Netlify is a managed platform for static sites and web apps with builds, a CDN, functions, forms and deploy previews, now billed in credits; these pages cover self-hosting sites with Coolify or open-core Dokploy.
Compares Netlify's managed builds, CDN, forms and functions with Coolify serving static and server-rendered sites from your own servers: build packs, preview deployments, redirects at the proxy, what replaces Forms and Functions, and how credit pricing compares with flat server costs.
Compares Netlify with Dokploy, the open-core self-hosted platform whose Static build type serves sites from NGINX and whose Nixpacks, Railpack and buildpack types cover server-rendered apps: preview deployments, multi-server setup, and the license split between the Apache 2.0 core and paid features.
Moving Netlify sites to Coolify: rebuilding with the Static, Nixpacks or Dockerfile build packs, translating _redirects and netlify.toml rules to the proxy, exporting form submissions and replacing Netlify Forms and Functions with your own services, and pull request previews.
Cost by component: Netlify plan fees and the credits consumed by deploys, bandwidth, requests and compute against servers, a CDN, optional Coolify Cloud or Dokploy fees and operations time, including the cost of projects pausing when credits run out.
What Netlify lets you take with you: a ZIP of any successful deploy, form submissions as CSV or through the API, Netlify Blobs through the paginated list method, and the gaps, such as deploy-specific blobs missing from deploy downloads.
Since September 2025 new Netlify accounts are billed in credits, and a team that runs out sees every project paused. This page covers what triggers the pause, how credit usage maps to deploys and bandwidth, and moving sites to a fixed-cost Coolify or Dokploy server.
Moving rules from Netlify's _redirects file and netlify.toml to the proxy in front of a self-hosted site: Traefik or Caddy in Coolify, Traefik in Dokploy or NGINX in a static container, with large redirect sets, wildcards and placeholders.
Replacing Netlify deploy previews and branch deploys with Coolify preview deployments for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea and Bitbucket or Dokploy's GitHub previews, including wildcard DNS, cleanup on merge and preview limits.
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