Coolify alternative for PHP hosting

# About Coolify

Coolify is open-source server management software. It runs as a control panel on top of the servers you choose: Hetzner, DigitalOcean, AWS, Vultr and friends. You provision the instance, Coolify automates containers, deployments and SSL. The self-hosted edition is free without feature gates, and Coolify Cloud hosts the panel for a few dollars a month. It's one of the most-starred hosting projects on GitHub, and it earned the stars.

# Why not Coolify?

It's a good fit if you want full ownership of the box and you are fine handling OS patches, backups and incident response yourself. Coolify lists available package updates, but someone has to install them.

PHP on Coolify means building a Docker image: PHP version, extensions, FPM, OPcache, a worker and a cron entry. It works. It also drifts, and somebody has to own that Dockerfile when the next PHP version comes out. And you pay twice: for the server, and for the panel or your time.

# Why fortrabbit

Responsibility: We aim for less yak-shaving. fortrabbit abstracts the plumbing and gives you a single point of contact for billing and technical questions. See our legal section for the boring but important bits.

App hosting: Our platform is service oriented. You launch and scale apps, not servers. Read about our app hosting architecture.

PHP runtime: Tuned and version-pinned by us. No Dockerfile, and workers and cron jobs are dashboard settings.

Pricing: You pay for the app. Entry plans fit small sites, scaling stays predictable.

Human support: Talk to us in chat, not a bot and not a Discord thread at midnight. See our support features.

# Coolify and fortrabbit