[pgm8705]

I've tried several times to migrate a few apps I have from Dokku to Kamal because I've been intrigued by all the hype in the Rails community about it, but I've always given up after an hour or so of unsuccessful tinkering around. Maybe it is just because it's what I'm used to, but the Dokku experience is so much better than Kamal.

[dewey]

Kamal also only recently became interesting after they added the feature where you can host multiple apps on the same server.

[ydnaclementine]

Exactly. But I'd love to hear what the next step after dokku is. But maybe it's just moving the db to another, separate vps, and spinning up more instances of the service all pointing at that db instance, with all of that using dokku.

[pgm8705]

I'm of the opinion that a single VPS can take you a very long way. Once you get to the point where you've outgrown that model, you're likely making enough money where something like Digital Ocean App Platform, as another commenter suggested, would be money well spent.

[spiffytech]

One option is that Dokku can orchestrate k3s and Nomad. I don't know how well it works, but it sounds like it gives you the same simple ops interface with a clear incremental migration path to horizontal scaling.

[dbishai]

I’ve had pretty good experience with Digital Ocean’s App Platform. That’s how I’m hosting https://blogmate.io, a side project of mine.

[claudiug]

I use dokky for years, and now kamal. kamal is better for my, better documentation, i like the declarative way of setup my machines.