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NocoDB's Enterprise Gate Is the Third Warning: How to Vet a Self-Hosted Platform's License Before It Vets You
·Dora Noda·12 min

NocoDB's Enterprise Gate Is the Third Warning: How to Vet a Self-Hosted Platform's License Before It Vets You

NocoDB gated Calendar Sync and Image Annotations behind Enterprise in July 2026 — after Plex paywalled remote streaming and MinIO stripped its admin console. Three moves, one pattern, and a five-question checklist to tell Apache-2.0 from open-core before you build on it.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
security
Plex Paywalled Your Own Movies: Three Self-Hosting Rug-Pulls and the Apache 2.0 Test That Catches the Next One
·Dora Noda·12 min

Plex Paywalled Your Own Movies: Three Self-Hosting Rug-Pulls and the Apache 2.0 Test That Catches the Next One

Plex paywalled remote streaming, MinIO stripped its admin console, and NocoDB gated new features behind Enterprise — three self-hosted tools that moved free features behind a paywall in 18 months, and the license checklist that separates Apache 2.0 from open-core risk.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
security
AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Why a Separate German Region Still Can't Close the CLOUD Act Gap
·Dora Noda·13 min

AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Why a Separate German Region Still Can't Close the CLOUD Act Gap

AWS went GA in Brandenburg on January 15, 2026 with a separate German entity, 90 services, and €7.8B behind it. Why physically separate still isn't legally sovereign — scored through the EU's SEAL 0–4 framework and the CLOUD Act's corporate-jurisdiction test.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
security
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Coolify v4.0.0 Goes Stable: What a Two-Year Beta Promoted to Stable Actually Guarantees — and What It Doesn't
·Dora Noda·13 min

Coolify v4.0.0 Goes Stable: What a Two-Year Beta Promoted to Stable Actually Guarantees — and What It Doesn't

Coolify shipped v4.0.0 stable on April 27, 2026 after 468 beta tags, 57,000 stars, and production use by thousands — plus 11 disclosed CVEs. What the stable tag actually guarantees for upgrade and security, what single-host Docker architecture it leaves unchanged, and how to decide whether to pin it today.

PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
engineering
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Dokploy Switched to Plain Apache 2.0 on January 21, 2026 — Why a Late Cleanup Is Harder to Trust Than Starting Clean
·Dora Noda·15 min

Dokploy Switched to Plain Apache 2.0 on January 21, 2026 — Why a Late Cleanup Is Harder to Trust Than Starting Clean

Dokploy replaced its custom Apache 2.0 plus commercial appendix with clean Apache 2.0 core on January 21, 2026. A before-and-after of what changed, what still sits under DSAL, and why a retroactive fix is weaker trust than starting clean.

PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
engineering
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OVHcloud's SecNumCloud GA in June 2026: Why 'EU-Headquartered' Isn't a Sovereignty Certification
·Dora Noda·17 min

OVHcloud's SecNumCloud GA in June 2026: Why 'EU-Headquartered' Isn't a Sovereignty Certification

OVHcloud's SecNumCloud-qualified instances went GA in June 2026 on ANSSI's 360-control visa. What certified immunity, operational separation, and capital caps require beyond an EU headquarters — and when your PaaS needs to name the visa.

infrastructure
security
compliance
regulation
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Railway's Access Groups Are Group RBAC Behind a SaaS UI: Here's the Same Boundary as Kubernetes YAML
·Dora Noda·10 min

Railway's Access Groups Are Group RBAC Behind a SaaS UI: Here's the Same Boundary as Kubernetes YAML

Railway shipped Access Groups on August 14, 2026 — group-based RBAC for its hosted PaaS. A concrete mapping of the same boundary as Kubernetes RBAC, RoleBindings, and Gateway API policy on a control plane you own.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
infrastructure
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KEDA v2.20's One-Line RBAC Change Silenced Your Autoscaler's Events for 60 Days
·Dora Noda·12 min

KEDA v2.20's One-Line RBAC Change Silenced Your Autoscaler's Events for 60 Days

KEDA v2.20 swapped the operator's events RBAC from the core API group to events.k8s.io and dropped the old one — so every KEDA event was forbidden on the default install for 60 days. The exact rule to grant, who actually has to act, and the pre-upgrade checklist for a fleet whose scale-from-zero runs through one controller.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
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Bring Your Own Hetzner Account: Edka, Cluster API, and the Token With Only Two Permission Levels
·Dora Noda·11 min

Bring Your Own Hetzner Account: Edka, Cluster API, and the Token With Only Two Permission Levels

A 3-node Hetzner cluster priced three ways — closed PaaS, a BYO-account control plane, and DIY Cluster API — plus the uncomfortable detail underneath all of it: a Hetzner API token has exactly two permission levels and one scope.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
PaaS
security
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