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Railway Prices Compute in Scientific Notation: What $0.000463 per vCPU-Second Actually Costs a Month
·Dora Noda·13 min

Railway Prices Compute in Scientific Notation: What $0.000463 per vCPU-Second Actually Costs a Month

Railway's $0.000463/vCPU-minute is $20 per vCPU per month — but only if you catch the unit. A worked table converts Railway's per-second and per-minute rates to monthly costs for four real workloads, shows why legibility is its own billing risk, and prices the same stack on a flat Hetzner box.

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Render's $1.5B Valuation and a 20× Bandwidth Cut in the Same Quarter: Who $0.15/GB Egress Is Actually Priced For
·Dora Noda·13 min

Render's $1.5B Valuation and a 20× Bandwidth Cut in the Same Quarter: Who $0.15/GB Egress Is Actually Priced For

Render raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation in the same quarter it cut Hobby bandwidth 20× — from 100GB to 5GB at $0.15/GB overage. A worked table prices 5GB to 5TB on Render Hobby/Pro/Scale against a Hetzner CX22's flat 20TB to show who the new meter is actually priced for.

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Vercel at $200 vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Framework-Agnostic Cost Teardown
·Dora Noda·16 min

Vercel at $200 vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Framework-Agnostic Cost Teardown

The same Next.js SSR + API workload lands between $20 and $200/month on Vercel Pro once invocations, ISR and edge middleware meter separately — versus €3.79 flat on a Hetzner box with no per-request billing. A line-by-line teardown of where the bill actually moves.

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Cloudflare Containers vs a €4 Hetzner Box: What a Container Next to Your Worker Actually Costs
·Dora Noda·16 min

Cloudflare Containers vs a €4 Hetzner Box: What a Container Next to Your Worker Actually Costs

Cloudflare Containers bills per 10ms with scale-to-zero; a Hetzner CX23 costs €3.99 flat with 20TB included. Three workloads priced line by line show when the edge container wins and when the owned box wins — and why it is a latency versus predictability tradeoff.

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Fly.io's $2.02 Machine Isn't Your Bill: The Five Metered Lines That Double It
·Dora Noda·16 min

Fly.io's $2.02 Machine Isn't Your Bill: The Five Metered Lines That Double It

Fly.io's $2.02 Machine is the headline, not the invoice. A line-by-line reconstruction of what volumes, egress, egress IPs, snapshots, and private networking add to a real app — and what the same stack costs flat on Hetzner.

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The Four PaaS Pricing Pages You Must Re-Audit in Q3 2026: Railway, Render, Fly, and Vercel After Active CPU
·Dora Noda·14 min

The Four PaaS Pricing Pages You Must Re-Audit in Q3 2026: Railway, Render, Fly, and Vercel After Active CPU

Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel all moved their meters in 2026. A same-workload, line-by-line bill recompute across all four — plus the flat Hetzner baseline — shows where costs really diverge.

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Fourteen Criteria, Ten Platforms, Three Bills: When Railway and Render Stop Being Cheap
·Dora Noda·16 min

Fourteen Criteria, Ten Platforms, Three Bills: When Railway and Render Stop Being Cheap

Selko's July 2026 evaluation scored ten platforms on fourteen weighted criteria and priced the same app at $0-10, $40-60, and $200-500 — then we verified every live 2026 meter and ran the break-even math on when flat bandwidth beats per-GB billing.

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Hetzner Doubled Your x86 Bill and Barely Touched ARM: The CAX Cost-per-vCPU Recheck
·Dora Noda·14 min

Hetzner Doubled Your x86 Bill and Barely Touched ARM: The CAX Cost-per-vCPU Recheck

Hetzner's June 15, 2026 repricing hit CPX and CCX with 113-175% hikes while CAX rose only 30%. A line-by-line cost-per-vCPU recompute, fleet math that turns the gap into thousands per year, and which workloads move to ARM without a rebuild.

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Hetzner's Second Price Hike of 2026: Why Your CCX Fleet Just Got 169% More Expensive
·Dora Noda·15 min

Hetzner's Second Price Hike of 2026: Why Your CCX Fleet Just Got 169% More Expensive

Hetzner's June 15, 2026 hike tripled CCX and CPX while CX and CAX rose 35%. A line-by-line recompute of what a CAPH fleet costs on the wrong family versus the right one — and how to fix your MachineDeployment default.

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