619 posts tagged with "Cost Optimization"
Cloud vs owned-hardware cost breakdowns and bill analysis
The Kubernetes Integration Tax, Itemized: What Prometheus, Cilium, and the Rest Really Cost a Two-Person Platform Team
An itemized accounting of self-hosted Kubernetes: what Cilium, Prometheus, TLS, GitOps, backups, upgrades, and policy cost a two-person team in setup and quarterly maintenance hours, converted to dollars and set against a $23–54 hosted PaaS bill.
Railway's Second Managed HA Database Changes the Migration Math: MySQL HA Goes GA
Railway's MySQL HA went GA five months after HA Postgres. This breakdown works the cost math for renting both managed databases versus running both on owned hardware — and names the three things the HA checkbox still leaves unanswered.
Strimzi Eases Kafka Onto Kubernetes: What 'Just Run Our Event Bus' Really Costs a Self-Hosted PaaS
A tenant asked your platform team to 'just run Kafka.' This breakdown prices a Strimzi-hosted event bus against MSK, Confluent Cloud, and serverless options — with a reference workload, sensitivity ranges, and a documented build-or-BYO decision checklist.
Uber Burned Its Entire 2026 AI Coding Budget by April: What Ungoverned Agentic Spend Means for Teams Running Their Own Deploy Infra
Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in four months after Claude Code adoption jumped from 32% to 84% of its 5,000 engineers. The timeline, the token economics behind it, and a six-control governance playbook for teams whose agents also deploy.
Dokploy Has an MCP Server Too — and It's Bigger Than Coolify's: An AI-Agent Operator's Comparison on a $5 Hetzner Box
Dokploy's official MCP server gives AI agents full deploy and lifecycle control while Coolify's built-in MCP is read-only — here is what each agent interface can actually do, and what each control plane costs in idle RAM on a $5 Hetzner box.
From Metered API to RuntimeClass: Building E2B-Style Sandboxes on Your Own K8s Fleet
The sandbox cost math already settled: past ~400 sandbox-hours a month, owned hardware wins. This is the build guide for what comes next — three paths to E2B-style sandboxes on your own fleet, with Kata Containers on Cluster API as the one that skips the second orchestrator.
The $5 Free Credit Is Gone: What It Really Costs to Evaluate a PaaS in 2026
Fly.io ended its $5 monthly credit for new accounts, leaving a 2-VM-hour trial before pay-from-dollar-one billing. A worked comparison of what 30 days of evaluation costs on Fly.io, Railway, Render, and a €3.79 Hetzner box.
Fly.io Killed GPUs on August 1: Where the Workloads Go and What They Cost Now
Fly.io shut down its entire GPU line on August 1, 2026 — not because it is failing, but because GPUs were never its core business. A side-by-side cost comparison with owned Hetzner hardware and hourly GPU markets, plus a migration map by workload shape.
Hetzner Nearly Tripled Bare-Metal Prices: What the AX102's €124-to-€454 Jump Means for Self-Hosting Math
Hetzner's June 2026 repricing pushed the AX102 from €124 to €454 a month. A worked before-and-after comparison shows the self-hosting case compressed but intact — and why a plannable step hike beats a silent usage meter.