Escape the Cloud Vendor Lock-in: Build Your Own Heroku with CoreOS and Dokploy

This article tackles the pain points of cloud hosting costs and maintenance, exploring the trade-offs between expensive VPSs and convenient serverless solutions. The author proposes a middle ground: combining CoreOS (a stable, secure, and maintenance-free container OS) with Dokploy (an open-source CI/CD tool similar to Heroku) to transform a VPS into a low-cost, easy-to-maintain platform. Dokploy simplifies container orchestration, deployment, and log management, offering a PaaS-like experience while retaining the cost advantages and independence of a VPS. This approach is suitable for developers with some technical experience who want to balance cost and convenience.