Self-hosting and Coolify
drodol • 12 Jul 2024 •
Yesterday was the end of two gruelling days trying to setup Coolify on a Hetzner server.
First, Hetzner servers' Ubuntu update mirrors were syncing, which meant I couldn't run apt upgrade on the server (because there were errors).
I created and deleted a dozen servers in the process (good thing is you are not charged).
Then, I got all messed up with SSH keys, or so I thought.
I was following a tutorial on Youtube, and well, I was a little bit impatient.
After setting up the server using a cloud config file, and as soon as I saw the server had been created and was live, I wanted to immediately SSH into it.
It of course gave me errors. I needed to wait until packages were updated and all commands were run before I could log in.
A few minutes later, I could easily log in and continue with the process of installing Coolify.
Now that it's installed, I will attempt to move denmarkforexpats.com from Render to my own server and see how that goes.
Next up will be jobsinenglish.dk, which has a few more moving pieces with redis, celery, flower on top of Django and Postgres.
Comments
How’s Coolify so far? What’s the top few features you love?
I have it running on an ARM server, a beefy one. After trying it out yesterday, I think it’s too much for what I need. I will get rid of it.
@drodol What are you looking for?
Well, I didn’t know until now. I thought I needed some complicated setup to manage my deployed apps. But I think the conclusion came after realising that despite me not being a terminal wrangler expert, I actually feel quite comfortable in the terminal, so I don’t need a UI like Coolify (which is still in active development) eating up 2 CPUs to manage my deployed apps.
Wow 2 CPUs. So the conclusion is unless your set up is complex, maybe Coolify is over-engineering? For simple indie sites, just terminal will suffice?
(Asking cos heard so many good things about Coolify, just wondering if I should try)
I think the UI is nice, but since it is in active development, there can be bugs. Also, there is not a lot of documentation, so if you get stuck, well… Watch the last part of the Coolify video from Syntax. The guy gives his own reasons why he WILL NOT to use Coolify. I am no expert like him, but I agree.
True… new tools are great if it’s a hobby project for fun, and you like to play around with tech. Not so great if we just wanna ship something
i heard good thing about coolify, and the best part is it seems like work on ARM server.