672 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
SST Put Itself in Maintenance Mode to Build an AI Agent — 650K Devs in Five Months Shows Where Infra Builders Are Betting
SST has been in maintenance mode since 2025 while its team's terminal agent OpenCode hit 650K developers in five months. A timeline, market math, risk matrix, and migration checklist for teams still on SST.
Vercel at $200 vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Framework-Agnostic Cost Teardown
The same Next.js SSR + API workload lands between $20 and $200/month on Vercel Pro once invocations, ISR and edge middleware meter separately — versus €3.79 flat on a Hetzner box with no per-request billing. A line-by-line teardown of where the bill actually moves.
Vercel's Third Acquihire in a Year Bought an AI That Cuts a 4-Hour DevOps Task to 50 Minutes — What That Wager Reveals
In July 2026 Vercel acquired Stakpak — an Egyptian, Rust-based autonomous DevOps agent that claims to cut infrastructure work from four hours to 50 minutes — its third acquihire in 12 months. What the deal reveals about where hosted platforms are racing, and why an acquihire-built autonomous layer is a different bet than an open Render API plus MCP server any agent can already call.
Cloudflare Containers vs a €4 Hetzner Box: What a Container Next to Your Worker Actually Costs
Cloudflare Containers bills per 10ms with scale-to-zero; a Hetzner CX23 costs €3.99 flat with 20TB included. Three workloads priced line by line show when the edge container wins and when the owned box wins — and why it is a latency versus predictability tradeoff.
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.
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.
Fourteen Criteria, Ten Platforms, Three Bills: When Railway and Render Stop Being Cheap
Selko's July 2026 evaluation scored ten platforms on fourteen weighted criteria and priced the same app at $0-10, $40-60, and $200-500 — then we verified every live 2026 meter and ran the break-even math on when flat bandwidth beats per-GB billing.
Gateway API 1.5 Is GA and Ingress-NGINX Is Dead — Your Migration Inventory for a Fleet That Routes Every Tenant Domain
Gateway API 1.5 promoted six features to GA on February 27, 2026 — the same quarter ingress-nginx shipped its final release. A concrete annotation-by-annotation inventory of what ingress2gateway translates cleanly, what needs hand-authoring, and why a botched migration on a PaaS that routes hundreds of tenant domains is fleet-wide breakage.
Hetzner Doubled Your x86 Bill and Barely Touched ARM: The CAX Cost-per-vCPU Recheck
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 repricing hit CPX and CCX with 113-175% hikes while CAX rose only 30%. A line-by-line cost-per-vCPU recompute, fleet math that turns the gap into thousands per year, and which workloads move to ARM without a rebuild.