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Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) built especially for applications developers. When Heroku first launched in 2007 it was a platform dedicated to deploy and host Ruby applications. Today the offering has broadened and allows developers to launch applications for most languages, frameworks and technologies in a matter of minutes with the help of Heroku Buildpacks. There are currently over 5,400 Heroku Buildpacks in the Heroku Elements Marketplace, that can be used by developers to speed up deployment and saftley host their applications online.

Swarmlet is a free and open-source, self-hosted Platform as a Service that runs on any single server. It's mainly intended for use with multiple servers, a server cluster / swarm. Swarmlet is inspired by Dokku and brings the same simplicity to Docker Swarm. Swarmlet also uses Traefik v2 and Let's Encrypt to provide automatic SSL and load balancing on your apps.

CapRover is an free and easy-to-use application deployment and server manager for NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress and more. With CapRover you can create your own PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) similar to that of Heroku, and deploying it to your own cloud instance.

Virtualmin is a powerful and flexible web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. Virtualmin provides a cost-effective and comprehensive solution to virtual web hosting management. Virtualmin is avalible as a commnuity-supported version, while a commercial option includes premium support and more features. Currently, over 100,000 people and organizations use Virtualmin globally.

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration tool for Unix-like systems. You can use Webmin in any modern browser to setup and manage& user accounts, Apache web server, DNS configuration and alike. The software removes the mundane task of manually editing Unix configurations and allow you to easily setup hosting for applications, sites and web services.

aaPanel is a free and open source web hosting control panel. It's a simple, yet powerful control panel that provides one click installs for LNMP and LAMP development stacks through an intuetive graphical user interface (GUI). aaPanel was designed to help you save time when deploying web sites and applications to the web. Allowing you to focus on building your project, rather than focusing on installation and configuration of servers and tooling. Over 3 million people use aaPanel to create quickly deployable web environments for Apache HTTP Server, Nginx and OpenLiteSpeed.