Self-Hosting Coolify: A Complete Guide to Your Own PaaS Platform (Laravel-Powered)

Coolify is a modern, open-source, self-hostable Platform as a Service (PaaS) that serves as a powerful alternative to Heroku, Vercel, Netlify, and Laravel Forge. Built primarily with Laravel (PHP), Livewire, Alpine.js, and Tailwind CSS, it enables developers and sysadmins to easily deploy static sites, full-stack applications, databases, and over 280 one-click services on their own servers.

May 8, 2026 · 6 min read

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