675 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
When us-east-1 Goes Dark: What One AWS Region Under Your Whole Stack Really Costs
AWS us-east-1's 15-hour DynamoDB DNS outage in October 2025 broke Ring, Reddit and United check-in at once. A worksheet prices that failure for small, mid and large teams, maps how hosted PaaS silently inherits us-east-1, and compares the bill to a three-location Hetzner fleet under Cluster API.
CAREN Meets Flux: Composable Runtime Hooks for Day-2 Cluster API Without Custom Controllers
CAREN turns Cluster API day-2 operations into composable Runtime SDK hooks — CNI, CCM, CSI, and LoadBalancer GC sequenced through blocking lifecycle callbacks. A concrete walkthrough of wiring CAREN into a CAPH ClusterClass and closing the loop with Flux GitOps.
Eleven Minutes, Zero Humans: What Kairos's Self-Healing Upgrades Teach a Bare-Metal PaaS
A CNCF Kubestronaut ran an 11-minute, zero-human Kubernetes upgrade on Kairos's A/B immutable OS — and documented every bug that almost broke it. Here is the pipeline, the two fixes that saved etcd quorum, and how to translate it to a Hetzner + Cluster API fleet.
The EU Just Legislated Who Can Sell Cloud to Its Governments: What CADA's Four Tiers Mean for Your PaaS Choice
On June 3, 2026 the EU turned its SEAL-0 to SEAL-4 sovereignty grades into procurement law. A concrete map of CADA's four assurance levels, where US hyperscalers hit a structural wall, and why a fleet on owned Hetzner/OVHcloud/Scaleway hardware clears a bar a US-headquartered PaaS cannot.
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.
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.
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.