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3 self-hosted DigitalOcean alternatives

Cloud infrastructure provider offering virtual machines (Droplets), managed Kubernetes, managed databases, object (Spaces) and block storage (Volumes), load balancers, networking (VPC, firewalls, floating IPs), container registry, and developer tools for deploying web applications and services.

Alternatives to DigitalOcean

Open-source, self-hostable PaaS to deploy websites, full-stack apps, databases, and Docker services on your own servers with Git-based CI/CD workflows.

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61.1k stars5.4k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

CapRover is an open-source platform to deploy, manage and scale apps using Docker and nginx with a web UI and CLI, automatic SSL, one-click databases and clustering support.

15.1k stars995 forkslast commit Actively maintained

FreedomBox is a personal server platform that makes it easy to install and manage privacy-respecting apps at home, including chat, VPN, file sync, web hosting, and backups.

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What replacing DigitalOcean actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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