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Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io

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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.

PaaS
self-hosting
cost-optimization
cloud infrastructure
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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.

PaaS
cost-optimization
self-hosting
cloud infrastructure
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Proxmox VE Evaluations Up 340%: What the VMware Exodus Means for Your Next Cluster API Provider
·Dora Noda·14 min

Proxmox VE Evaluations Up 340%: What the VMware Exodus Means for Your Next Cluster API Provider

Gartner reports Proxmox VE evaluations up 340% as Broadcom's VMware bills rise 800-1500%. What Proxmox 9.1's OCI-to-LXC feature actually does, how CAPMOX compares to CAPH, and when a second Cluster API provider earns its place in a self-hosted fleet.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
migration
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Who Backs Up the Management Cluster? Rebuilding the CAPI Brain When It Dies
·Dora Noda·14 min

Who Backs Up the Management Cluster? Rebuilding the CAPI Brain When It Dies

Your workload clusters keep serving traffic when the management cluster dies — but nothing can scale, heal, or upgrade until you rebuild the brain. A line-by-line walkthrough of three recovery paths with concrete commands, the stale-state trap, and a quarterly drill to prove it works.

Kubernetes
PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
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Heroku Is in Sustaining Mode: What Staying Costs vs a €4.35 Hetzner Box
·Dora Noda·13 min

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.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
migration
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Railway's $5 vs Fly.io's $2: What the Cheapest Always-On Service Really Costs
·Dora Noda·13 min

Railway's $5 vs Fly.io's $2: What the Cheapest Always-On Service Really Costs

Railway advertises $5 with $5 credit, Fly.io a $2 shared-CPU box. Add a 10GB volume and 50GB egress and the cheapest always-on bill tells a different story — with a line-by-line recompute against a €3.79 Hetzner box.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
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Backblaze B2 Overdrive Promises Unlimited Free Egress: What It Actually Costs vs MinIO and Garage on Your Own Disks
·Dora Noda·13 min

Backblaze B2 Overdrive Promises Unlimited Free Egress: What It Actually Costs vs MinIO and Garage on Your Own Disks

Backblaze B2 Overdrive offers unlimited free egress at $15/TB/month. A worked comparison at 1 TB, 10 TB, and 100 TB shows where it beats standard B2 and R2, and where MinIO or Garage on Hetzner NVMe still wins on control and flat cost.

self-hosting
cost-optimization
infrastructure
PaaS
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Fly.io Is Killing GPUs on August 1: What Two Retreats in Three Years Say About Renting vs Owning Your Accelerators
·Dora Noda·10 min

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.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
AI
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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
·Dora Noda·14 min

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.

PaaS
self-hosting
cost-optimization
infrastructure
+1
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