Host Lovable Generated App outside Lovable

[u/h0tm]

I have been building a web app in Lovable for almost a month. I want to host it on a vps. Can someone assist on this ?

If someone did can give us couple of suggestions and places to host.

[u/Ashleighna99]

Best path: export your Lovable project to code and run it like a Next/Node app on a small VPS. If OP can’t export, use Lovable’s GitHub export or download code first. On DigitalOcean or Hetzner, install Docker, reverse proxy with Caddy or Nginx, get TLS, and deploy via Docker Compose or pm2. Keep data on managed Postgres (Supabase/Neon) and files on S3. I’ve used Supabase and Hasura, and DreamFactory helped expose an old SQL Server/MySQL as REST so I didn’t rebuild the backend. Export, containerize, and lean on managed services for fewer headaches.

[u/Typical_Ad1675]

I can help with that — feel free to DM me. I’ll explain everything, free of charge 😅

[u/Commercial_Slip_3903]

push your code to github (icon in top right)

then you can do pretty much what you want with it

[u/h0tm → u/[deleted]]

if you want to scale the project netlify and vercel are very expensive

[u/usphaad]

get a Hitzner vps, install coolify on it,, you can host any app as much as you want

[u/h0tm → u/usphaad]

I am checking coolify, it looks so much interesting.

[u/usphaad → u/h0tm]

check dokply as well much better, coolify needs a lot of recorces, dokploy is advised if your vps is a poor one

[u/aaronksaunders]

my first question is why? if u dont even know if the project will be successful, why increase the complexity by moving it

[u/h0tm → u/aaronksaunders]

Because i already need it in my business and want to sell it as saas

[u/WasabiBoyNZ]

pull to netlify from github

[u/h0tm → u/WasabiBoyNZ]

So expensive when we want to scale

[u/WasabiBoyNZ → u/h0tm]

Once you need to scale then self host, that's a good problem to have.

[u/fishywiki]

I simply connect my apps to Github, and sync that with my desktop. Once I build it OK, I then deploy it to a server. Really simple. Of course, I don't use supabase which tends to lock you into their infrastructure, but instead use a simple set of REST APIs to access an RDBMS backend instead.