68 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
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.
Netlify Killed the Seat Tax: What Two PaaS Giants Ditching Per-Seat Fees in Nine Days Says About Who Pays for Team Size
Netlify killed per-seat pricing on April 14, 2026 — nine days before Render's April 23 workspace overhaul did the same. Why two VC-backed PaaS vendors walked away from the seat tax in the same month, what it costs at 1, 5, 20 seats, and why a self-hosted fleet was never billed for team size in the first place.
Your PaaS Bill Lied in June 2026: What Railway, Render, Fly.io and Vercel Actually Cost With Egress, Cold Starts, and the 127x Spread
A June 2026 audit priced the same API, worker, Postgres, and 200 GB egress workload across Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel and found a 5x bill spread, 127x once hidden egress and billing lines are counted. The invoice, the hidden lines that create it, and what the same stack costs on a flat-rate Hetzner box.
Render Chose Boring on Purpose: What a $1.5B PaaS Selling Predictability Says About What Teams Actually Wanted
Render hit a $1.5B valuation and then made its product more boring — flat $25 and $499 workspace fees, bandwidth cut to 5 GB, compute tiers unchanged. Why the most predictable bill won and what the same workload costs when you own the hardware instead of renting the predictability.
Sevalla Charges $160 for 4 vCPU/8 GB on GKE: What the Same Box Costs on Render, Fly.io, Railway — and Flat-Rate Hetzner
Back4App's February 2026 guide prices Sevalla at $160/month for 4 vCPU/8 GB on GKE. The same always-on workload costs $175 on Render Pro Plus, ~$100 on Fly.io and Railway metered, and $18–$40 flat on Hetzner with 20 TB included — five invoices for one box, priced line by line.
The 5x Spread on an Identical Workload: What Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel Actually Bill
A June 2026 audit priced the same API, worker, Postgres, and 200 GB egress workload across Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel and found a 5x bill spread. The invoice, why it hides, and a model to price your own migration.
Fly.io After the Free Tier Died: What Per-Second Usage Billing With New 2026 Line Items Costs Against a Fixed Hetzner Invoice
Fly.io killed Hobby/Launch/Scale plans in October 2024 for pure per-second billing, then added new metered line items through 2026 — what that does to bill predictability for a small team versus a flat Hetzner invoice, priced workload by workload.
Fly.io at $11M ARR With Zero Open Roles: How to Read a PaaS Vendor's Vital Signs Before You Bet Your Stack
Mid-2026 snapshots peg Fly.io around $11M ARR with no open roles while Render touts a $1.5B valuation on 100%+ YoY growth — and Fly's own plan deprecations plus new 2026 billing lines look like optimizing the base, not sprinting. A five-signal checklist for auditing any PaaS before you migrate, a scored walkthrough on Fly.io, and why the hedge isn't multi-cloud but a real exit path you can test.
Vercel Repriced Four Times Since 2024: Why a Moving Formula Hurts More Than a High Price
Four Vercel repricings since 2024 reshuffled which metered line item dominates a bill, so the same workload costs different amounts quarter to quarter. A vintage-by-vintage ledger, a worked variance model, and what a fixed-price Hetzner contract does to a 12-month hosting forecast.