A list of Cloudron-like services/ competitors

[fbartels]

@scooke said in A list of Cloudron-like services/ competitors:

Cloudron has spoiled me

One of the big selling points for me too.

The way i understood their model is that you install an app on your phone (there is also a desktop app if you prefer this). And this app then provisions a server at hetzner that is installed and configured through nix.

[adison]

@timconsidine i'll admit, despite the problems i had with it, it is pretty decent. without it i wouldn't be able to deploy my website, not to mention securely.

[adison]

in fact, if i'm bein honest, i never had a website untill cloudron came around. i had no priar experience in html. we went with linode wordpress, and that had close to no security configurations. not to mention, it didn't have any hsts/default ssl. when i started using cloudron, i noticed a big differents. i had hsts, ssl, everything basically. it seams to do better than linode marketplace

[scooke]

@timconsidine said in A list of Cloudron-like services/ competitors:

Trying to summon the motivation to try EasyPanel, but the nagging voice in my head keeps saying "but why bother? time is precious".

FWIW, I found it very easy to setup. It splits things up by having the user make a Project. Then, within the Project one can add Services (primarily DBs, but also just the name for a custom App), or, you can use Templates to install a common app from a list of 242. TWO HUNDRED FORTY-TWO. Since my own coding chops are low, I opt for the Templates, and use it primarily for the Rotki app, but also the usual WP, Ghost, etc.

One thing I like about it is a page wide Dashboard which gives basic info. For me, it is often the exact info I'm curious about, so it is handy (you gotta pay to see more).

[adison]

y'know, i'm thinking of posting a review of cloudron to my personal website. i actually once even tryed to get a sponcership with them because i liked what they were doing, and i never had the ability to really do anything like setup a website untill i found cloudron. in facgt, they actually power about 95% of my business and allows them to run. yeah we have some non cloudron services, but cloudron takes cair of about 95% of my business. i do remember my media guy who i won't mention actually having a referral link to his video (it was my link) in a video he did because, y'know, i thought, why not give the viewers a chance to explore cloudron, so i created a referral link. i might go ahead and do that when i make my cloudron review for my website

[jdaviescoates]

@adison yeah, I haven't actually paid for Cloudron for ages now because I've referred so many people! (although I need to refer some more as my credits balance is beginning to get low!)

[timconsidine]

@scooke despite my earlier comment, I did try Easypanel.
Yes, easy to setup, and 3 apps free.

Yes a large library of existing templates, but the ones that would interest me are already on Cloudron.
Interesting though that they have Langchain and Flowise

The stand-out feature is the ability to deploy straight from a Github repo (remember though to choose Nixpack as deploy methiod - not entirely clear).
Worked perfectly with one that I tested (Libreddit), not so well with another.

And Heroku package support, although I haven't tried that.

Interesting but doesn't displace Cloudron for me.

[adison]

@jdaviescoates aw. yeah, i'm gonna do my review on cloudron sometime today.

[adison]

kinda deserves it.
without cloudron, i wouldn't have a business, and i wouldn't have sutch an online presence. i wouldn't have any of that stuf.
not even jokin. i never had an online website, or could never even run a sefitient online business untill i had cloudron.

[adison]

i just made a reviw of this on my website.
https://adison.blindsoft.net/a-review-of-cloudron/

[jdaviescoates]

@adison I'd update your blog post to make the first link to Cloudron your referral link too if I were you

[nebulon]

@adison nice blog post! Regarding the missing button labels, I guess those are the ones which only have an icon and no text? If so, what's the best way to add the label information to the code for blind people?

[adison]

@nebulon honestly, i would put something like, (domain here) manage, for the lable so that its labled

[nebulon]

We usually put text labels in buttons where there is enough space. Otherwise we show an icon alone and a tooltip. I guess those button should have the aria-label attribute set? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-label

[adison]

ah. ok. by the way, do you guys wonna maybe see a full-on tutorial on how to set things up on the website? i can certainly make1for those who wonna know.

[adison]

hmmm, seams not many people wonna see me write a post about how to get started using cloudron. o well...guess not that many people are interested. i'll think about it, i might just do it out of boardm.

[jagan]

Zeabur: A new PaaS platform deploy service with one click (zeabur.com)
Apps Marketplace: https://github.com/zeabur/zeabur/tree/main/marketplace

[adison]

now that i think about it, i see (even though i'm a blind person i can still imagine seeing) cloudron as like your own wicks, your own hostinger, your own, uh, 000webhost, but its your own, and it has a lot of applications. y'know what? i think i will make a post about installing cloudron.

[necrevistonnezr]

@jagan said in A list of Cloudron-like services/ competitors:

Zeabur: A new PaaS platform deploy service with one click (zeabur.com)
Apps Marketplace: https://github.com/zeabur/zeabur/tree/main/marketplace

Interesting: „Zeabur can automatically analyze the code to determine what language and framework the project uses.“

[robi]

@necrevistonnezr yep, just like github can