Upvote and review Cloudron on all the "alternative to" type websites to help grow the team and community

[marcusquinn]

I'm sure we all search for "{app name} alternatives" plenty.

I'm also sure we all benefit from Cloudron having more subscribers and growing the team and community.

Therefore, may I suggest a thread for links to places people are finding Cloudron or similar and using all the goodwill, and many people here, to help with some good old-fashioned organic marketing and pr for the cause.

I've added a review and rating here (surferking):

https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/

Post any other links and I'm happy to do the same, I'm sure we almost all are. Always genuine reviews - but you don't always get if you don't ask

[Hillside502]

@marcusquinn said in Upvote and review Cloudron on all the "alternative to" type websites to help grow the team and community:

I've added a review and rating here (surferking):
https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/

No sign of your surferking review at:-
https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/
https://alternativeto.net/user/surferking/

[marcusquinn]

@Hillside502 Odd, maybe only I can see it for a while - I guess some moderation delays perhaps

Hope others will add reviews because frankly Cloudron has already given me great hope for solving so many things I'd written-off as too time-consuming before.

I just joined a random Discord server recently and the attitude in there was so weird after the pleasure of esteemed company in this forum. What you have here really is quite special from all my years of app hunting, testing and churning.

[subven]

From the outside, Cloudron seems like an underdog but I think for most of the people it's good enough. If I compare costs and efforts for hosting and updating apps and infrastruture to what I have to do at the company I work for to do the same (with Ansible, Terraform, Docker Swarm etc.) than cloudron is mind blowing.

[marcusquinn]

@subven Ditto to that!

[marcusquinn]

The strange things is there's an amount of Sys Admin ego involved in trying Cloudron because it might appear to be making the long-hand way redundant - but really it's just such a time-save and ready-to-go PaaS that it's necessary to scale all that capability in a repeatable way by others - and a Sys Admin's job should always be to make routine tasks and reinventing wheels redundant. The best people to work with continually make work redundant because I keep giving them more work to do the same with

At first, my instinct was for "what about high availability & kubernetes" but then rediscovered the joys of single-server management. If you screw something up on a HA setup, you just have many copies of the mess anyway, and most of it is just re-inventing RAID & backups.

Old but interesting thread on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229522

[marcusquinn]

Get Cloudron some Upvote love on the Integromat App Requests list:

https://www.integromat.com/en/requests/new-app-requests/p/cloudron-self-hosting-paas

And Mailtrain too if you like:

https://www.integromat.com/en/requests/new-app-requests/p/mailtrain-foss-alternative-to-campaignmonitor-etc

[Hillside502]

@marcusquinn
Hooray, AlternativeTo has now made public your surferking review --- upvoted by me (Natterjack565). But, they're slow to add it to your user profile.

https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/
https://alternativeto.net/user/surferking/
https://alternativeto.net/user/natterjack565/