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AppFog vs Dokku: What are the differences?

What is AppFog? Simple PaaS for Java, Python, Node, .Net, Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Mongo, and PostgreSQL. AppFog provides the infrastructure web developers need to build apps without worrying about IT tasks or having to wait days to get servers ready for writing code. AppFog’s web application technologies include PHP, NodeJS, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

What is Dokku? Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash. Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.

AppFog and Dokku can be primarily classified as "Platform as a Service" tools.

"The basic plan is free" is the top reason why over 3 developers like AppFog, while over 20 developers mention "Simple" as the leading cause for choosing Dokku.

Dokku is an open source tool with 17.7K GitHub stars and 1.44K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Dokku's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of AppFog

Pros of Dokku

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Allocate multiple instances to one app for free
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The basic plan is free
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Pricing by memory size
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Great for startups
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10 Free instances

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Simple
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Open Source
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Built on Docker
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Free
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Yay, it works like a charm
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Git deploy
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HTTP proxy from public hostname to container IP address
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Zero downtime deploys

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What is AppFog?

AppFog provides the infrastructure web developers need to build apps without worrying about IT tasks or having to wait days to get servers ready for writing code. AppFog’s web application technologies include PHP, NodeJS, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

What is Dokku?

It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.

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Jobs that mention AppFog and Dokku as a desired skillset

Staff Software Engineer, Configuration Management

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Staff Software Engineer

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Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Content Integrity & Quality

San Francisco, CA, US; Palo Alto, CA, US; Seattle, WA, US

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Staff iOS Software Engineer, Advanced Technologies Group

San Francisco, CA, US; , US

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Staff Software Engineer, ML Training

San Francisco, CA, US; , CA, US

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Software Engineer II (Backend), Data Encryption

Postman

Bangalore, India

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Senior Platform Engineer, (Distribution)

Bangalore, India

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What are some alternatives to AppFog and Dokku?

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

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