Coolify

Selecting the ideal self-hosted Platform as a Service (PaaS) in 2026 involves carefully weighing the strengths and trade-offs of Coolify and Dokploy. Technical professionals often face challenges when choosing between these options, especially when limited by VPS resources and seeking a developer-friendly interface. As one user noted, “Dokploy is a much better choice than Coolify….

I recently published a guide on deploying n8n queue mode with Docker Compose on a VPS. It works—but it requires manual reverse proxy configuration, SSL certificate management, and healthcheck debugging. Hours of setup before your first workflow even runs. Then I discovered Coolify could handle all of that automatically. Same queue mode architecture. Same 7x…