Comment by Humphrey

Love this! That said, I achieve the same thing manually using Docker Compose & some shell scripts. It takes a bike longer, but it has forced me to learn the lower level tools that helpers like Sidekick use.

Also, all of these tools have great documentation on getting up and running, but SIGNIFICANTLY LESS INFO ON HOW TO MAINTAIN OVER THE LONG TERM. If I was going to start using a tool like Sidekick, Kamal, or Dokku I would want clear answers to the following:

- How do I keep my VPS host up and running with latest security updates? - How do I update to more recent versions of Docker? - How do I update services that maintain state (eg. update to a new Postgres version) - How do I seamlessly migrate to a new host (perhaps as a way to solve the above)? - How should I manage and serve static resources & user media? (store on host or use cloud storage?) - How do I manage database migrations during an update, and how do I control that process to avoid downtime during an update?

I just spent an entire evening transferring a side project to a new VPS because I needed to update Postgres. The ideal self-hosting solution would make that a 20 min task.