August 2026
253 posts · 2026 archive
- Northflank's No-Seat-Fee BYOC Still Has Two Bills: What a Rented Control Plane Costs Against One Hetzner Invoice
- OpenCost 1.121 Finally Answers: What Does Each Token Cost on Your Own GPUs?
- Sovereign Means More Than Where the Disks Sit: What OVHcloud and Scality's Joint Storage SKU Reveals About European Digital Sovereignty
- Proxmox VE Evaluations Up 340%: What the VMware Exodus Means for Your Next Cluster API Provider
- Railway's $5 Hobby Plan Is a $5 Credit, Not a $5 Flat Fee: Where It Beats — and Loses to — a €4 Hetzner Box
- Render's $1.5B Valuation Hides a $0.15/GB Question: What 100% Growth Doesn't Tell You About Your Next Bill
- Snap Cut Caching Costs 60% With Valkey: What the Number Really Means When You Self-Host It
- The Idle-Compute Tax: What Vercel's Active CPU and Netlify's Durable Functions Reveal About Serverless AI Bills
- Vercel Repriced Four Times in 20 Months — Here's What Each One Did to Your Bill
- Vercel Repriced Four Times in 20 Months: What Your Next.js Bill Actually Costs Now
- vLLM vs Ollama in Production: What PagedAttention's 19x Throughput Gap Really Buys on Owned GPUs
- Who Backs Up the Management Cluster? Rebuilding the CAPI Brain When It Dies
- Your PaaS Bill Lied to You: The Real Cost of Railway, Render, Fly.io and Vercel in 2026
- Coolify Cloud at $5 for 2 Servers vs a Raw Hetzner CX22 at €4.35: What That Subscription Actually Buys
- Coolify Cloud's $5 for 2 Servers vs a Hetzner CX22 at €4.35: What the $5 Actually Rents
- Waking Idle Apps at the Proxy Layer: Sablier vs KEDA vs Knative for the 30-App Fleet
- When Hetzner Says No: What Happens When Your Bare-Metal Provider Runs Out of Machines, Not Money
- Railway's $5 Looks Flat Until the Meter Starts: Where It Beats — and Loses to — a €10 Hetzner Box
- Docker Hub Raised Prices 80 Percent, Then Cancelled Rate Limits — Why Your CI Still Needs a Mirror
- Hetzner Raised Prices Three Times in 2026 — The RAM Shortage Behind Your Next Bill
- The Egress Tax: Why the Same 500 GB Costs $0 or $60 Depending on the Logo on Your Invoice
- AWS Still Charges $0.09/GB — But Your Egress Bill Tripled Anyway
- AWS Fixed the Network in 20 Minutes. Your App Stayed Down for 10 Hours.
- Every Step Now Has a Price Tag: What Cloudflare Workflows' Per-Step Billing Means for Your Orchestration Budget
- Fly.io Halved L40S to $1.25/hr — Then Scheduled GPUs for Deletion on August 1
- Fly.io Sprites at $0.07 Per CPU-Hour: Why Zero When Idle Still Cost $35,000 for 200 Sandboxes
- Heroku Is in Sustaining Mode: What Staying Costs vs a €4.35 Hetzner Box
- Hetzner Just Tripled Its Best VMs: What the 2.7x Price Shock Does to Self-Hosting Math
- Hetzner's New -Ltd Tier: What Lower-Cost Hardware Really Trades Away
- Kubero's PaaS on Kubernetes: What a Dashboard Over kubectl Actually Solves — and What You Still Operate Yourself
- NocoDB's Enterprise Gate Is the Third Warning: How to Vet a Self-Hosted Platform's License Before It Vets You
- Plex Paywalled Your Own Movies: Three Self-Hosting Rug-Pulls and the Apache 2.0 Test That Catches the Next One
- R2 at $0, B2 at $0.01, S3 at $0.09: What Egress Really Costs Your Object Store
- Railway's $5 vs Fly.io's $2: What the Cheapest Always-On Service Really Costs
- Railway's $5 Hobby vs. a €10 Hetzner Box: What a Solo Dev Actually Pays for an API and a Worker
- Railway vs Render vs Fly.io on July 19, 2026: Same Stack, Three Bills, and Where the Meter Moves First
- AWS European Sovereign Cloud: Why a Separate German Region Still Can't Close the CLOUD Act Gap
- Backblaze B2 Overdrive Promises Unlimited Free Egress: What It Actually Costs vs MinIO and Garage on Your Own Disks
- Your Build Queue Is Idle 80% of the Day: Sizing a Git-Push Pool Without Paying for Peak
- Coolify Said No to VCs and Still Won: What a $5 Self-Hosted PaaS Teaches About the Repricing Treadmill
- Coolify v4.0.0 Goes Stable: What a Two-Year Beta Promoted to Stable Actually Guarantees — and What It Doesn't
- Dokploy Switched to Plain Apache 2.0 on January 21, 2026 — Why a Late Cleanup Is Harder to Trust Than Starting Clean
- The 2026 DRAM Supercycle Is Permanent: What 'Not Cyclical' Means for Every Self-Hosted Hardware Bet
- Fly.io Added Two Billing Lines in 2026: What Metering Creep Costs Against a Flat Hetzner Box
- Fly.io Is Killing GPUs on August 1: What Two Retreats in Three Years Say About Renting vs Owning Your Accelerators
- Fly.io Killed Its Subscription Tiers in 2024 and Kept Adding Billing Lines Through 2026: What Pure Usage-Based Pricing Actually Costs an Always-On App at Scale
- Hetzner's 2026 Price Shocks: What Two Repricings Did to the 'Owning Hardware Is Cheaper' Pitch
- Hetzner Raised Prices Twice in 10 Weeks: What Your Self-Hosted Fleet Really Costs Now
- Two Incidents in Four Days: What Hetzner's Provisioning Delay Actually Costs When You Don't Multi-Cloud
- Hetzner's €889 RTX PRO 6000: What Self-Hosted AI Inference Actually Costs When You Already Own the Fleet
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