[spiralpolitik]

Exactly.

Dokku looks great but what is the value of using it over "run your container" platforms like Google Cloud Run, Digital Ocean App Platform, or Fargate.

[pastorhudson]

One benefit for me was that a vps with 2vcors and 2-4gig of ram is about the same price as one of these app engine services. So I can run 3 or 4 dokku apps including Postgres, redis, memcache connected to them on my own vps and still have margin when inspiration strikes. I moved a production app from heroku to dokku and saved hundreds a month and still got tons and tons more compute.

[hmaxdml]

In terms of money it might end up cheaper for the infra itself (especially if it runs in your garage)

In term of your personal time, well, you'll not grow a business on it without hiring people to maintain it or spend a lot of time doing devops