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by josegonzalez 3541 days ago
Ah, if only people backed Dokku monetarily[1]. I'd probably get my ass in gear and release the multi-server functionality I prototyped over the summer.

Nice to see that others are finding Flynn useful though, there is plenty of space for PaaS offerings, and I truly hope they are financially successful.

[1] My experience in this area is that it's hard to get peple to pay for something that is free, which dis-incentivizes work/releases. I'm not surprised that many use the free version of Flynn, or that there were a ton of Heroku users that left once they stopped getting free resources 24/7. Dokku does take donations - https://opencollective.com/dokku - but to be quite honest, it's almost certainly nowhere near even 1% the amount of money we've saved our users.

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As an aside, you might consider a tool similar to the docker tooling that can help manage multiple dokku hosts on different cloud platforms... People seem to be more inclined to pay for things like that.
I just want to say, that while I haven't financially contributed, that I do appreciate the work that has gone into dokku, and it's a great platform for self-hosting smaller projects on a single vm.
Jokes on us, Heroku side projects cost me like a grand since you guys launched :/
People seem more willing to pay for features upfront, so a Kickstarter might be a better way to fund the development of the multi-server functionality. I am yet to use Dokku for anything but I'd contribute to that Kickstarter. (Though I have to say that when I evaluated Dokku I loved how simple it was compared to the alternatives, so if Dokku gets multi-server support I hope it isn't at the price of its simplicity.)