Vercel is popular for frontend deployment, but build limits, bandwidth caps, and vendor lock-in are concerns. devpick lists 3 alternatives for building deployment infrastructure on your own VPS.
- Reduced hosting costs with equivalent deployment environments on ~$5/month VPS
- Vendor lock-in avoidance by deploying as standard Docker containers
- Git push deployment in Coolify and Dokku for automatic deploys on push
- Automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt certificate management across all tools
- Multi-app hosting with multiple applications on a single server
3 tools
coolify
52,764PHPApache-2.0
An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
Open Core
dokku
31,938ShellMIT
A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications
Free
caprover
14,960TypeScriptNOASSERTION
Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids
Free
How to Choose
For GUI management choose Coolify, for simple PaaS choose Dokku, and for lightweight setup choose CapRover.