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Show HN: Simple Docker Hosting

63 points by jonas_scholz 4 days ago | 62 comments

Hey HN!

We launched sliplane.io, where deploying Docker containers is super simple and wallet-friendly.

With our Pay-per-Server approach, you can host as many containers as you want on each server at a set price - no huge surprise bills, just straightforward Docker hosting.

You simply connect your Github repository and we do the rest that you expect from a PaaS, SSL by default, automatic deployments, backups of your storage etc. Pricing starts at 9€/month for 2vCPU, 2GB RAM, 40 GB Disk, 2 TB Egress.

Cheers, Jonas

dax_ 4 days ago

I'm confused by the pricing, why is going from Base to Medium more than double the price? It's cheaper to get two base tier servers and distribute containers instead, which is unusual.

I like the idea of the service though, but pricing is not that attractive for me currently.

jonas_scholz 4 days ago

Yeah fair point, its a bit confusing. We really wanted to have the cheapest price under 10, and just kept the other prices at a point that make this business sustainable for us. Pricing is hard :D

jazzyjackson 4 days ago

I had a good experience using https://coolify.io/ for this, I think it's a good business model to resell VPS with a friendly interface, basically what cPanel is right?

Personally I think the price is high given the free alternative, but would pay it if you made some kind of security guarantees around one docker container not pwning the others, maybe you marketing can emphasize that self hosting docker containers is a footgun if you don't know what you're doing.

jonas_scholz 4 days ago

Copying from another reply: I love coolify and I think they are doing amazing work! In the end it mostly comes down to convenience I'd say. With coolify you are still responsible for more things like migrating away if your host decides to die. I think a lot of people also chose us because we have pretty good support

Re footgun: Yes, just dont want to start with fear mongering marketing :D

jazzyjackson 4 days ago

Yea true, best to avoid FUD, but security can be a big upsell over self managed FLOSS for some.

nurlennart 4 days ago

I remember seeing your posts about sliplane on my X for you page. Cool stuff.

All the best for you and your project!

jonas_scholz 4 days ago

Thanks!

revskill 4 days ago

How about docker compose deployment for multi services talking via private network ?

jonas_scholz 4 days ago

docker compose is one of our most requested features, we're working on that!

revskill 4 days ago

Hehe, that would accidentally kill kubernetes as a service from giant PAAS to me ;)