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Both Coolify and Dokploy are two of the most popular self hostable platforms as a service, and whilst they offer many of the same features and functionality, they each have some key differences.

Therefore, in the video, I decided to do a comparison of each platform, showing some of these similarities and differences, as well as talking about my own preferences.

Links:
- Coolify: https://coolify.io/
- Dokploy: https://dokploy.com/

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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:20 Coolify
00:03:09 Dokploy
00:04:50 VPS + Sponsor
00:06:18 Setting up VPS
00:07:22 Ease of Installation
00:11:03 Resource Usage
00:13:36 Resource Structure
00:15:29 UI/UX
00:18:42 Application Deployment
00:21:23 Databases
00:23:17 Feature Set
00:23:33 Preview Deployments
00:26:01 Notifications
00:28:40 Scheduled Tasks
00:29:12 Monitoring & Metrics
00:30:55 Traefik Configuration
00:32:37 Cloudflare Tunnels
00:33:34 Licensing
00:34:52 In Summary

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A detailed comparison between Coolify and Dokploy, two self-hosted platform-as-a-service solutions for deploying applications on VPS instances. The comparison covers installation ease, resource usage, UI/UX design, application deployment features, database support, and various production-ready capabilities. Dokploy emerges as the preferred choice due to better resource efficiency, more intuitive user interface, and superior production features, despite Coolify's advantages in open-source licensing and Cloudflare tunnel support.

Comparing Coolify to Dokploy: Why I chose one over the other