697 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
The Self-Hosted GPU Breakeven Point: Why ~50M Tokens/Day Is Where Owning H100s Beats Renting Inference APIs
A dedicated H100 breaks even against typical hosted LLM API pricing at roughly 50 million tokens a day of sustained use, but the real number depends entirely on which API tier you're comparing against and how well a platform can bin-pack tenant traffic to keep the GPU busy.
Short-Lived Credentials for AI Agents on Kubernetes: Designing Out the Long-Lived-Secret Failure Mode
Why plain Kubernetes Secrets are the failure mode behind 2026's AI-agent credential incidents, and the concrete Vault/CSI/MCP architecture that replaces them with short-lived, per-task tokens.
How SNCF Keeps 200+ Kubernetes Clusters in Sync With Zero Drift — and Why the Same Loop Works on Three Hetzner Boxes
SNCF, France's national railway, updates 200+ Kubernetes clusters every month with zero drift using Cluster API. Here's exactly how that reconciliation loop works — and why the same mechanism runs unmodified on three self-hosted Hetzner boxes.
Talos Linux Meets Cluster API: The Immutable-OS Alternative to Ubuntu+kubeadm
Talos Linux strips the Kubernetes node OS down to a dozen binaries, no SSH, and a single mTLS API — and it plugs into Cluster API through its own bootstrap and control-plane providers, right alongside CAPH on Hetzner.
Vercel's Active CPU Billing Saves 93% on a Real AI Agent — Here's the Exact Math
Vercel claims Active CPU pricing cuts costs up to 95% across 45 billion weekly requests. A worked example on a realistic AI-agent function gets 93% — and shows the exact invocation volume where the discounted bill catches back up to a flat-rate box you already own.
Vercel's Spending Cap Doesn't Cap Your Spending: The Bandwidth Math Behind $23K Bills
Vercel's Spend Management feature can pause a runaway bill, but it's opt-in, checks usage every few minutes instead of continuously, and shuts down all of production instead of capping the overage — here's the real per-GB, per-CPU-hour math and what a fixed-cost server costs instead.
The AI Agent Sandbox Wars: E2B vs Daytona vs Modal vs Fly Machines Compared
E2B, Daytona, Modal, and Fly Machines each bet on a different isolation architecture for running AI-generated code — a normalized cost comparison and what the isolation tradeoffs mean for a self-hosted platform.
Railpack Replaces Nixpacks: What Railway's BuildKit Rewrite Means for Git-Push Builds Everywhere
Railway replaced Nixpacks with Railpack, a BuildKit-based rewrite promising 38-77% smaller images — here's the real comparison against Cloud Native Buildpacks and what self-hosted tools like Coolify and Dokploy should do next.
Coolify vs Dokploy vs Kamal in 2026: Idle CPU, Multi-Server, and Why a Cluster-API PaaS Is a Different Bet
Coolify, Dokploy, and Kamal charge wildly different resource rent to run your self-hosted PaaS. Here's the real idle CPU/RAM cost of each architecture, and why a Cluster-API-based platform is a different bet entirely, not a fourth entry in the list.