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Based on our record, Dokku seems to be a lot more popular than Back4App. While we know about 12 links to Dokku, we've tracked only 1 mention of Back4App. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I'm using back4app.com which is a cloud service for parse server, you can fire cloud code using node. Recently they introduce containers, but I didn't use it. Source: about 1 year ago
Yeah there are a bunch of selfhostable things: Caprover (https://caprover.com/) Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
Considering other orchestration tools like dokku, dcos, deis, flynn, docker swarm, etc.. Kubernetes is no where near to them in terms of lines of code, on an average those tools are around 100k-200k lines of code. Source: over 1 year ago
Other interesting projects to also follow: * Caprover * Dokku. Source: over 1 year ago
If I could make a recommendation, it would be to give Dokku a try. (Disclaimer: not affiliated, but like the project so much I sponsor it. My opinions are biased towards it.). Source: almost 2 years ago
My next favorite option is to host on a DigitalOcean VM. You can use Dokku to get your own mini-Heroku PaaS, or manage the VM yourself (following Microsoft's documentation). You can get a $100 60-day credit from a referral link - A good way to get started. Source: almost 2 years ago
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