Personally the main advantage is to simply spin up new ones with the same setup. You can also do that by yourself but imo it includes way more managing and time compared to exe

I have a Hetzner box with Caddy too.

The difference with exe.dev is multiple VMs. I have over 20 now with isolated apps, branches of the same app, etc.

> Yes it takes a bit of work but it isn’t that bad.

Agreed, it takes a few hours to set up everything. But just did it with Claude the other day, and I was up and running in no time! :-)