DigitalOcean App Platform Alternatives

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.

Dokku is a free and open-source project that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications. With Dokku developers can setup their own PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) in a matter of minutes. Dokku provides extra plugins which can be used to manage database, and tools needed for your application. If you need to server your application over HTTPS, Dokku got you covered as well, with the help of Let's Encrypts free TLS certificates.

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.

M3O is a new cloud platform for quick and easy micro services development. With M3O your application can go from source to running and beyond in just ten commands. Write services locally, run them in the cloud, without the hassle of managing the infrastructure.

MaestroPanel is web hosting control panel that makes it easy to manage your server environment. MaestroPanel features an easy-to-use user interface which can improve the way you manage you manage your web hosting server.

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.

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.

ZPanel is a free web hosting control panel for macOS, Linux and Windows-based servers. With ZPanel it's easy to manage your server for web hosting related tasks such as setting up server environments, managing DNS reccords and configuring SMTP.  The software is written in PHP and released as open source software under the GNU General Public License 3.0.

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.

Adminer provides administrators, developers and website maintainers with a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. With Adminer you can to a database servers with username and password. List fields, indexes, foreign keys and triggers of table. Change name, engine, collation, auto_increment and comment of table. Alter name, type, collation, comment and default values of columns. Create, alter and drop indexes, foreign keys, select form view and call stored procedures and functions. The software is distributed under the Apache License which makes it free and open-source. Adminer supports a wide variety of relational and NoSQL databases including MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Firebird, SimpleDB, Elasticsearch and MongoDB.