Using Cloudron since a few years now, both for professional and personal use, I can say i'm thrilled by the whole project & mission to make self hosting easy.
I've been using Cloudron for 3 years now, and it's just great ! Basically the convenience of a smartphone AppStore, but on your server for self-hosted apps
Hi everyone,
excited to be here now :-) Just wanted to share, if you want to get started easily without ever hitting the terminal, we have a pre-built Cloudron image in DigitalOcean marketplace at https://marketplace.digitalocean... and if you follow our promocode link at https://m.do.co/c/933831d60a1e you can even get started with free credits!
Hey Product Hunt,
Cloudron founder here. @nebulonb and I have been avid self-hosters for over a decade. We run apps for hosting our docs, email, files, chat on our own servers for privacy and control of our data. We know first hand how technical and borderline impractical this is :-).
Our vision is to bring the app management UX similar to what we have with smartphones to the server market. Any business (or individual) should be able to grab a server from AWS or DigitalOcean, install Cloudron on it and deploy apps. Cloudron provides 100% automated deployment (DNS, SSL, DB setup, Auth, Firewall, Containerization). We track upstream releases and provide automatic updates for apps. Finally, there is a central user directory that allows you to control access to apps. Your server is now a "Smartserver" :-)
You can try our demo at https://my.demo.cloudron.io (username: cloudron password: cloudron). See https://cloudron.io/get.html to install on your server.