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Fly.io's Trial-Credit Runway: What Month 13 Costs When the $5 Runs Out
·Dora Noda·10 min

Fly.io's Trial-Credit Runway: What Month 13 Costs When the $5 Runs Out

A $5 Fly.io credit lasts ten months for an idle side project and eighteen days for an always-on starter. Here is the line-by-line month-13 bill versus a flat-rate Hetzner box, and why a credit with no free tier behind it is a countdown.

PaaS
cost-optimization
self-hosting
Fly.io's Seven Incidents in Nine Days: What Reading a Status History as a Migration Signal Actually Looks Like
·Dora Noda·11 min

Fly.io's Seven Incidents in Nine Days: What Reading a Status History as a Migration Signal Actually Looks Like

Fly.io logged seven status-page incidents in nine days across builders, edge network, metrics, certs, and datacenter power. A tally of what broke, whether it is a pattern or a bad week, and a five-check method for reading any vendor's status history as a migration input.

PaaS
self-hosting
migration
infrastructure
One Config Field, 12,000 Exposed Boxes: What Flowise's CustomMCP RCE Teaches Anyone Exposing Agent Tools
·Dora Noda·10 min

One Config Field, 12,000 Exposed Boxes: What Flowise's CustomMCP RCE Teaches Anyone Exposing Agent Tools

Flowise's CustomMCP node turned a config string into remote code execution on 12,000+ internet-exposed instances. The anatomy of CVE-2025-59528, the sibling CVEs proving it is a pattern, and a six-rule checklist for anyone running an MCP or agent-tool surface.

security
AI agents
Model Context Protocol
self-hosting
Envoy AI Gateway Hits 1.0: What an LLM-Aware Kubernetes Gateway Actually Load-Balances On
·Dora Noda·10 min

Envoy AI Gateway Hits 1.0: What an LLM-Aware Kubernetes Gateway Actually Load-Balances On

Envoy AI Gateway reached 1.0 as the standard routing layer for self-hosted LLM traffic on Kubernetes. How InferencePool endpoint selection on KV-cache state and queue depth beats round-robin — with benchmarks — and what it means for fleets you run yourself.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
LLM
infrastructure
Stop Letting GPU Requests Pend: Kubernetes 1.36's DRA Prioritized Alternatives
·Dora Noda·9 min

Stop Letting GPU Requests Pend: Kubernetes 1.36's DRA Prioritized Alternatives

Exact-match GPU requests leave pods pending while other card types sit idle. Kubernetes 1.36's stable DRA prioritized lists let one claim say H100, A100, or T4 — here is the claim-template design, the scoring behavior, and four gotchas for mixed-card fleets.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
AI
Dokploy in 2026: How Close Is Single-Server PaaS to Cluster API?
·Dora Noda·11 min

Dokploy in 2026: How Close Is Single-Server PaaS to Cluster API?

Dokploy spent 2026 adding remote servers, previews, external secrets, and agent tooling. This inventory sorts which additions actually raise the single-box ceiling from dashboard polish, and names the machine-layer line that still needs declarative provisioning.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
Dokku vs Dokploy vs Kubero: Three Generations of Self-Hosted Heroku Alternatives
·Dora Noda·12 min

Dokku vs Dokploy vs Kubero: Three Generations of Self-Hosted Heroku Alternatives

Dokku, Dokploy, and Kubero are three generations of the same idea: Heroku-style deploys on infrastructure you own. A head-to-head on deploy flow, scaling, HA, multi-node reality, and upgrade pain, plus where declarative machine provisioning fits next.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
migration
Django Hosting in 2026: $140+/Month on Heroku vs $38+ on Render vs $15–35 on Fly.io — Migrate the Bill or Exit Metered Compute?
·Dora Noda·10 min

Django Hosting in 2026: $140+/Month on Heroku vs $38+ on Render vs $15–35 on Fly.io — Migrate the Bill or Exit Metered Compute?

The same production Django stack costs $140+/month on Heroku, $38+ on Render, $15–35 on Fly.io, or a flat $5–40 on owned hardware. A like-for-like price breakdown plus the Django migration checklist for each path.

PaaS
migration
cost-optimization
self-hosting
Deplo Takes Your VPS Over: What a Migration-First Panel's 66-of-67 Dokploy Import Really Proves About Single-Box Lock-In
·Dora Noda·12 min

Deplo Takes Your VPS Over: What a Migration-First Panel's 66-of-67 Dokploy Import Really Proves About Single-Box Lock-In

Deplo's installer reads a Dokploy or Coolify panel over its own API and recreates it with data included — 66 of 67 apps landed untouched in its September 4 audit. The named misses reveal where single-box lock-in really lives, and why the move still stops at per-app placement.

PaaS
self-hosting
migration
infrastructure
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