Show HN: DockerHoster – Self-hosted alternative to Vercel with auto-deployments

Description and use

DockerHoster lets you host 20+ sites on a single $12/month VPS with automated GitHub deployments, supporting databases, cronjobs, and long-running processes without serverless limits.

Problem

The author needed a simple push-to-deploy workflow like Vercel but also required support for databases, cronjobs, and long-running processes that serverless platforms do not handle well.

Outcome

DockerHoster enables self-hosting of 20+ sites on a single VPS with automated deployments, full Docker ecosystem support, and no serverless limitations.

Workflow

• Set up a VPS with Docker and Docker Compose
• Install nginx-proxy and configure VIRTUAL_HOST routing
• Create a docker-compose.yml for each project
• Add a GitHub Actions workflow to the project
• Push code to GitHub to trigger automatic deployment

Evidence

I built DockerHoster after getting tired of paying per-project hosting fees.

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It’s a one-command setup that lets you host 20+ websites on a single $12/month VPS with automated GitHub deployments.

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The problem: I wanted the simplicity of Vercel’s "push to deploy" workflow but needed to run databases, cronjobs, and long-running processes that serverless platforms don’t support well.

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DockerHoster uses nginx-proxy to automatically route traffic to Docker containers based on VIRTUAL_HOST.

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You just copy a GitHub Actions workflow and docker-compose.yml to any project, and it deploys automatically on push.

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