With over 15,000 GitHub stars and nearly nine years of active development, CapRover is the self-hosted PaaS that replaces Heroku's pricing with your own infrastructure while keeping the deploy-and-forget simplicity. The web dashboard manages application lifecycle from deploy through scaling — configure custom domains, environment variables, persistent volumes, instance counts, and nginx templates without touching config files or SSH. The CLI tool enables scriptable deployments with a single command from your terminal or CI/CD pipeline, while webhook-based deployment triggers automated builds from Git pushes. The one-click app marketplace provides over 100 pre-configured services including WordPress, Ghost, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Grafana, Portainer, and dozens more, each deployed as a Docker container with volumes and environment variables preconfigured. Automatic HTTPS provisions and renews Let's Encrypt certificates for every custom domain with one-click HTTP-to-HTTPS redirects. Under the hood, Docker Swarm orchestrates containers across multiple nodes for horizontal scaling and load balancing, while nginx handles routing with fully customizable EJS-generated configuration templates per application. Deployment supports four methods: CLI push, tarball upload through the web UI, Docker image reference, and Git repository connection. The build system supports Dockerfiles, captain-definition files with build packs, and direct Docker image pulls. NetData integration provides real-time server monitoring dashboards. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

A minimal Ubuntu 24.04 LTS virtual private server — no pre-installed applications, no opinionated configuration, just the operating system and root access. Start from a clean slate and install exactly what you need: web servers, databases, development toolchains, CI runners, monitoring stacks, VPN endpoints, game servers, or anything else that runs on Linux. The server ships with apt package management, systemd service supervision, and standard networking configured out of the box, giving you access to over 36,000 packages in the Universe repository alone. Connect via SSH with the key you select during deployment; a dedicated IPv4 address is included with every server at no extra charge. A browser-based serial console in the RepoCloud dashboard provides emergency access without an SSH client. Snapshots let you capture the server state before risky changes and roll back with one click. Resize CPU and RAM on demand without reinstalling. Canonical's standard security maintenance covers this LTS release through May 2029 — five years of patches for the Main repository. Ubuntu Pro extends that to ten years with additional Universe coverage, kernel livepatching, and compliance tooling, available free for up to five machines.