Super useful. Makes the Hetzner choice a strong one for me.

Turning these two css settings off improved the UI/UX of the blog a thousand times:

pre { margin: 2rem 0 !important; padding: 1rem !important; }

Each code block has such giant padding and margins that you can only read 3 lines of text in a viewport.

Also, I would suggest installing Webmin/Virtualmin which takes care of a lot of issues like deploying new subdomains or new users.

Kinda weird - Coolify doesn't come up except in the first and last paragraphs. Seems like the page is incomplete or just mis-titled.

Cool guide

https://hostup.se/en

Is much cheaper than hetzner and still in Europe.

  Hetzner
  CX22  vCPU 2 4GB 40GB 20TB Traffic € 3.79 
 
  Hostup
  VPSXS vCPU 2 4GB 50GB  2TB Traffic € 3.54

This is the best example of documentation I’ve seen posted here in a very long time.

The production app setup section should probably be replaced by Docker. Much more repeatable and easier to configure these days.

Hetzner is great, but it has some minor region problems and SLO issues, so you want to have a fallback to degrade gracefully.

I set my clients up with Hetzner for the core, and front it with Cloudflare. You can front KEDA scaled services with Cloudflare containers and you're pretty much bulletproof, even if Hetzner shits the bed you're still running.

OVH is just as reliable as Hetzner, and right now they have a much cheaper offer: https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/configurator/?planCode=vps-2025-...

Aside from that, which distro would you choose for Coolify? I’m debating between Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13.

Hetzner has been a very reliable provider for our hosting. We combine it with Cloud 66 for server hardening and deployment automation at a fraction of the cost of a PaaS

Every step to improve raw hosting as an alternative to full cloud offering is a blessing.

Cloud pricing no longer makes any sense.

I recently migrated one of my FreeBSD servers to hetzner and it was a breeze. The only wrinkle was that, until you've completed a billing cycle, you can't host an email server as the required ports are blocked.

For me this was fine and I understand why they do this but it wasn't clear to me at the start.

Great summary for beginners like me! Definitely bookmarking it.

One negative feeling however is that the author didn't mentioned Coolify in the article while being stated in the title :(

Another good article on the same topic that I have already bookmarked is: Setting up a Production-Ready VPS from Scratch (https://dreamsofcode.io/blog/setting-up-a-production-ready-v...)

To expand my knowledge on this topic, generally, after I finish reading this type of content, I copy the article link, put it in an LLM and prompt it:

"here's an article on 'topic name/article title': https://article.link. Grasp it, analyze it then expand each section mentioned from your own knowledge. Add additional sections relative to the subject"

it is even simpler then that: hetzner has a pre-build coolify/ubuntu image you can use on server setup/buying process

I recommend Kamal or Cloud66

I clicked the article because I wanted to hear about Coolify, but its not mentioned at all beyond the article tag, intro, and closing statements. I don't think Coolify should be mentioned at all.

This article is really about preparing a VPS for Coolify deployment, but stops short of Coolify setup AFAICT