Dora Noda
Software Engineer
Dora Noda is a Software Engineer writing about Web3 infrastructure, blockchain networks, and self-hosting.
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Elestio's 400+ App Catalog Passes Coolify's: Why Catalog Size Is the Wrong Way to Rank a Self-Hosted PaaS
Elestio now leads the self-hosted PaaS category with 400+ one-click apps, ahead of CapRover, Coolify, PikaPods, and Cloudron. The numbers are real — but they measure a different product than a git-push PaaS builds. Here's the actual table, what catalog size hides, and what a Cluster-API platform should borrow instead of chasing the count.
Fly.io's July 3 ORD Outage: Two Upstream Failures, 18 Hours Apart, and the Fault Domain You Don't Get to Choose
Fly.io's July 3, 2026 status history reads like one 18-hour ORD outage, but it was two separate upstream failures hours apart. Here's the verbatim timeline and what a rented-rack fault domain actually costs you versus owning the fleet.
Fly.io's GPU Exit and Zero Open Job Reqs: Reading a Platform's Own Hiring Page as a Migration-Urgency Signal
Fly.io's GPUs disappear August 1, 2026, and its careers page lists zero open roles. Here's a five-signal checklist for reading a vendor's own public record as an early-warning system, run against Fly.io's actual 2024-2026 track record.
GitHub Actions Cache Gets a Meter: What It Actually Costs Now
GitHub's Actions cache overage is $0.07/GB/month, not the $0.25 figure most pricing roundups repeat — and that's not even the expensive part. Here's what the January 2026 upload rate limit actually costs a busy CI pipeline, and what a self-hosted build cache skips entirely.
Grafana 13's Loki Rewrite Cuts Log Storage Overhead From 2.3x to 1x — the Catch Is a New Kafka Dependency
Grafana 13's Loki rewrite drops effective log-replication overhead from 2.3x to roughly 1x and adds a one-command OpenTelemetry install — but distributed deployments now need a Kafka cluster, and the real trade-off is worth the arithmetic.
Hetzner's US Regions Aren't a 2026 Launch — They're the Latency Objection Render and Railway Migrators Never Checked
Hetzner's Ashburn and Hillsboro regions have run production traffic since 2021 and 2022, not since 2026 — the real news is the latency and egress-cost math Render, Railway, and Fly.io migrators still haven't checked.
Hetzner Placement Groups and Cluster API: What Guarantees Your Control-Plane Anti-Affinity, and Why Autoscaled Workers Still Don't Get It
Hetzner's Placement Groups guarantee up to 10 VMs land on 10 different physical hosts — a free API primitive live since 2021. CAPH already wires it into control-plane provisioning. The Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler's Hetzner provider still can't, three years into an open feature request.
Hetzner Wants 50 Hectares in Bavaria to Build Its Own Power Plant: What Vertically Integrated Solar Would Mean for Your Hosting Bill
Hetzner is evaluating 50 hectares in Bavaria for a solar-powered datacenter, the second step after its HT Clean Energy solar venture — what's actually built versus still a land inquiry, and why grid-connection queues and volatile industrial power pricing, not marketing, are driving it.
Highlight.io's Shutdown Is a Governance Checklist Your Observability Stack Needs
Highlight.io shut down as a standalone open-source tool on February 28, 2026 after LaunchDarkly acquired it. A five-question governance checklist backtested against Highlight itself, then scored against GlitchTip and SigNoz.