68 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
We Took the $828/Year Heroku-to-Render Rails Migration One Hop Further: What Self-Hosted on Hetzner Actually Costs
A developer saved $828/year moving a Rails app from Heroku to Render. We took the same web/worker/Postgres/Redis topology one hop further onto owned Hetzner hardware — real numbers, including the June 2026 Hetzner price hike that complicates the math.
Vercel's Three Outages in Eight Days: What a Build Pipeline, a CDN, and a Workflow Engine Failing Separately Actually Means
Vercel logged three unrelated incidents in eight days in July 2026 — stuck workflow runs, a regional CDN/Dashboard/Functions outage, and a build queue backup — hitting three different subsystems independently. Here's the timeline, the numbers behind it, and what actually changes when you own the layers underneath.
Hetzner's June 2026 Price Hike Doubled Some Instances — Here's the Recomputed Break-Even Against Render and Railway
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 adjustment raised CPX and CCX instances by up to 209% while CX and CAX barely moved. A line-by-line recompute of a web+worker+Postgres topology on post-hike Hetzner versus Render and Railway — and why picking the wrong instance family now costs as much as picking the wrong vendor.
Render's April 2026 Egress Cut From 100GB to 5GB on Hobby: Recalculating a Bandwidth-Heavy App's Bill Before the August 1 Deadline
Render cut included egress from 100GB to 5GB on Hobby and 1TB to 25GB on Pro, then started billing overage at $0.15/GB. Here's the real before/after math for a bandwidth-heavy app before the August 1 auto-migration.
Render Kills Per-Seat Pricing: The Exact Team Size Where Flat Fees Flip Against You
Render dropped per-seat workspace billing for a flat fee on April 23, 2026 — but Pro and Scale flip in opposite directions, and the Scale breakeven doesn't land until 18 seats. Here's the exact math, who pays more, and what never enters the bill on an owned fleet.
AWS Closed App Runner to New Customers on April 30 — and Proved the PaaS Layer Is the First Thing Even a Hyperscaler Cuts
AWS closed App Runner to new signups on April 30, 2026 — not because the underlying compute was unprofitable, but because the git-push convenience layer on top of it wasn't worth maintaining, even for the company that owns every piece underneath it.
The Hidden PaaS Tax Nobody Puts in the Pricing Table
Render and Vercel both charge $100/month for a static outbound IP, on completely unrelated billing models — a line-by-line invoice reconstruction of what a real indie-SaaS topology costs on Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Vercel versus a single owned Hetzner box.
Netlify Killed the Seat Tax, Vercel Kept the Credits: Recomputing the 2026 Self-Hosting Breakeven
Netlify's April 2026 update killed per-seat billing and repriced bandwidth in the same changelog entry, quietly breaking the '800GB on a 5-seat team' rule of thumb that's still all over comparison sites. Here's the recomputed breakeven — and where a single self-hosted Hetzner box lands on the same table.
Railway Killed Its Free Tier for a One-Time $5 Credit: What a Real Hobby App Costs on Railway vs a Hetzner Box
Railway's free tier died in 2023 and never came back. Here's the line-by-line recompute of what a real web+worker+Postgres hobby app costs on Railway's metered Hobby plan versus a flat €5.49/month Hetzner box.