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Ah I see. That's a fair point. With Heroku you delegate both (1) the server management and (2) the deployment aspects of an application. Dokku seems to solve (2

Ah I see. That's a fair point. With Heroku you delegate both (1) the server management and (2) the deployment aspects of an application. Dokku seems to solve (2), I hope someone will come up with an automated solution to turn a linux box into a secured application runtime. I use digital ocean apps and can't help but feel grifted, the price for what you're getting in specs is terrible compared to a VPS or a bare metal. The same is true with Render or Fly. But I just don't have the time or confidence to run my own server. I feel like there is an opportunity for huge savings here, I just need that fictional piece of software.

josegonzalez 4y ago
Yeah that makes sense. I really liked Triton from Joyent, as it provided a neat host os that could essentially be looked at as a multi-host docker installation but didn't run much else. You could then run the Dokku docker image on top of that and only really expose `nginx` (for routing) and `openssh` (for builds and interacting with Dokku), limiting your surface area. You can do this today if you wish on top of Alpine Linux or some other small host os, but that only takes care of half the problem (the other part being firewalls and detecting intrusion attempts imo).