- Jan 15, 2023 — [Migrating from Dokku to DigitalOcean Apps](/2023/01/15/migrating-from-dokku-to-digital-ocean-apps.html)

In 2016 I moved half a dozen apps from Heroku to a DigitalOcean droplet to save money. I found dokku, a docker-powered PaaS. It was already quite mature, and worked flawlessly. ...

- Jan 20, 2020 — [Restoring Data into a MongoDB Dokku Container](/2020/01/20/mongorestoring-data-into-dokku-mongodb.html)

I’ve been running a pet project using Dokku on DigitalOcean for a number of years with MongoDB, backing up data into Dropbox. See Running Slack Bots on DigitalOcean with Dokku a...

- Jul 27, 2018 — [Installing and Upgrading MongoDB in Dokku](/2018/07/27/installing-and-upgrading-mongodb-in-dokku.html)

This was expanded from Running Slack Bots on DigitalOcean with Dokku.

- Feb 15, 2016 — [Backing up MongoDB Databases in Dokku Containers to Dropbox](/2016/02/15/backing-up-mongodb-databases-in-dokku-containers-to-dropbox.html)

I’ve recently moved my Slack bots to Dokku running on DigitalOcean. The bots use local MongoDB database containers provided by the dokku-mongo plugin. Here’s the entire setup, f...

- Feb 8, 2016 — [Running Slack Bots on DigitalOcean with Dokku](/2016/02/08/running-slack-bots-on-digital-ocean-with-dokku.html)

Slack bot experimentation, especially for not-too-serious purposes, has become a little too expensive on Heroku. There’s no free tier for maintaining apps running 24/7, so the d...