2026-05-25

Coolify is great

Coolify can replace your entire Heroku free tier with $5

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Background

Heroku's free-tier pricing is confusing and can be expensive. However, if you have a set of websites that barely receive any traffic, a combination of Hetzner and Coolify is great.

How to:

Coolify already handles the domain + reverse-proxy + ssl. Just make sure domains have this comma-separated format

https://<app>.coolify.hesamian.com,https://www.<app>.coolify.hesamian.com

And to set up the domain:

Domain: hesamian.com

Name: coolify
Type: A
Value: <Hetzner Coolify server IPv4>

Name: coolify
Type: AAAA
Value: <Hetzner Coolify server IPv6>

Name: *.coolify
Type: CNAME
Value: coolify.hesamian.com