678 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
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.
Vercel's Third Acquihire in a Year Bought an AI That Cuts a 4-Hour DevOps Task to 50 Minutes — What That Wager Reveals
In July 2026 Vercel acquired Stakpak — an Egyptian, Rust-based autonomous DevOps agent that claims to cut infrastructure work from four hours to 50 minutes — its third acquihire in 12 months. What the deal reveals about where hosted platforms are racing, and why an acquihire-built autonomous layer is a different bet than an open Render API plus MCP server any agent can already call.
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.
Fly.io's $2.02 Machine Isn't Your Bill: The Five Metered Lines That Double It
Fly.io's $2.02 Machine is the headline, not the invoice. A line-by-line reconstruction of what volumes, egress, egress IPs, snapshots, and private networking add to a real app — and what the same stack costs flat on Hetzner.
The Four PaaS Pricing Pages You Must Re-Audit in Q3 2026: Railway, Render, Fly, and Vercel After Active CPU
Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel all moved their meters in 2026. A same-workload, line-by-line bill recompute across all four — plus the flat Hetzner baseline — shows where costs really diverge.
Fourteen Criteria, Ten Platforms, Three Bills: When Railway and Render Stop Being Cheap
Selko's July 2026 evaluation scored ten platforms on fourteen weighted criteria and priced the same app at $0-10, $40-60, and $200-500 — then we verified every live 2026 meter and ran the break-even math on when flat bandwidth beats per-GB billing.
Gateway API 1.5 Is GA and Ingress-NGINX Is Dead — Your Migration Inventory for a Fleet That Routes Every Tenant Domain
Gateway API 1.5 promoted six features to GA on February 27, 2026 — the same quarter ingress-nginx shipped its final release. A concrete annotation-by-annotation inventory of what ingress2gateway translates cleanly, what needs hand-authoring, and why a botched migration on a PaaS that routes hundreds of tenant domains is fleet-wide breakage.
Hetzner Doubled Your x86 Bill and Barely Touched ARM: The CAX Cost-per-vCPU Recheck
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 repricing hit CPX and CCX with 113-175% hikes while CAX rose only 30%. A line-by-line cost-per-vCPU recompute, fleet math that turns the gap into thousands per year, and which workloads move to ARM without a rebuild.
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.