Deploy Django without managing servers

How does Appliku compare to Heroku, Render, or Coolify?

Unlike hosted platforms, Appliku runs your app on a server you own, so you control the cost and avoid lock-in. Unlike self-hosted tools, we manage the server for you, so patching and backups never become your job.

See the full, honest breakdown on our comparison pages.

How does the deployment work?

Appliku fully takes care of setting up your server, installing all required packages and configuring web server with SSL certificates via Let's Encrypt.

All the configuration is done via our dashboard. For most of the apps standard build images are enough to run. All you need to do is specify processes commands, set environment variables and build command.

You can use a custom Dockerfile is your app requires specific libraries and/or build process.

With help of special command `release` in application processes you can specify the command or a script that will be executed after deployment of a new version of your app.

Can I run multiple applications on one server?

Yes, you can run as many apps as you want on a single server as long as the server has enough resources.

Keep in mind, that build process also requires resources to run, so make sure your server has some spare resources, especially RAM.

Can I have production/staging environment for an application?

Yes, you can create as many apps from the same repo as you want and select the git branch for each of them. They can be on the same or different servers.

How apps are executed and can I have multiple processes running on the same server?

For single server deployments:

• - Nginx is installed into the operating system and proxies requests to the port of your apps' web processes.
• - Apps are running in Docker containers
• - An application can have only single web process, which responds to HTTP requests
• - Apps can have multiple other processes that don't receive HTTP traffic (queue/background workers/etc)

For cluster deployments:

• - Nginx is installed in the cluster and passes traffic to web processes of apps
• - Apps are executed within Docker Swarm
• - Nginx sends traffic to the DNS name of the web process and Swarm takes care of the load balancing
• - For cluster deployments having a container registry is required. By default, the one from the git provider (GitHub/GitLab) will be used. The app's image is built and pushed to container registry and then distributed to all cluster nodes.

What databases are supported?

Appliku allows you to create Postgres, Postgis, Redis, Mysql, RabbitMQ.

Databases are running in containers on your severs. You can create as many databases as you need as long as server has enough resources.

Can I specify environment variables for the application?

You can specify environment variables in the application settings. They will be available during the build time as well.

I already have an app running elsewhere. Can you help me move it?

Yes. Every paid plan includes a free done-for-you migration. We get your existing app running on a server you own, live on a screen-share, usually in one session. Coming from Heroku is what we do best.

How Appliku communicates with the server? Does it install any additional software for this purpose?

All communication with your server(s) is done via SSH. We don't install any additional apps to your server for the purpose of server management.

Can I access the server via SSH?

Yes, you can connect to the server via ssh by using the app or root user(or other sudo user used during setup, e.g. "ubuntu" for EC2/Lightsail instances).

You must add your public key to your user's profile in Appliku. Keys of all team members will be added to ~/.ssh/authorised_hosts on servers within your team.