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Deploy on your own terms.

Compare deployment tools for your own VPS. Start with Coolify: choose who runs the dashboard, then see the server and platform costs together.

Self-hosted dashboard

Coolify Self-hosted

Run the Coolify dashboard on your VPS. Deploy from Git, manage Docker services and configure HTTPS.

No software license fee; server costs are separate. You maintain the dashboard, OS, workloads and backups. Official host minimum: 2 cores, 2 GB RAM, 10 GB free disk. VPSYOU adds a planning reserve of 1 GB RAM, 0.25 vCPU and 10 GB disk for the panel, in addition to workload and OS allowances. This is not measured consumption; builds can need more.

Official setup guide
Software / dashboard fee

$0.00/mo

VPS and workload backups are separate.

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Cloud-hosted dashboard

Coolify Cloud

Coolify hosts and updates the dashboard; your apps and data run on servers you provide.

Monthly billing: $5 per month includes two connected servers; each additional server adds $3 per month. This planner prices one workload VPS and one Cloud subscription. Server rental, workload backups and taxes are separate. Cloud manages the control plane; you still maintain server security and workloads.

Official setup guide
Software / dashboard fee

$5.00/mo

VPS and workload backups are separate.

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Deployment tools

Your servers. Your workloads. A choice of control plane.

VPSYOU illustration · The dashboard coordinates deployments; applications and data run on your VPS in both models.

Advice from the community

@sven_ai
Collected by VPSYOUSelection adviceCoolifyDeployment

Recommends that independent developers with a VPS consider Coolify for GitHub deployments, HTTPS and Docker service management; server rental is still paid separately.

A tool-selection suggestion. The post does not explicitly describe the author using Coolify or report measured savings, performance or reliability.

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