compared to a local VPS.
Reddit · r/laravel · 248 days ago
They moved to Laravel Cloud around November and run millions of items through queue clusters, finding the flexibility and response good. They note the Postgres side costs a bit more and early quirks with unconfigurable queue clusters running out of memory.
Reddit · r/laravel · 248 days ago
They paid only 1.5 USD in their first month on Laravel Cloud for testing, and say good hibernation settings keep the cost low.
Reddit · r/webdev · 253 days ago
After years of nightmare hosts, found Cloudways a godsend: fast, affordable with great tech support.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 264 days ago
They have been using Coolify and so far really like it. They have not tried Dokku.
Reddit · r/laravel · 266 days ago
Their third-party monitor alerted them to downtime on a site they host on Laravel Cloud, and the main dashboard was unreachable too. The status page for Cloud was hard to find.
Reddit · r/laravel · 266 days ago
They run an ecommerce back end on Laravel Cloud, and it went down during the outage.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 268 days ago
Their software company chose Coolify to run client deployments and found it great for the most part. They wish it had better metrics, logs and observability and docker volume backups, since only database backups are automated.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 269 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 269 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 273 days ago
Hosts several dozen sites on Cloudways for years without issue and found WP Engine slower in testing.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 274 days ago
Cloudways has good tech support; WP Engine support is friendly but not better.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 274 days ago
Cloudways support chat works directly through problems and has been very helpful for client sites.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
They moved a few apps from self-managed DigitalOcean to Laravel Cloud. Uptime and performance are good, and the cost is higher but worth not managing infrastructure.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
They run smaller apps on Cloud and had breaking changes applied to existing apps, with a dismissive support response. They also report slow fixes, including 9 days of silence on an infrastructure issue.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
They migrated 3 apps to Laravel Cloud on the $20 plan, found setup easy, and needed only two support requests handled via Slack. Auto scale works well under traffic spikes, with no stability issues.
Reddit · r/laravel · 283 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 287 days ago
Their static assets on Laravel Cloud had no cache TTL despite the docs promising edge caching, which hurt their Lighthouse score and SEO. They spent a long time on a support ticket that ended in a public dispute.
Reddit · r/laravel · 287 days ago
They have contacted Laravel Cloud support several times and found the responses and commitment really good.
Reddit · r/laravel · 291 days ago
They switched to Ploi because of US politics and have had no complaints after a year of use.
Reddit · r/laravel · 291 days ago
Over a year on the platform and the paid plan's auto-updates and firewall rules save tons of development time.
Reddit · r/laravel · 308 days ago
They deployed a very low-traffic client app with two branches and two databases, and were billed $30 then $27 for almost no use. They moved to a VPS with Dokploy for a fraction of the cost.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 312 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 313 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 337 days ago
Staging environments run dead slow even on the most expensive instance tiers compared to running the exact same app and database on AWS.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 343 days ago
On Cloudways, CPU spikes to 100% whenever working in WordPress or WooCommerce admin, crippling the site and slowing the backend.
Reddit · r/laravel · 356 days ago
They use Laravel Cloud for several small client projects and are happy with deployment, zero-management and CDN performance. Invoices have been manageable, though they worry about uncapped bandwidth costs.
Reddit · r/laravel · 363 days ago
They found the database cost on Laravel Cloud far too high for a non-commercial project and switched it off.
Reddit · r/laravel · 364 days ago
They moved a number of projects from Forge to Laravel Cloud, say it works fine, and report a bill under $20 a month.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 377 days ago
Cloudways with Varnish and its Breeze plugin solves caching mostly well with odd breakages and ties into Cloudflare Enterprise.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 378 days ago
Used to host hundreds of sites at Cloudways but calls its Varnish bad and the stack mediocre; upgraded to GridPane.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 378 days ago
Cloudways forces its Varnish handling and only the Breeze plugin connects properly, making granular caching frustrating.
Reddit · r/laravel · 392 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 392 days ago
They run Coolify on a private server and find it surprisingly good enough, but note minor issues when adding team members.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 399 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 400 days ago
They reinstalled Coolify multiple times but domain resolution was always buggy and clashed with their other non-Coolify apps.
Reddit · r/laravel · 401 days ago
In the new Forge UI many links do not work for them when clicked, so they have to edit URLs to reach things like PHP settings.
Reddit · r/laravel · 408 days ago
After Forge changes, their provisioned server was suddenly moved to a different region, so business email stopped going out because of geo blocking.
