Mattermost was created as a free and open-source alternative to Slack, but over the years they also added an “Enterprise” paid version, with more features. It can be a bit confusing, because the free and open-source version is called “Team Edition”, but the Enterprise one also has a free plan. Mattermost makes it very easy … Read more
When we started Bixoto.com, we chose Magento for the website because at that time it was the best open-source platform for ecommerce with an API to deal with supply and catalog, and later to go headless. In July 2023, we replaced 99% of the frontend with SvelteKit, and kept only some essential pages in Magento for now. This … Read more
At Bixoto we have a lot of apps deployed using Dokku and we are very happy with it. However, for some complex apps we would like to be able to use docker-compose.yml files, but Dokku doesn’t support them. Back in February, we deployed a Coolify instance on a new server. Coolify looked like a good … Read more
While setting up a self-hosted single-server Coolify installation to test it as an alternative to Dokku, I was struggling with a strange intermitent SSH connection issue: when saving the configuration of the server, I would sometimes get a success message, but most of the time the following error: I tried to change the server IP/domain … Read more