When comparing Coolify vs Back4App, the Slant community recommends Back4App for most people. In the question“What are the best self-hosted BaaS (backend-as-a-service) providers?” Back4App is ranked 1st while Coolify is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Back4App is:
The platform is reliable allow to scale up the applications running on it.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Free
Pro Build systems support
As soon as a Git repository is connected with one of these technologies, it will be detected:
Static sites.
NodeJS based apps.
PHP
Svelte
VueJS
NuxtJS
Gatsby
Astro
Eleventy
React
Preact
NextJS
NestJS
Rust
Docker
Pro Open source
Back4app is an open source BAAS and Backend generator.
Pro Smooth migration from Parse
Back4App offers a smooth migration for all former Parse users who wish to migrate their data now that Parse has announced that it will stop soon.
Cons
Con Uses MongoDB for the backend, which is not considered very safe by many
Back4App uses MongoDB as the database where data is stored. Mongo has been known to have issues with data corruption and data loss.