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HatchBox vs octohost: What are the differences?

Developers describe HatchBox as "Super easy Rails servers". Configure any server to run Ruby on Rails servers in minutes and without hassle. On the other hand, octohost is detailed as "Simple web focused Dockerfile based PaaS server". octohost helps you host any web site by adding a Dockerfile to your app's source repository.

HatchBox and octohost can be categorized as "Platform as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by HatchBox are:

  • Choose your hosting provider
  • ActionCable
  • Automatic Databases

On the other hand, octohost provides the following key features:

  • Uses Dockerfiles rather than Procfiles
  • More than 10 languages supported already, and many frameworks
  • Support for Amazon, Digital Ocean, Rackspace

octohost is an open source tool with 444 GitHub stars and 32 GitHub forks. Here's a link to octohost's open source repository on GitHub.

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    What is HatchBox?

    Configure any server to run Ruby on Rails servers in minutes and without hassle.

    What is octohost?

    octohost helps you host any web site by adding a Dockerfile to your app's source repository.

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