675 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Kubernetes 1.36 Can Scale to Zero — But Not Like Render Does: What a Self-Hosted PaaS Still Has to Wire
Kubernetes 1.36 keeps HPA scale-to-zero in alpha, disabled by default and limited to External/Object metrics. A concrete walkthrough of what a Cluster API fleet still needs — KEDA HTTP add-on or Knative activator, external metrics, and probe math — to give tenants real scale-to-zero without renting Render's cold-start model.
Netcup's €8.74 Box vs Hetzner's €42.99 CCX: What a Second EU Provider Actually Costs Your Fleet
After Hetzner's third 2026 hike tripled dedicated CCX pricing, Netcup's RS 1000 G12 offers 4 dedicated EPYC cores for €8.74 — but no CAPH provider, fewer regions, and no declarative machine lifecycle. A fleet-scale recompute with honest gaps.
100 Platforms, One Catch: What Free Hosting Actually Gives You in 2026
A 150-platform free-tier census went viral in 2026. Here's what Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, AWS and a raw VPS actually give you for free — what breaks at month 13 — and what the same hobby stack costs on a €4.49 Hetzner box that never had a free tier to expire.
Your Rented Control Plane Costs More Than Your Servers: What Qovery's $299–$2,099 Agentic Platform Fee Actually Buys
Qovery's $299–$2,099/month control-plane fee sits on top of your cloud bill — not instead of it. A line-by-line accounting of what the agentic platform buys, why agents don't consume seats but do consume deployment minutes, and when owning the fleet costs less than renting the plane that manages it.
Railway Prices Compute in Scientific Notation: What $0.000463 per vCPU-Second Actually Costs a Month
Railway's $0.000463/vCPU-minute is $20 per vCPU per month — but only if you catch the unit. A worked table converts Railway's per-second and per-minute rates to monthly costs for four real workloads, shows why legibility is its own billing risk, and prices the same stack on a flat Hetzner box.
Render's $1.5B Valuation and a 20× Bandwidth Cut in the Same Quarter: Who $0.15/GB Egress Is Actually Priced For
Render raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation in the same quarter it cut Hobby bandwidth 20× — from 100GB to 5GB at $0.15/GB overage. A worked table prices 5GB to 5TB on Render Hobby/Pro/Scale against a Hetzner CX22's flat 20TB to show who the new meter is actually priced for.
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.
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.