Best docker hosting on Reddit

107 reviews from r/docker, r/selfhosted, r/HomeServer and 7 more subreddits

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#1

AWS

4.5
(17)
"AWS now has windows Fargate for windows containers."
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"Definitely a good idea to mess around with it, you’ll learn a lot in the progress."
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"The way to go"
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"Can do what you need"
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"AWS Lambda"
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"Sounds like it does what you want"
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"Extremely powerful and easy to setup"
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"Build a base image in AWS with docker installed and other dependencies. Use that to build an AMI to deploy your boxes"
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"90% of everything runs on Aws"
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"Also a good solution managed by AWS"
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#2

DigitalOcean

4.9
(7)
"We love DigitalOcean and use them for everything."
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"Great"
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"Docker pre-set up"
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"AWS is a sound choice, as are Azure, Google Cloud Platform and DigitalOcean."
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"Can do what you need"
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"Cheap"
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"Reasonable prices"
#3

Docker

4.3
(8)
"Running containers on a VM with nginx or traefik routing HTTP traffic to the right container"
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"Amazing"
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"Can use a true Linux kernel to run docker containers (no VM)"
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"If you're looking for a docker registry: harbor"
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"Compose is generally used for deploying a stack of containers, like an app container and a DB container side-by-side. There are benefits of compose with a single container, but they're not that common."
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"More information online for Docker for Linux than for Windows"
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"Solid"
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"Some not so small problems that can really piss you off"
#4

Google

4.6
(5)
"Deploy any docker image"
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"Easiest and quickest way to deploy and run a container in production"
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"90% of everything runs on Google"
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"Switched to"
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"Orchestration"
#5

Unraid

5.0
(4)
"Running great, opportunity to learn something new"
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"Amazing"
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"Moving my docker installs over to UNRAID"
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"Offers pre-built installs for containers as well as docker hub search functionality"
#6

Azure

5.0
(3)
"AWS is a sound choice, as are Azure, Google Cloud Platform and DigitalOcean."
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"Azure Serverless"
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"90% of everything runs on Azure"
#7

VirtualBox

5.0
(3)
"Easy, light and well documented"
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"On ramp learning"
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"Run a linux virtual machine on your windows computer using any hypervisor for free (virtualbox, hyper-V, vmware player workstation...)"
#8

Heroku

4.7
(3)
"Cronjob-like feature + billed by seconds of usage"
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"Hands-off"
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"Free. No frills though."
#9

Oracle

4.7
(3)
"I second Oracle free tier"
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"I second Oracle free tier"
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"Free tiers"
#10

Amazon

3.5
(4)
"Prepaid plans with Amazon"
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"Pickup a t2 micro free tier plus ~$70 prepaid plan I think may cover you for 3-4 years of compute"
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"Use Amazon's ECS to deploy and scale your containers."
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"Free tiers"
#11

Sloppy.io

4.5
(2)
"Free let's encrypt certs for your custom domain, loadbalancing, failover, persistent volumes and more."
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"I really enjoy it"
#12

GitLab

4.5
(2)
"Having a versioning system is good in any case"
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"Look at Gitlab and its CI/CD integration with a small Kubernetes cluster or Google Container Engine."
#13

Raspberry Pi

4.5
(2)
"Tinker-friendly"
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"Buy a pi (raspberr"
#14

Kubernetes

4.5
(2)
"At the state you're at in your j"
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"Great but potentially too much overhead at your size"
#15

Linode

4.0
(2)
"Linode is also good."
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"Reasonable prices"
#16

Mac

4.0
(2)
"Excellent form factor"
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"Works fine (apart from the Docker Mac bugs)"
#17

Hyper

5.0
(1)
"None"
#18

Ubuntu

5.0
(1)
"Ubuntu is a great operating system for servers."
#19

Cloudflare

5.0
(1)
"For hosting you could even front end it with Cloudflare to offload some load"
#20

Upboard

5.0
(1)
"Docker hosting at home"
#21

Fabio

5.0
(1)
"I also run Fabio load balancer"
#22

Cycle

5.0
(1)
"Completely container native, bare-metal and has a great interface"
#23

Kontena

5.0
(1)
"Very developer friendly container platform containing everything you need to run containerized applications (built-in image registry, load balancing, secrets management, VPN etc)"
#24

HashiCorp

5.0
(1)
"Fantastic"
#25

Dokku

5.0
(1)
"Self hosting"
#26

Kitematic

5.0
(1)
"First started playing around with docker on windows 10"
#27

Katacoda

5.0
(1)
"Use any online free training services like [https://www.katacoda.com/courses/docker](https://www.katacoda.com/courses/docker)"
#28

Linux

5.0
(1)
"Much easier and it works perfectly"
#29

GCP

5.0
(1)
"Can do what you need"
#30

Minecraft Container

5.0
(1)
"The best advice I can give you is check out some tutorials on hosting a Minecraft Container. That’s by far the most commonly hosted game and you’ll find the best resources there on how to handle storage etc."
#31

Google Cloud Platform

5.0
(1)
"AWS is a sound choice, as are Azure, Google Cloud Platform and DigitalOcean."
#32

Ryzen

5.0
(1)
"Shouldn't need that"
#33

NUC

5.0
(1)
"Better performing"
#34

Hetzner

5.0
(1)
"Happy"
#35

Oracle Cloud

5.0
(1)
"If this is for personal use, Oracle Cloud will give you a free VPS forever (or so they say)."
#36

HP

5.0
(1)
"Superior for much the same price"
#37

Windows

5.0
(1)
"Fixed a lot of the issues I was having with traditional docker windows"
#38

Apple

5.0
(1)
"Using Apple hardware for non-Apple OS almost always has...interesting outcomes."
#39

Red Hat

5.0
(1)
"HA Proxy built in"
#40

Raspberry

5.0
(1)
"Kubernetes cluster"
#41

Terraform

5.0
(1)
"Use Terraform with Terragrunt to turn your AWS infrastructure into code. Use that to build out and deploy your development environments in a consistent way."
#42

NVIDIA

5.0
(1)
"Apply the driver fix to allow infinite streams"
#43

Apache

5.0
(1)
"Running great"
#44

Consul

4.0
(1)
"With Consul"
#45

Nomad

4.0
(1)
"If you want to run containers, I prefer to use Nomad"
#46

Portainer

4.0
(1)
"Portainer is a user-friendly Docker management tool."
#47

Docker-CE

4.0
(1)
"Docker-ce is a powerful containerization platform."
#48

Jenkins

4.0
(1)
"Setup Jenkins or some other CI/CD tool to automate your build and deployment process"
#49

Swarm

4.0
(1)
"Decent option for small scale, not overly complex"
#50

Vultr

4.0
(1)
"Reasonable prices"
#51

Docker Compose

4.0
(1)
"Generally used for deploying a stack of containers, like an app container and a DB container side-by-side"
#52

Aruba Cloud

4.0
(1)
"Rent a cheap VPS and build your custom dockers. For example the 2,70€/month on arubacloud: [https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/virtual-private-server-range.aspx](https://www.arubacloud.com/vps/virtual-private-server-range.aspx)"
#53

Rancher

4.0
(1)
"Large RDS and at least 3 large app servers"
#54

Synology

2.0
(1)
"Easier/cheaper"

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