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by learningmore 31 days ago
Why not Dokku, Coolify, or CapRover?

Those are broader self-hosted platforms. They build apps with Dockerfiles or Buildpacks and run them in containers.

pack is intentionally smaller. It builds your app into a single-file executable, deploys it to your server, gives each deployment a persistent HTTPS URL, and handles ports, routing, and inactive deployments