681 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Coolify Cloud's $5 for 2 Servers vs a Hetzner CX22 at €4.35: What the $5 Actually Rents
Coolify Cloud is $5/month for 2 servers, then $3 per extra — on top of the Hetzner CX22 it runs on. A line-by-line teardown of what the $5 rents, what €4.35 bought before 2026's hikes, and where per-server rent breaks a growing fleet.
Coolify Cloud at $5 for 2 Servers vs a Raw Hetzner CX22 at €4.35: What That Subscription Actually Buys
Coolify Cloud charges $5 for two servers plus $3 per extra — on top of the Hetzner CX22 it manages at €4.35 with 20TB included. A line-by-line teardown of the real totals at 1, 2, 5, and 10 servers and where the fleet still stays manual.
Waking Idle Apps at the Proxy Layer: Sablier vs KEDA vs Knative for the 30-App Fleet
Sablier wakes idle containers at the reverse-proxy layer — Traefik, Caddy, Nginx — with no operator or sidecar. How its blocking and waiting-page strategies compare to KEDA and Knative for a fleet of dozens of low-traffic apps, what idle-hour math actually saves, and where HTTP-only wake hits its ceiling.
When Hetzner Says No: What Happens When Your Bare-Metal Provider Runs Out of Machines, Not Money
On June 26, 2026 Hetzner started refusing new cloud servers for a subset of customers — not a price hike, a stock-out. What that hard capacity ceiling breaks in a Cluster API fleet, and the concrete multi-location, multi-type playbook to keep your PaaS scaling when one location says no.
Railway's $5 Looks Flat Until the Meter Starts: Where It Beats — and Loses to — a €10 Hetzner Box
Railway's $5 Hobby and $20 Pro are credits, not caps — overage bills $10/GB RAM and $20/vCPU per month. A three-tier teardown shows the exact GB-hour where Railway stops being cheaper than a flat €10 Hetzner CX22 and why bursty workloads rewrite the math.
Docker Hub Raised Prices 80 Percent, Then Cancelled Rate Limits — Why Your CI Still Needs a Mirror
Docker Hub raised Pro 80 percent and Team 67 percent, then cancelled planned pull charges — but 100 pulls per 6 hours still blocks burst CI. A line-by-line cost and failure-mode comparison of paying Docker, riding free-tier limits, or running Harbor as a pull-through cache on hardware you already own.
Hetzner Raised Prices Three Times in 2026 — The RAM Shortage Behind Your Next Bill
Hetzner repriced cloud servers three times in 2026 — 30% in April, then 113–175% on dedicated vCPU in June — driven by a DRAM shortage as HBM for AI accelerators crowds out DDR5. Here is the timeline, the wafer math behind it, and what it does to a Cluster API fleet's real bill.
The Egress Tax: Why the Same 500 GB Costs $0 or $60 Depending on the Logo on Your Invoice
A 500 GB/month image-heavy workload costs $0 on Cloudflare R2, $8 on Fly.io North America, $36 on AWS S3, and $56 on Fly Africa — same bytes, 127x spread. A line-by-line recompute across seven providers, sensitivity at 50 GB to 20 TB, and why zero egress still leaves a self-hosted S3 as the honest hedge.
AWS Fixed the Network in 20 Minutes. Your App Stayed Down for 10 Hours.
AWS restored routing in 20 minutes on July 24, 2026, but downstream providers stayed down for 10 more hours. Why a provider's green checkmark understates tenant recovery, the three mechanisms that stretch a blip into a workday, and how a single-tenant fleet on owned Hetzner hardware recovers differently.