How I Set Up a HomeLab on a VPS (Contabo + Coolify + Cloudflare)

Описание: Welcome to my HomeLab tour! Today I’m showing you exactly how I host my applications, databases, and monitoring tools using a Contabo VPS and Coolify.

This setup gives me total control over my infrastructure without the high costs of PaaS providers. I'll walk you through my Cloudflare Wildcard DNS setup, how I automate SSL certificates, and how I deploy private GitHub repos with just a few clicks.
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Video Chapters
00:00 The Hardware: Why Contabo VPS?
01:05 Installing Coolify (The Control Center)
02:20 Cloudflare & Wildcard DNS Magic
03:50 Automatic SSL & Traefik Proxy
05:10 Deploying from Private GitHub Repos
07:15 One-Click Apps (ELK Stack & More)
10:00 Real-time Monitoring with Beszel
12:30 SSH & Backend Terminal Access
14:15 Why this is better than PaaS

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The Tech Stack:

Provider: Contabo (Ubuntu 24.04)

Orchestration: Coolify (The Open Source Heroku/Vercel)

Networking: Cloudflare + Traefik Proxy

Monitoring: Beszel (System resources)

Apps Shown: Elastic Stack (ELK), Kibana, Dockerized Node.js apps.

Key Features of this Setup:

Zero-config SSL for every subdomain.

One-click deployments for 100+ apps.

Real-time resource monitoring via Beszel.

Automated Webhook deployments from GitHub.

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