Dora Noda
Software Engineer
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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.
Hetzner Just Tripled Its Best VMs: What the 2.7x Price Shock Does to Self-Hosting Math
Hetzner raised CCX and CPX cloud servers 2.1x to 2.75x on June 15 on top of April's 37% hike. A line-by-line repricing of the same Node.js plus Postgres workload against Railway, Render, and Fly.io's 2026 meters shows the gap narrowed — but the flat box still wins once egress is counted.
Hetzner's New -Ltd Tier: What Lower-Cost Hardware Really Trades Away
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 standardization added a cheaper -1-Ltd tier built from lower-cost components alongside fixed -1/-2/-3 types. Here's what the discount actually buys, what variance it introduces, and why a Cluster API fleet should not default its node pool to it.
Kubero's PaaS on Kubernetes: What a Dashboard Over kubectl Actually Solves — and What You Still Operate Yourself
Kubero gives you a polished PaaS surface on Kubernetes — git-push deploys, pipelines, and add-ons without Helm — but it assumes you already own a healthy cluster. Here is exactly what the dashboard automates, what it leaves you holding, and where a Cluster API fleet closes the gap.