https://koyracloud.com/blog Self-hosting a PaaS on Docker Swarm — push-to-deploy, custom domains, workers, and moving off Vercel and Heroku onto your own hardware. en https://koyracloud.com/blog/building-koyracloud-in-public https://koyracloud.com/blog/building-koyracloud-in-public Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Building a self-hosted PaaS solo: the two-half control-plane/pipeline architecture, the NFS design I got wrong first, and every feature I said no to on purpose. https://koyracloud.com/blog/deploy-fastapi-react-homelab https://koyracloud.com/blog/deploy-fastapi-react-homelab Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A concrete walkthrough: the .paas/app.yaml manifest for a full-stack Python+Node app, build vs predeploy, build-time env traps, push-to-deploy, and adding a worker later. https://koyracloud.com/blog/you-dont-need-kubernetes https://koyracloud.com/blog/you-dont-need-kubernetes Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The push-a-repo-get-a-URL loop most people want doesn't require Kubernetes. Why Docker Swarm plus a thin PaaS layer is the right amount of machinery for a homelab. https://koyracloud.com/blog/migrating-off-vercel https://koyracloud.com/blog/migrating-off-vercel Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The two genuinely fiddly parts of moving Next.js to your own hardware — the Dockerfile and the apex domain — plus the build-env, pnpm, and email traps that bite everyone. https://koyracloud.com/blog/self-hosted-paas-docker-swarm https://koyracloud.com/blog/self-hosted-paas-docker-swarm Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT What a self-hosted PaaS actually is, why Docker Swarm is a sane base for one, and what you get over hand-rolling compose, Traefik and a registry yourself. https://koyracloud.com/blog/open-source-vercel-alternative https://koyracloud.com/blog/open-source-vercel-alternative Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Vercel's developer experience is genuinely good. Here's what you keep and what you give up when you self-host that git-push-to-URL loop on your own metal. https://koyracloud.com/blog/self-hosted-heroku-alternative https://koyracloud.com/blog/self-hosted-heroku-alternative Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Procfiles, dynos, config vars, Scheduler and the Redis add-on — mapped onto a self-hosted PaaS you run on your own Docker Swarm. https://koyracloud.com/blog/push-to-deploy-git https://koyracloud.com/blog/push-to-deploy-git Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Connect a repo once, push, and it builds an image and ships it — or deploys only after your CI goes green. How the pipeline works, with live logs and rollback. https://koyracloud.com/blog/background-workers-and-cron https://koyracloud.com/blog/background-workers-and-cron Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Declare always-on workers, scheduled jobs and a per-app Redis bus in one manifest, off one image — with run history, a Run-now button and no catch-up storms. https://koyracloud.com/blog/custom-domains-automatic-https https://koyracloud.com/blog/custom-domains-automatic-https Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Point a record, a certificate appears, it renews itself, you forget about it. Platform subdomains via Traefik and custom domains via Cloudflare for SaaS. https://koyracloud.com/blog/apps-into-images-not-nfs https://koyracloud.com/blog/apps-into-images-not-nfs Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT We tried serving app code over NFS. It bit us. Here's the rewrite to per-app container images and an internal registry — and why it removed more code than it added. https://koyracloud.com/blog/homelab-paas https://koyracloud.com/blog/homelab-paas Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most homelab hardware sits mostly idle. Closing the gap between 'I have servers' and 'I can ship to them like a small cloud' — so a new idea costs almost no friction.