619 posts tagged with "Cost Optimization"
Cloud vs owned-hardware cost breakdowns and bill analysis
k3s Now, EKS Later? Pricing Ownkube's Graduation Ladder Against Cluster API on Day One
Ownkube lets teams start on hosted compute and graduate the same app into their own AWS account, from free single-node to metered multi-AZ. A priced run of one steady 2-vCPU team workload across every rung — plus what re-surfaces on migration day — against committing to Cluster API on flat hardware from the first deploy.
Railway Shipped a Free CDN, but Your Egress Bill Didn't Get the Memo
Railway launched a free Fastly-powered CDN in March 2026 — opt-in, off by default, with HTML always served from origin. A worked bill for 500 GB of monthly assets at 0%, 70%, and 90% edge-hit ratios against a flat Hetzner box, plus the SSR case where the CDN barely helps.
Render Repriced Twice in One Week: Why the Migration Question Is the Full Bill, Not the $7 Starting Price
Render logged price-point changes on August 22 and August 28, 2026. A line-by-line cost sheet for an always-on web service plus Postgres at 5, 25, and 100 GB of traffic against a flat Hetzner CX22 — and why per-service multiplication, bandwidth overage, and workspace fees move the bill more than the headline price.
Render Traded $19 Seats for a $0.15/GB Meter: A 20-Person Team's Bill at 1TB, 2TB, and 5TB
Render's August 1 rollout swapped $19 per-seat pricing for a $25 flat Pro plan with unlimited members — and cut included bandwidth from 500GB to 25GB at $0.15/GB over. A worked before/after bill for a 20-person team at 1TB, 2TB, and 5TB, the small-team cases that pay more, and what the same traffic costs on owned hardware.
The Heroku Exit Playbook: Procfile to Buildpack, Every Add-on Decision, and the Real Before/After Bill
A step-by-step playbook for actually leaving Heroku's sustaining-engineering mode: Procfile to manifest, add-ons sorted into keep/replace/lose, secrets without a leak window, a rehearsed database cutover, and a real before/after bill.
8% CPU, 69% Overprovisioning: A 30-Minute Kubernetes Fleet Audit
Measure allocatable, requested, and used resources in 30 minutes, then test whether a self-hosted Kubernetes fleet can safely remove a node without sacrificing N-1 resilience.
DigitalOcean App Platform Legacy Plans in 2026: Stay, Migrate, or Self-Host?
DigitalOcean still supports App Platform apps created before May 7, 2024, but says legacy plans will be deprecated soon. Here is the bill math for staying, moving to current pricing, or running the same small fleet on owned Hetzner capacity.
CI Runner Pricing in 2026: Depot, Blacksmith, and the Cost of Reserving Your Own Build Capacity
A reproducible CI-runner cost model across 2, 8, and 20 concurrent jobs: current Depot and Blacksmith pricing beside the fixed cost of reserving self-hosted build nodes.
Porter's 0.01-vCPU Promise Meets the BYOC Cost Floor
Porter bills requested CPU and RAM inside your cloud account, but a BYOC cluster still has a fixed cost. A three-way example shows where granular requests help, where hosted tiers win, and how ownership changes the bill.