672 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Fly.io's Two New 2026 Bills: What Private Networking and Snapshot Metering Actually Add Next to a Flat Hetzner Box
Fly.io started billing volume snapshots in January 2026 and MPG inter-region private networking in February 2026. A worked, line-by-line recompute shows the hobby app stays at $0 delta while a multi-region production stack adds $0.90–$9.20 a month, versus the same containers for €3.79 flat on Hetzner.
Gateway API v1.6 Graduates TCPRoute to Standard: Exposing Postgres, MQTT, and Game Servers Without NodePort Hacks
Gateway API v1.6 moves TCPRoute and UDPRoute to v1 on the Standard channel. A concrete guide to replacing NodePort and per-service LoadBalancers with one Gateway, a support matrix for Envoy Gateway, Cilium, Traefik and NGINX Gateway Fabric, and the port and TLS semantics that still bite.
Hetzner's $40 → $103 Hike Broke US Math: Hetzner US vs OVHcloud vs Domestic VPS, Line by Line
Hetzner's CCX23 jumped from $39.99 to $102.99 on June 15 (+157.5%). For a US team the headline is only half the bill — US regions include 1 TB, not 20 TB. A 5 TB workload costs $107 on Hetzner US, $37 on OVHcloud unlimited, and $116 on a domestic VPS.
Hetzner's April Price Hike, Three Months Later: Why a 37% Raise Still Leaves Your 3-Node Fleet Cheaper Than Render and Railway
Hetzner raised cloud prices up to 37% on April 1, 2026, but a 3-node CX22 fleet still costs ~$14/month with 60 TB included — versus $21–$85 on Render and $25–$240 on Railway. Line-by-line bills and an egress sensitivity table show where the margin narrowed and where it still clears.
Sold Out, Not Priced Out: What Hetzner's "Limited Availability" Means When Your Autoscaler Can't Buy a Server
Hetzner's status page now shows 'Limited availability of Cloud plans' — not a price hike, a sold-out wall. See what that looks like on a CAPH MachineDeployment, the two-pool fallback YAML that survives it, and why a visible queue beats a hosted PaaS's invisible one.
410 Gone on October 1: The Pre-Deadline Hetzner Datacenter Audit for Cluster API Fleets
Hetzner's GET /v1/datacenters returns 410 Gone on October 1, 2026 — the last of four stacked removals that already broke datacenter on Servers and Primary IPs July 1. A concrete 15-minute audit and CI guard for every Cluster API, Terraform, and Ansible manifest that still names a datacenter.
Hetzner's June 15 Hike Hit CCX 175%: Recomputing What Your Bex Fleet Really Costs
Hetzner split its cloud catalog on June 15 — CX and CAX rose ~33% while CCX and CPX more than doubled. A three-node Bex fleet now spans €16 to €129 a month depending only on which family your MachineDeployment asks for.
k0rdent 1.0 vs Plain Cluster API: What a Super Control Plane Actually Buys Your Fleet
k0rdent 1.0 pairs Cluster API with a template-driven super control plane for fleet-wide provisioning and FinOps. Here's what its KCM/KOF stack buys over plain CAPH plus Flux — and where the leaner setup still wins.
K8gb Hits CNCF Incubating: DNS GSLB for Self-Hosted Clusters Without Route 53
k8gb moved to CNCF Incubating on July 18, 2026 — the first vendor-neutral DNS GSLB to clear the bar. One Gslb CR, two Hetzner regions, and 30-second DNS failover with no Route 53 or Cloudflare LB.