[dewey]

There's a good list here: https://dbohdan.com/self-hosted-paas

I'm always looking for new alternatives there, I've recently tried Coolify but it didn't feel very polished and mostly clunky. I'm still happy with Dokku at this point but would love to have a better UI for managing databases etc.

[wg0]

Okay could you please share your thoughts as a user:

- What databases you want to work with?

- What functionality you want from such a UI?

- What database size we are talking here?

Asking because I am tinkering with a similar idea.

[dewey]

Thanks for asking. I think one barrier with self-hosting is still that setting up a database isn't as easy as on DigitalOcean / Supabase. I'm an experienced self-hoster but running my own database still sometimes makes me a bit anxious as I have to set up scripts to do backups, set up scripts to see if my backups are being done correctly, set up metrics to see backups sizes, database sizes etc.

I just wrote this up here, in case someone else can point me to an existing project I'm not aware of: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/what-i-wish-existed-for-se...