Self-hosted PaaS in 2026: revisit Coolify, Dokku and CapRover before you treat another VPS as a home-made Heroku

• Manoj Shukla
• November 7, 2026

Many teams still treat a cheap VPS as a home-made Heroku. They SSH in, paste a docker-compose.yml, open ports by hand, renew certificates when something breaks, and promise to “clean this up later”.