Deploy Coolify on a $6 VPS in 15 minutes, timed step by step

说明与用途

Coolify 在 6 美元 VPS 上运行，只需添加 2 GB swap；安装耗时 172 秒，首次部署 210 秒。

问题

Can a $6 DigitalOcean droplet with 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM run Coolify, a self‑hosted Heroku alternative, for small team side projects?

结果

Coolify runs on a $6 droplet if a 2 GB swap file is added; installation takes 172 s, first app deploys in 210 s, memory peak 720 MB plus 669 MB swap.

工作流

• Create a $6 DigitalOcean droplet with Ubuntu 24.04
• Add a 2 GB swap file
• Run the official Coolify installer script
• Create root account and complete onboarding wizard
• Deploy a public Git repository app

证据

Short answer: Yes, Coolify runs on DigitalOcean's $6 droplet (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM) if you add a 2 GB swap file first.

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The install script took 172 seconds, the first app was answering HTTP requests 210 seconds after clicking Deploy

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Without swap the install still completes, but the first docker build of a real app pushes demand past 1 GB and the kernel kills a container. With swap the build gets slow instead of dying; we measured the peak below (669 MB of swap in use during the build).

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