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Dokku

Smallest PaaS you'll ever see (git push deploy)

provisional — pending verificationMITself-hostable
Arete score
4.5 / 5
Autonomy5
Return4
Efficiency4
Transparency5
ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →
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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending.

Why it's listed

Dokku is listed in self-hosting platforms & paas because it competes on utility: smallest paas you'll ever see (git push deploy). It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed MIT; pricing: free / pro. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License
MIT
Pricing
Free / pro
Funding model
Indie OSS
Self-hostable
Yes — deploy difficulty: medium
Replaces
Heroku
Verification
Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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