Dora Noda
Software Engineer
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Docker Hub Raised Prices 80 Percent, Then Cancelled Rate Limits — Why Your CI Still Needs a Mirror
Docker Hub raised Pro 80 percent and Team 67 percent, then cancelled planned pull charges — but 100 pulls per 6 hours still blocks burst CI. A line-by-line cost and failure-mode comparison of paying Docker, riding free-tier limits, or running Harbor as a pull-through cache on hardware you already own.
Hetzner Raised Prices Three Times in 2026 — The RAM Shortage Behind Your Next Bill
Hetzner repriced cloud servers three times in 2026 — 30% in April, then 113–175% on dedicated vCPU in June — driven by a DRAM shortage as HBM for AI accelerators crowds out DDR5. Here is the timeline, the wafer math behind it, and what it does to a Cluster API fleet's real bill.
The Egress Tax: Why the Same 500 GB Costs $0 or $60 Depending on the Logo on Your Invoice
A 500 GB/month image-heavy workload costs $0 on Cloudflare R2, $8 on Fly.io North America, $36 on AWS S3, and $56 on Fly Africa — same bytes, 127x spread. A line-by-line recompute across seven providers, sensitivity at 50 GB to 20 TB, and why zero egress still leaves a self-hosted S3 as the honest hedge.
AWS Still Charges $0.09/GB — But Your Egress Bill Tripled Anyway
AWS egress is still $0.09/GB in 2026. A worked recompute shows why a mid-traffic SaaS app pays 3-7x more for the same product shape, and what that traffic is worth on Hetzner's 20TB-included hardware.
AWS Fixed the Network in 20 Minutes. Your App Stayed Down for 10 Hours.
AWS restored routing in 20 minutes on July 24, 2026, but downstream providers stayed down for 10 more hours. Why a provider's green checkmark understates tenant recovery, the three mechanisms that stretch a blip into a workday, and how a single-tenant fleet on owned Hetzner hardware recovers differently.
Every Step Now Has a Price Tag: What Cloudflare Workflows' Per-Step Billing Means for Your Orchestration Budget
Cloudflare Workflows starts billing per step on August 10, 2026 — turning every sleep, event wait, and retry into a line item. Three worked pipelines show where the meter moves first and when owning the orchestrator on a flat Hetzner box costs less.
Fly.io Halved L40S to $1.25/hr — Then Scheduled GPUs for Deletion on August 1
Fly.io cut its L40S GPU to $1.25/hr and then deprecated all GPUs after August 1, 2026. A line-by-line market comparison shows why rented GPUs look cheap until they disappear — and when owned Hetzner hardware wins on cost and control.
Fly.io Sprites at $0.07 Per CPU-Hour: Why Zero When Idle Still Cost $35,000 for 200 Sandboxes
Fly.io Sprites charges $0.07 per CPU-hour only while active — idle is free. Yet a 200-sandbox benchmark put Sprites at $35,000 while Northflank hit $7,200 and a Hetzner fleet costs under €900. The math of idle ratios explains why.
Heroku Is in Sustaining Mode: What Staying Costs vs a €4.35 Hetzner Box
Salesforce put Heroku in sustaining mode in February 2026 — no new Enterprise contracts, no new features. A line-by-line bill shows the cheapest always-on Heroku app still costs $12/month next to a €3.79 Hetzner CX22 with 20TB included, and the gap widens with every app.