672 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Vercel Repriced Four Times in 20 Months — Here's What Each One Did to Your Bill
Vercel repriced four times in 20 months — unbundled bandwidth, Active CPU, credit billing, and Turbo builds — while Render cut egress 100GB to 5GB and Fly.io added new meters. A timeline plus a line-by-line recompute of the same Next.js app under each regime, and why a flat Hetzner invoice is the only one that didn't need a changelog.
Vercel Repriced Four Times in 20 Months: What Your Next.js Bill Actually Costs Now
Vercel changed pricing four times in 20 months, Render cut included bandwidth 100GB to 5GB, and Fly.io added two new billing lines. A timeline and line-by-line cost for the same Next.js app on each platform versus a flat Hetzner box.
vLLM vs Ollama in Production: What PagedAttention's 19x Throughput Gap Really Buys on Owned GPUs
Red Hat's 2026 benchmark put vLLM at 793 tokens per second and Ollama at 41 on the same GPU and model — a 19x gap. The same comparison at one concurrent user shows them within 20%. A concrete breakdown of where PagedAttention earns that gap, where it doesn't, and what each engine costs to run on an owned Hetzner GPU fleet.
Who Backs Up the Management Cluster? Rebuilding the CAPI Brain When It Dies
Your workload clusters keep serving traffic when the management cluster dies — but nothing can scale, heal, or upgrade until you rebuild the brain. A line-by-line walkthrough of three recovery paths with concrete commands, the stale-state trap, and a quarterly drill to prove it works.
Your PaaS Bill Lied to You: The Real Cost of Railway, Render, Fly.io and Vercel in 2026
Tural Allahverdiyev's June 2026 teardown put Railway, Render, Fly.io, Vercel and Cloudflare Workers on one page after four Vercel repricings and Heroku's sustaining mode — then priced the same app on a flat Hetzner box. A line-by-line recompute with egress math and the bandwidth number that actually drives the bill.
Coolify Cloud's $5 for 2 Servers vs a Hetzner CX22 at €4.35: What the $5 Actually Rents
Coolify Cloud is $5/month for 2 servers, then $3 per extra — on top of the Hetzner CX22 it runs on. A line-by-line teardown of what the $5 rents, what €4.35 bought before 2026's hikes, and where per-server rent breaks a growing fleet.
Coolify Cloud at $5 for 2 Servers vs a Raw Hetzner CX22 at €4.35: What That Subscription Actually Buys
Coolify Cloud charges $5 for two servers plus $3 per extra — on top of the Hetzner CX22 it manages at €4.35 with 20TB included. A line-by-line teardown of the real totals at 1, 2, 5, and 10 servers and where the fleet still stays manual.
Waking Idle Apps at the Proxy Layer: Sablier vs KEDA vs Knative for the 30-App Fleet
Sablier wakes idle containers at the reverse-proxy layer — Traefik, Caddy, Nginx — with no operator or sidecar. How its blocking and waiting-page strategies compare to KEDA and Knative for a fleet of dozens of low-traffic apps, what idle-hour math actually saves, and where HTTP-only wake hits its ceiling.
When Hetzner Says No: What Happens When Your Bare-Metal Provider Runs Out of Machines, Not Money
On June 26, 2026 Hetzner started refusing new cloud servers for a subset of customers — not a price hike, a stock-out. What that hard capacity ceiling breaks in a Cluster API fleet, and the concrete multi-location, multi-type playbook to keep your PaaS scaling when one location says no.