Hetzner's June 15 Hike Hit CCX 175%: Recomputing What Your Bex Fleet Really Costs
Hetzner split its cloud catalog on June 15 — CX and CAX rose ~33% while CCX and CPX more than doubled. A three-node Bex fleet now spans €16 to €129 a month depending only on which family your MachineDeployment asks for.
Kubernetes 1.36 Can Scale to Zero — But Not Like Render Does: What a Self-Hosted PaaS Still Has to Wire
Kubernetes 1.36 keeps HPA scale-to-zero in alpha, disabled by default and limited to External/Object metrics. A concrete walkthrough of what a Cluster API fleet still needs — KEDA HTTP add-on or Knative activator, external metrics, and probe math — to give tenants real scale-to-zero without renting Render's cold-start model.
Netcup's €8.74 Box vs Hetzner's €42.99 CCX: What a Second EU Provider Actually Costs Your Fleet
After Hetzner's third 2026 hike tripled dedicated CCX pricing, Netcup's RS 1000 G12 offers 4 dedicated EPYC cores for €8.74 — but no CAPH provider, fewer regions, and no declarative machine lifecycle. A fleet-scale recompute with honest gaps.
100 Platforms, One Catch: What Free Hosting Actually Gives You in 2026
A 150-platform free-tier census went viral in 2026. Here's what Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, AWS and a raw VPS actually give you for free — what breaks at month 13 — and what the same hobby stack costs on a €4.49 Hetzner box that never had a free tier to expire.
51 Days to Fix Object Storage: What a Seven-Week Remediation Tells You About the Real Reliability Bar
Scaleway's AMS object storage incident took 33 to 51 days to fully remediate region by region in H1 2026 — no data loss, but seven weeks where the managed SLA was the thing that was broken.
Vercel at $200 vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Framework-Agnostic Cost Teardown
The same Next.js SSR + API workload lands between $20 and $200/month on Vercel Pro once invocations, ISR and edge middleware meter separately — versus €3.79 flat on a Hetzner box with no per-request billing. A line-by-line teardown of where the bill actually moves.
Cloudflare Containers vs a €4 Hetzner Box: What a Container Next to Your Worker Actually Costs
Cloudflare Containers bills per 10ms with scale-to-zero; a Hetzner CX23 costs €3.99 flat with 20TB included. Three workloads priced line by line show when the edge container wins and when the owned box wins — and why it is a latency versus predictability tradeoff.
Fly.io's $2.02 Machine Isn't Your Bill: The Five Metered Lines That Double It
Fly.io's $2.02 Machine is the headline, not the invoice. A line-by-line reconstruction of what volumes, egress, egress IPs, snapshots, and private networking add to a real app — and what the same stack costs flat on Hetzner.
The Four PaaS Pricing Pages You Must Re-Audit in Q3 2026: Railway, Render, Fly, and Vercel After Active CPU
Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel all moved their meters in 2026. A same-workload, line-by-line bill recompute across all four — plus the flat Hetzner baseline — shows where costs really diverge.