678 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Hetzner at €3.79 vs OVHcloud at $9.99 vs DigitalOcean at $24: What a 6x Price Gap Still Buys After Three 2026 Price Hikes
February's viral table priced the same 2 vCPU/4 GB box at €3.79 on Hetzner, $9.99 on OVHcloud and $24 on DigitalOcean. After Hetzner's April and June hikes and OVHcloud's 9-11% increase, the gap did not close — bandwidth math made it wider.
Kubernetes 1.36 'Haru': Three GA Graduations Your Small Fleet Actually Needs
Kubernetes 1.36 ships 70 enhancements with 18 graduating to Stable. Only three change day-to-day ops for a modest Hetzner-backed fleet: User Namespaces, MutatingAdmissionPolicy, and Volume Group Snapshots — with YAML, constraints, and the 15 you can safely defer.
Northflank's No-Seat-Fee BYOC Still Has Two Bills: What a Rented Control Plane Costs Against One Hetzner Invoice
Northflank charges no seat fee — just $0.01667/vCPU-hour and $0.00833/GB-hour — but BYOC still means two bills: your cloud provider plus a flat platform fee per vCPU. A line-by-line teardown at three workload sizes against a single Hetzner CX/CPX invoice, with seat-count and utilization sensitivity.
OpenCost 1.121 Finally Answers: What Does Each Token Cost on Your Own GPUs?
OpenCost 1.121 adds Kubernetes-native per-token inference metering via llm-d — allocation vs. usage cost, KV-cache-corrected — turning self-hosted LLM spend from a quarterly guess into a Prometheus metric you can alert on.
Sovereign Means More Than Where the Disks Sit: What OVHcloud and Scality's Joint Storage SKU Reveals About European Digital Sovereignty
OVHcloud and Scality shipped a joint S3-compatible sovereign storage platform on July 1, 2026 — with dedicated cloud and on-prem options, multi-AZ replication, and no hyperscaler dependency. A teardown of what sovereignty actually requires beyond data residency, mapped against the EU's SEAL grading and CADA procurement tiers.
Proxmox VE Evaluations Up 340%: What the VMware Exodus Means for Your Next Cluster API Provider
Gartner reports Proxmox VE evaluations up 340% as Broadcom's VMware bills rise 800-1500%. What Proxmox 9.1's OCI-to-LXC feature actually does, how CAPMOX compares to CAPH, and when a second Cluster API provider earns its place in a self-hosted fleet.
Railway's $5 Hobby Plan Is a $5 Credit, Not a $5 Flat Fee: Where It Beats — and Loses to — a €4 Hetzner Box
Railway's $5 Hobby fee is $5 of usage credit at $10/GB RAM and $20/vCPU per month. A line-by-line teardown at three workload sizes shows where the meter overtakes a flat €3.79 Hetzner CX22 — and the exact GB where renting costs more than owning.
Render's $1.5B Valuation Hides a $0.15/GB Question: What 100% Growth Doesn't Tell You About Your Next Bill
Render hit a $1.5B valuation on 100%+ growth the same quarter it cut included bandwidth to 5GB Hobby and 25GB Pro at $0.15/GB. A line-by-line sweep from 25GB to 2TB shows what that actually costs versus a flat Hetzner box — and why valuation is the wrong signal for your next bill.
Snap Cut Caching Costs 60% With Valkey: What the Number Really Means When You Self-Host It
Snap cut its caching bill from $2.1M to $840K migrating 70% of Redis clusters to Valkey on ElastiCache. A line-by-line teardown of the three stacked discounts behind that 60% drop and what the same workload costs self-hosted on owned Hetzner hardware.