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.