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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.

cPanel is an industry leading web hosting automation platform. For over 20 years cPanel and WHM has remained the leading platform for managing shared web hosting and virtual private servers. With cPanel, you can create and automate all server management tasks, allowing you to focus on empowering your customers and build every facet of their website experience.

Cloudron immutable infrastructure platform that makes it easy to run and maintain web applications on your server. It allows you to easily migrate your apps across servers and cloud providers. Due to the complexity of self-hosting applications, Cloudron was built, so that you can focus on building and using your apps instead of worring about system administration and DevOps.

Laravel Forge provides instant PHP servers and Laravel Hosting without the nightmares of server management. With Laravel Forge you can provision and deploy unlimited PHP applications on DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Amazon, Hetzner and other cloud hosting providers. Forge includes an easy to manage user interface that automatically links to your supported cloud hosting provides, or allow you to provision a Virtual Private Server (VPS) or use a custom provider of your choice.