I can't sing the praises of Dokku enough these days. I'm a developer who ran a constantly with a few partners for several years and now I have a day job. I used to maintain about 8-10 VPS scattered all over, with Puppet, but when I took the full time job I moved some clients off and the rest to a single dedicated server, still configured with Puppet and kind of let it sit for awhile.
This wasn't a good place to be so I decided to clean it up and instead of running with Puppet again, I decided to check out PaaS solutions and I couldn't be more pleased with Dokku, I'm currently running JIRA, Confluence, Rails, Node.js, Go, PHP and several static (with middleman/jekyll/etc) sites on a modest VPS at Digital Ocean and I love that I don't have to think about overhead anymore when spinning up new projects. Just `dokku apps:create` and `git push` and it's done. The killer features for the migration for me have been the storage feature for specifying mounts for apps that aren't 12f friendly and the biggest one of all is the Letsencrypt plugin. It's so easy to setup SSL/TLS for new apps that it just feels wrong.
Dokku is amazing, and I'm looking forward to sending some funding to the maintainers.
Edit: forgot to mention in addition to all those apps, I'm also running the necessary backing services, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and Elasticsearch and Kibana.
This wasn't a good place to be so I decided to clean it up and instead of running with Puppet again, I decided to check out PaaS solutions and I couldn't be more pleased with Dokku, I'm currently running JIRA, Confluence, Rails, Node.js, Go, PHP and several static (with middleman/jekyll/etc) sites on a modest VPS at Digital Ocean and I love that I don't have to think about overhead anymore when spinning up new projects. Just `dokku apps:create` and `git push` and it's done. The killer features for the migration for me have been the storage feature for specifying mounts for apps that aren't 12f friendly and the biggest one of all is the Letsencrypt plugin. It's so easy to setup SSL/TLS for new apps that it just feels wrong.
Dokku is amazing, and I'm looking forward to sending some funding to the maintainers.
Edit: forgot to mention in addition to all those apps, I'm also running the necessary backing services, MySQL, Postgres, Redis, and Elasticsearch and Kibana.