I love Coolify for personal projects, but it's not ready for production/business projects yet. You can't really compare it with Render, Railway or Fly.

Some reasons why I wouldn't use it for critical infrastructure:

- It doesn't have high availability options (if a server goes goes down, your service goes down)

- It doesn't handle backups

It is great for excellent for anything non critical though

That's true, I don't run very important apps on there but even still, I can create backups myself and create multiple Coolify instances behind a reverse proxy if needed. It would be useful to have everything in one service though.

Exactly, I wish European mobile makers had adapted faster in the late 2000s.

We most likely wouldn't have to deal with the cyber moral police, and total lack of privacy we deal with now (which this is part of)

*With CBT, the user putting a lot of trust in the app and this feels like a violation of the trust before anything starts.*

My exact feeling here.

I felt the same as this comment, it's off putting. Marketing tactics everywhere using information we enter in a survey. No pricing shown until the end. University logos to show social proof. I'm sure it's a well thought product, but in some ways it looks scammy. It also looks wildly overpriced for an automated product, comparing it to an actual doctor you can talk to is a fallacy. By the way, how can we delete our information if we don't buy and we got to the end of the survey? Thanks!

Thanks for sharing this. One of the best pieces I've read on the topic, it's sad to see society's shift in this regard. I agree with you, and we can't know yet what the consequences of this will be in the long term. It seems like it matters less and less how good we are at what we do, and more and more what "class" we are considered to be in.

In my view there are few things more rewarding than taking control of our lives, and stop blaming others for our own shortcomings.

I'm glad you enjoyed it, I agree entirely about the reward in finding a sense of agency of ones own life. The mentality I wrote about has a way of robbing us of our independence and leads to a deeply rooted unhappiness. I truly believe it to be a major contributor to so much of the turbulence in the world today.

Mmm, "privacy-friendly". It asks for a phone number (it's mandatory during sign up), which can only be obtained with an official ID...

They even ask you to download their proprietary app and send them a picture of your actual ID:

https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2144/blocked-order

privacy !== anonymity

> privacy !== anonymity

Why not?

With the same reasoning you could deny selling people food unless they show you their government ID.

Would you consider such an abomination a country where privacy still exists?

If you strip people from basic anonymity for no sane reason they have no privacy.

If all you want is to prevent people from signing up infinite accounts then have them solve a bazillion captchas or pay a token amount of cryptocurrency, but don't ask them to connect their account to completely unrelated private information.

Email operates independently of cell phone numbers, so it shouldn't be required to connect yours to your mail address.

I did not say you do not deserve anonymity. I simply disagreed with the OP who laughed at a possibilty of any kind of privacy unless complete anonymity was guaranteed. While not arguing regarding the validity of the proposition above, I simply wanted to highlight that those are two different concepts that have two different entries in a thesaurus.

Example everyone can relate to: when you go to a doctor, they look at your medical history and in most cases you need an appointment first. This means your visit is no longer anonymous. However, I think everyone agrees that you still deserve privacy with respect to the details of your visit.

Privacy is the control to choose what kind of things about yourself you would like to expose.

If that control is gone there is no privacy.

So there is no privacy in your home because someone somewhere knows who lives there?

I agree with what you say. The difference is that you consider a provider your adversary when it comes to the task of that control and I consider a GDPR-respecting company to be my partner in that attempt (yes, I know who Snowden is) to control [what kind of things about yourself you would like to expose].

> only

I vaguely remember Google making moves toward killing it, but last I tried it, Google Voice let you get a number without providing any ID whatsoever.

And only postpaid phone plans require ID in the US.

The context is Switzerland. In Switzerland, and much of Europe (except the UK, CZ, and several other countries), current ID is required to get a mobile phone number. Even on a postpaid plan after proving identity, anyone with indefinite residency must keep their status up-to-date.

The US and aforementioned European countries (among others)/are better about this because anyone can just get a SIM/number.

as an e-mail hosting provider myself asking for phone validation is one of the most effective tools against spammers which use company I work for infrastrucure to spread their spam

The formerly world leading innovator has basically become a rent seeking bully.

I would suggest Woocommerce. It has a huge community with almost any plugin or theme you can think about. I am not sure it makes sense to do it in your case, as you are likely to spend more time on the store, and less growing your business.

Some managed hosting options at different price levels: Kinsta.com WPXhosting.com SiteGround.com NameHero.com

Some themes, plugins, that can help you get up and running quickly: Elementor.com kadencewp.com/product/kadence-woo-extras/ wpastra.com/woocommerce/ commercegurus.com/product/shoptimizer/

Some other useful links to get you started: woocommerce.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions/ youtube.com/channel/UCjDuxPEhNQ2qn_qAdjRG4YQ/videos

That's unlikely to work. You are still putting all your eggs in one basket. This seems to be a variation of the setup this company has/had.

Unless you are using different browser profiles or installations, and IP addresses for each account every single time you use them, it's very easy for Google to see that requests are coming from the same computer. If you were shut down, they would be able to do it as in the example, all accounts closed at once.

Well, it works somewhat. I keep my main email account separate from adwords, adsense, GA (although I now replaced it by Matomo, there is no reason whatsoever to use GA now), and Google Play. Ditto for their other services. I had a problem with one of the accounts a while ago - Google didn't "recognize the device" (this often happens as I have strict browser cleanup policies) and I lost access to the account because it was linked to a phone number I lost 10 years ago and forgot to change the number in the account settings. In this case, I lost access to just one account and I didn't care that much. If I used one account for everything I'd have gone mad.

> different browser profiles or installations, and IP addresses for each account

People underestimate power of IP tracking. Use VPN. Plus, a must, have uBlock Origin in medium blocking mode (3p-scripts and 3p-frames blocked). Today EVERY website makes several google*.com API calls.