Your Build Queue Is Idle 80% of the Day: Sizing a Git-Push Pool Without Paying for Peak
A git-push PaaS build queue is bursty by nature — peaks 4–6x the average. A fixed Hetzner pool sized for peak sits idle 78% of the day; sized for average, it queues 10+ minutes at morning burst. A worked comparison of three sizing strategies and the hybrid math that beats both.
Coolify Said No to VCs and Still Won: What a $5 Self-Hosted PaaS Teaches About the Repricing Treadmill
Coolify turned down VC funding and charges a flat $5 per month while Vercel repriced four times since 2024 and Render and Netlify abandoned per-seat billing — proof that a bootstrapped, Apache-2.0 PaaS prices to survive, not to return capital.
Coolify v4.0.0 Goes Stable: What a Two-Year Beta Promoted to Stable Actually Guarantees — and What It Doesn't
Coolify shipped v4.0.0 stable on April 27, 2026 after 468 beta tags, 57,000 stars, and production use by thousands — plus 11 disclosed CVEs. What the stable tag actually guarantees for upgrade and security, what single-host Docker architecture it leaves unchanged, and how to decide whether to pin it today.
Dokploy Switched to Plain Apache 2.0 on January 21, 2026 — Why a Late Cleanup Is Harder to Trust Than Starting Clean
Dokploy replaced its custom Apache 2.0 plus commercial appendix with clean Apache 2.0 core on January 21, 2026. A before-and-after of what changed, what still sits under DSAL, and why a retroactive fix is weaker trust than starting clean.
The 2026 DRAM Supercycle Is Permanent: What 'Not Cyclical' Means for Every Self-Hosted Hardware Bet
DRAM contract prices jumped 90-95% in Q1 2026 and another 58-63% in Q2 — and IDC says this isn't a cycle, it's a permanent reallocation of silicon toward AI. A worked cost table shows what the supercycle does to every 'self-host on a Hetzner box' comparison, and why the cost advantage over metered PaaS billing survives even as both sides climb.
Fly.io Added Two Billing Lines in 2026: What Metering Creep Costs Against a Flat Hetzner Box
Fly.io started billing for volume snapshots and inter-region private networking in early 2026 — no sticker-price hike, but two new dimensions to forecast. A line-by-line invoice for a real multi-region app shows what they add and why a flat Hetzner box is immune to metering creep.
Fly.io Is Killing GPUs on August 1: What Two Retreats in Three Years Say About Renting vs Owning Your Accelerators
Fly.io's A10/L40S/A100 GPUs go unavailable August 1, 2026 — its second GPU retreat since 2024 — while its jobs page sits at zero. A concrete migration math of where inference workloads land on rented GPU clouds vs owned bare-metal nodes, and why an owned GPU pool can't be sunset.
Fly.io Killed Its Subscription Tiers in 2024 and Kept Adding Billing Lines Through 2026: What Pure Usage-Based Pricing Actually Costs an Always-On App at Scale
Fly.io cut its Hobby/Launch/Scale plans in October 2024 for per-second usage billing, then added snapshot and egress-IP charges in 2026. A line-by-line model prices the same always-on app on Fly.io versus a flat Hetzner CX23 and shows why the forecast matters more than the sticker price.
Hetzner Raised Prices Twice in 10 Weeks: What Your Self-Hosted Fleet Really Costs Now
Hetzner raised cloud prices 30–37% on April 1 and up to 204% more on June 15 for CPX/CCX instances. A recomputed fleet model shows post-June costs at $63–78 on CX/CAX and $136–184 on CPX/CCX versus $75–150 on Render, Railway, and Fly.io at their own 2026 prices.