Reddit · r/laravel · 408 days ago
They have used Forge with around 50 sites in a single dropdown for over 5 years and like the new release that organizes sites by team.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 409 days ago
As a Docker beginner they had odd problems with Dokploy templates but never had issues spinning up a template in Coolify.
Reddit · r/laravel · 410 days ago
Fantastic tool for managing over 200 deployed sites across multiple servers, though it lacks a native way to migrate sites between servers.
Reddit · r/laravel · 410 days ago
Repeated critical bugs including provisioning errors, broken server toggles, phantom background workers, and outdated AWS gp2 defaults make production use risky.
Reddit · r/laravel · 413 days ago
Years of use, and the new command palette is loved.
Reddit · r/laravel · 414 days ago
Running an entire agency on the platform since 2016 has been great, and small UI improvements like matching Cloudflare SSL field order are helpful.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 420 days ago
An agency runs 140+ WordPress sites on Cloudways and automates updates, caching and server tasks through the Cloudways API.
Reddit · r/webdev · 424 days ago
Cloudways is set-and-forget for personal sites, but Redis setup caused errors on larger client sites and support is not great.
Reddit · r/webdev · 424 days ago
After a few months Cloudways felt overpriced at scale, managed features were subpar (PHP limits) and credit card management was locked by design.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 426 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 430 days ago
Transitioned over from CloudPanel after a vulnerability got 20 WordPress sites hacked, and paying for a proper management panel has been well worth it.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 431 days ago
Says Cloudways uses decade-old consumer-grade CPUs; moving a customer from its premium offering to a custom server loaded the site 5x faster.
Reddit · r/laravel · 440 days ago
Saves enough setup and maintenance time to be the default choice for all client projects.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 440 days ago
Manages about 40 sites across two Cloudways servers with no overload issues, calling it simple but feature packed with amazing support.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 441 days ago
Has worked well enough for several years and keeps slowly adding new features, running on a server in Azure thanks to sponsorship credits.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 441 days ago
About 16 live sites with staging on Cloudways for over a year; amazing experience and support is a huge reason to stay.
Reddit · r/laravel · 449 days ago
They shipped a Blade and Alpine app on Cloud with small pages and optimized queries. Page navigation still feels slow, at 1-2 seconds in Chrome, even though Nightwatch request durations are low.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 450 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 453 days ago
Moved to Cloudways on a DigitalOcean server: saved money, better performance, and no hacked-site incidents since.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 459 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 459 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 461 days ago
A WordPress developer always hosts on Cloudways and likes its features, great support and ease of use.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 463 days ago
They compared the self-hosted options a while ago and settled on Coolify, saying none are perfect but it suits them.
Reddit · r/laravel · 476 days ago
They pushed support and worked with an engineer to find that their compute server had failed and was redeployed by monitoring, which took about 15 minutes. It was why nothing showed on the status page.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 476 days ago
During a bot attack that caused 503 errors, Cloudways chat support blocked the malicious IPs and rebooted the server.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 483 days ago
They name Cloudways on DigitalOcean as their favourite host.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 486 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Switched from WP Engine to Cloudways about a year ago with more transparent resource usage and easier scaling.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Moved about 100 client sites from WP Engine to Cloudways, scaling easily and saving a fortune.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Experienced WordPress host says Cloudways support sucks.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Cloudways premium support at 500 dollars a month is decent with senior techs on Slack, but there is no root access or stack customization.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Moved an enterprise client from WP Engine to Cloudways and found it easy for budget, caching and speed, though there is no root access.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 487 days ago
Personally loves Cloudways. Expressed as a plain personal opinion about the hosting provider in a thread about WP Engine alternatives.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 495 days ago
A Cloudways customer of years never has problems and finds support very responsive, paying about $120 a month for an 8GB server.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 496 days ago
Liked Vultr and Cloudways VPS hosting but neither was really that fast; moving clients to managed dedicated servers.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 497 days ago
Running the control panel alongside Linode servers and Wasabi storage for years has been rock solid.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 497 days ago
Felt outdated and basic with little innovation, though it was nice and worked.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 498 days ago
Trouble-free experience managing WordPress sites with zero issues and a helpful Circle community.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 498 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/laravel · 504 days ago
They ran a tiny API and test website and were surprised by a $70 bill, saying it was their last time.
Reddit · r/webdev · 508 days ago
While trying Coolify, a deploy failed and took down both Coolify and their site.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 519 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 536 days ago
Easier to use than Ploi with better WordPress site cloning, though backups can be finicky and some backup destinations require the top-tier plan.