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Hi, first of all, thanks posting this! If strongly recommend you make this available on these three platforms: DigitalOcean Marketplace, Cloudron and Softaculous. Having a one-click installation option in DigitalOcean is going to give you more leads, and IMO the hottest “host it yourself” platform now is Cloudron. Folks who run Cloudron are extremely helpful so they would help you with it. Not really sure about DigitalOcean and Softaculous.

I’m subscribing for the lifetime option, and wish you all the best!

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with Softaculous, DO or Cloudron, just thankful towards everyone who took the time to make one-click options available.

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Hi, thanks for the suggestions.

I searched for a long time to find the best way to distribute userTrack, and the best solution I found was to use DigitalOcean + cloud-init to automatically set-up the script. One problem I kept encountering was that most platforms only allow open-source software in their marketplace (I discussed this with some folks at DigitalOcean and they said I would need at least a free version of the product).

I was also looking over Cloudron lately as it kept showing in HN threads, and I think I will contact some people there to get more info on the compatibility between my product/pricing structure and their marketplace. I also looked over Docker, but again, the product should be in the public Docker registry. Maybe I can somehow put only the installation script in the Docker public registry, but I'm not sure if this is common/allowed.

This is one reason why I think self-hosting is harder than it should be: there is no common way accross hosting providers to easily distribute an application, most of them have their own marketplaces with their own rules, requirements and custom configs.

Thank you a lot for the purchase, it really means a lot! Hopefully, in the near future, enough people would purchase userTrack so I can afford to start planning for an open-source release.

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