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Jan 15, 2023 — Migrating from Dokku to DigitalOcean Apps
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
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
This was expanded from Running Slack Bots on DigitalOcean with Dokku.
Feb 15, 2016 — Backing up MongoDB Databases in Dokku Containers to Dropbox
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
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...