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Someone Already Wrote the Hetzner MCP Server: What a Live Changelog Audit Teaches Deploy-From-Chat
A community MCP server mapping the Hetzner Cloud, Storage Box, and Robot APIs survived six provider changelog deltas in three months with zero broken tools — thanks to a published endpoint audit, pass-through writes, and an eval that expects deprecation. Here is what that discipline teaches any deploy-from-chat roadmap, and the tenant-scoping and audit-logging layer a PaaS still has to build itself.
Hetzner Changed Two Numbers Your Fleet Depends On: LB Idle Timeout and Assigned-IP Deletion
Hetzner Cloud made LB HTTP idle timeouts tunable (30–300s, up from a fixed 50s) and banned deleting assigned IPs. What both changes mean for ingress tuning and IP-failover runbooks on a self-hosted fleet.
One 8-vCPU Cloud VM Now Costs More Than a 24-Core Bare-Metal Server: Hetzner's EX130 and the Post-Repricing Fleet Node Map
Hetzner's €134 EX130 dedicated server packs 24 cores and 256 GB of ECC DDR5 for less than one 8-vCPU cloud VM — a worked per-core and per-GB comparison, which Cluster API fleet pools move to buy-new metal, and where cloud elasticity still wins.
Hetzner's Cheap Tier Is Unavailable: What the Missing €5.99 Server Means for Fleet Planning
Hetzner's entire Cost-Optimized tier shows unavailable with no new price announcement — the cheapest orderable 4 GB server costs 3.34x the listed €5.99. A fleet-planning runbook for pinning SKUs, remodeling cost on orderable capacity, and treating availability as a monitored variable.
Still on Heroku? A Stay-or-Leave Framework for the Long Tail, From $5 Eco Dynos to $250 Performance-M
Salesforce gave Heroku no end-of-life date — only a sustaining-mode freeze. A cohort-by-cohort stay-or-leave framework from $5 Eco dynos to $250 Performance-M, keyed on dyno count, Postgres entanglement, and ops capacity.
Heroku's $50 and $250 Dynos Are Where the Math Flips: What One Dyno vs Five Really Costs
One Heroku dyno is $50 a month; five are $250 to $1,250 before the database. A worked one-vs-five comparison across Heroku, Render, and Fly.io at September 2026 prices, the flat-rate alternative for the same workloads, and the checklist that tells you when the math has flipped.
Every Vendor Published a Heroku-Alternatives Ranking in 2026: How to Read a Competitor's Comparison Page Before You Migrate
Heroku's February 2026 sustaining-engineering announcement triggered a gold rush of vendor-authored rankings, each crowning its own author. A five-check audit card for reading competitor comparisons, applied live to three real pages, plus the flat-rate cost row none of them print.
Heroku's Data Layer Is the Hard Part of the Exit
Every Heroku exit guide prices the $50 dynos and waves at the add-ons — but sustaining mode froze the platform, not the Postgres EOL treadmill. A data-first playbook: what the freeze means for Postgres, Redis, and Kafka, size-tiered migration mechanics, and where the state lands.
Google Just Normalized the Governed Agent Endpoint: What Its Home and UN Data Commons MCP Servers Mean for Your Self-Hosted PaaS Roadmap
Google shipped first-party MCP servers for Home and UN data in a single week. Here is the six-part governance bar they normalized, and what it demands from any self-hosted platform shipping an agent endpoint.
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