672 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Hetzner's Second Price Hike of 2026: Why Your CCX Fleet Just Got 169% More Expensive
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 hike tripled CCX and CPX while CX and CAX rose 35%. A line-by-line recompute of what a CAPH fleet costs on the wrong family versus the right one — and how to fix your MachineDeployment default.
Hetzner at €3.79 vs OVHcloud at $9.99 vs DigitalOcean at $24: What a 6x Price Gap Still Buys After Three 2026 Price Hikes
February's viral table priced the same 2 vCPU/4 GB box at €3.79 on Hetzner, $9.99 on OVHcloud and $24 on DigitalOcean. After Hetzner's April and June hikes and OVHcloud's 9-11% increase, the gap did not close — bandwidth math made it wider.
Kubernetes 1.36 'Haru': Three GA Graduations Your Small Fleet Actually Needs
Kubernetes 1.36 ships 70 enhancements with 18 graduating to Stable. Only three change day-to-day ops for a modest Hetzner-backed fleet: User Namespaces, MutatingAdmissionPolicy, and Volume Group Snapshots — with YAML, constraints, and the 15 you can safely defer.
Northflank's No-Seat-Fee BYOC Still Has Two Bills: What a Rented Control Plane Costs Against One Hetzner Invoice
Northflank charges no seat fee — just $0.01667/vCPU-hour and $0.00833/GB-hour — but BYOC still means two bills: your cloud provider plus a flat platform fee per vCPU. A line-by-line teardown at three workload sizes against a single Hetzner CX/CPX invoice, with seat-count and utilization sensitivity.
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.
Railway's $5 Hobby Plan Is a $5 Credit, Not a $5 Flat Fee: Where It Beats — and Loses to — a €4 Hetzner Box
Railway's $5 Hobby fee is $5 of usage credit at $10/GB RAM and $20/vCPU per month. A line-by-line teardown at three workload sizes shows where the meter overtakes a flat €3.79 Hetzner CX22 — and the exact GB where renting costs more than owning.
Render's $1.5B Valuation Hides a $0.15/GB Question: What 100% Growth Doesn't Tell You About Your Next Bill
Render hit a $1.5B valuation on 100%+ growth the same quarter it cut included bandwidth to 5GB Hobby and 25GB Pro at $0.15/GB. A line-by-line sweep from 25GB to 2TB shows what that actually costs versus a flat Hetzner box — and why valuation is the wrong signal for your next bill.
Snap Cut Caching Costs 60% With Valkey: What the Number Really Means When You Self-Host It
Snap cut its caching bill from $2.1M to $840K migrating 70% of Redis clusters to Valkey on ElastiCache. A line-by-line teardown of the three stacked discounts behind that 60% drop and what the same workload costs self-hosted on owned Hetzner hardware.
The Idle-Compute Tax: What Vercel's Active CPU and Netlify's Durable Functions Reveal About Serverless AI Bills
Vercel's Active CPU pricing and Netlify's Durable Functions both fix serverless billing for AI workloads that idle 90% of wall-clock time — a worked cost recompute shows the idle tax, the fix, and what the same workload costs on a flat Hetzner box that never metered the wait.