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Daytona's Customer-Managed Compute: What 'Bring Your Own Hetzner Account' Actually Costs and Controls
·Dora Noda·9 min

Daytona's Customer-Managed Compute: What 'Bring Your Own Hetzner Account' Actually Costs and Controls

Daytona lets you point its control plane at your own cloud account instead of theirs. Here's what that customer-managed compute tier still costs, still controls, and where it's a genuine middle ground versus renting trust.

AI
infrastructure
engineering
self-hosting
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Dear Friend, You Have Built a Kubernetes: Why HN Keeps Resurfacing This Essay
·Dora Noda·8 min

Dear Friend, You Have Built a Kubernetes: Why HN Keeps Resurfacing This Essay

A 2024 satirical essay about hand-rolling a worse Kubernetes hit Hacker News again in 2026. Lined up against a real 2025 postmortem, the argument turns out to be a sharper pitch for owning Cluster API than any feature list — with the honest caveat about when it doesn't apply.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Deno Deploy Classic Shuts Down July 20, 2026 — and Takes Subhosting v1 With It
·Dora Noda·8 min

Deno Deploy Classic Shuts Down July 20, 2026 — and Takes Subhosting v1 With It

Deploy Classic and Subhosting's v1 API both die July 20, 2026 — the exact migration checklist, what Subhosting's isolation model actually took to build, and why letting a tenant resell tenants is a scope-creep trap for most git-push PaaS platforms.

PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
engineering
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Docker Hub's Pro Tier Jumped 80%, Team 67%: The Break-Even Math for Running Your Own Registry
·Dora Noda·9 min

Docker Hub's Pro Tier Jumped 80%, Team 67%: The Break-Even Math for Running Your Own Registry

Docker Hub's Pro and Team subscriptions jumped 80% and 67% in a repricing still in effect today. A line-by-line recompute of what that costs a 5- and 20-person team against running Harbor on a single owned Hetzner box, including the operational costs a "just self-host it" pitch usually skips.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
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EKS 1.33 Loses Standard Support July 29, 2026: What the 6x Extended-Support Markup Really Costs
·Dora Noda·9 min

EKS 1.33 Loses Standard Support July 29, 2026: What the 6x Extended-Support Markup Really Costs

Amazon EKS quietly enrolls aging Kubernetes 1.33 clusters into extended support at 6x the hourly rate on July 29, 2026 — here's what that markup costs in dollars, and what it actually costs to own the upgrade cadence with Cluster API instead.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
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Why Forgejo, Not Gitea, Is 2026's Default Self-Hosted Git Pick
·Dora Noda·8 min

Why Forgejo, Not Gitea, Is 2026's Default Self-Hosted Git Pick

In October 2022, Gitea's domain and trademark moved to a for-profit company without a community vote. Four years and one GPL license split later, most 2026 self-hosting guides default to the fork that split off, not the original. Here's the governance timeline, the honest feature tradeoffs, and what it means for a git-push PaaS picking a source-of-truth.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Haloy Cuts the Registry Out of the Deploy Path Entirely — Here's What That Actually Buys You
·Dora Noda·9 min

Haloy Cuts the Registry Out of the Deploy Path Entirely — Here's What That Actually Buys You

Haloy builds your Docker image locally, uploads only the changed layers straight to your server, and skips Docker Hub or GHCR entirely — here's exactly how that differs from Kamal and Dokku's registry-dependent deploy paths, and what it does and doesn't change for a Kubernetes-based fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Harbor's Garbage Collection Doesn't Block Your Registry Anymore — So What's the Real Cost Zot Is Actually Solving?
·Dora Noda·10 min

Harbor's Garbage Collection Doesn't Block Your Registry Anymore — So What's the Real Cost Zot Is Actually Solving?

Harbor's registry hasn't gone read-only during garbage collection since 2020 — the real cost of running it against a build-per-deploy pipeline is worker-bound reclaim lag, and here's what Zot's inline GC actually trades for it.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
engineering
Hetzner Killed the `datacenter` Field on Schedule. CAPH's Provider Code Survived — Its Vendored SDK Didn't Keep Up
·Dora Noda·9 min

Hetzner Killed the `datacenter` Field on Schedule. CAPH's Provider Code Survived — Its Vendored SDK Didn't Keep Up

Hetzner removed the datacenter field from its Server and Primary IP API on July 1, 2026. A code audit of Cluster API Provider Hetzner found its own logic was never at risk, but its vendored Go client is stuck on a release from before the fix, and the dependency bump has sat in a stalled, CI-failing pull request since June.

infrastructure
engineering
API
self-hosting
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