619 posts tagged with "Cost Optimization"
Cloud vs owned-hardware cost breakdowns and bill analysis
Northflank Has Four Kubernetes Modes. Only One Puts You in the Driver's Seat
Northflank markets four ways to run Kubernetes under its platform. Three of them mean Northflank's software still operates the control plane — only one hands that job to you. Here's the breakdown, with real numbers.
The $2 Million Threshold: What Building Your Own Platform Actually Costs
A cloud bill supposedly needs to hit $2M a year before building your own platform beats renting one — except that $2M is platform-team payroll, not an infrastructure bill, and running a self-hosted PaaS on owned hardware gets the same capability for roughly a third to two-thirds of the cost.
What Bunnyshell and Okteto Actually Charge for 'Namespace Per PR' — And What It Costs to Build Once
A line-by-line breakdown of what Bunnyshell's per-minute meter and Okteto's per-seat fee actually cost a mid-size team's PR preview environments each month, versus building the same namespace-per-PR workflow on owned Cluster API infrastructure.
Hetzner's GEX131 GPU Server: What €889/Month for a Blackwell RTX PRO 6000 Buys Against AWS's g5.xlarge
Hetzner's GEX131 costs more per month than AWS's g5.xlarge — but a third as much per gigabyte of VRAM. Here's the worked cost-per-GB math across on-demand, spot, and reserved AWS pricing, plus what 96GB of VRAM actually unlocks that 24GB can't.
Kamaji Turns Kubernetes Control Planes Into Pods — But It Only Cuts the Control-Plane Bill, Not the Worker-Node One
A worked cost model for Kamaji's Cluster API control-plane provider: what running tenant control planes as pods actually removes from a self-hosted fleet's bill, what it leaves untouched, and where its shared-kernel isolation stops being enough.
Fly.io's 'Global Edge' Has a 6x Egress Cliff — and Flat Hetzner Pricing Wins the Workload It's Marketed For
Fly.io bills egress at 6x more to Africa and India than to North America and Europe — exactly the traffic its 'deploy close to your users' pitch is supposed to serve. Here's the worked cost comparison against Hetzner's flat, destination-blind bandwidth.
The Kubernetes Descheduler Can Cut Compute Spend 30-50% — Here's the Math on a Real Hetzner Fleet
A worked example turning the abstract 'bin-packing cuts compute 30-50%' claim into real node counts and euros on a Hetzner fleet, plus the PodDisruptionBudget and eviction-cadence config a multi-tenant PaaS needs before enabling it.
Hetzner Raised Prices Twice in 2026: What It Actually Does to the Self-Hosting Cost Pitch
Hetzner's shared-vCPU lines rose 30-38% in 2026; its dedicated-vCPU lines rose up to 173%. Here's the redone self-host-vs-PaaS break-even math by node class, and the rescale trap that quietly reprices a fleet you thought was grandfathered.
Depot's Cache Meter vs. Your Own NVMe: What $0.20/GB Actually Costs a Real Cache Footprint
Depot bills its remote build cache at $0.20/GB/month past your plan's allotment. Here's the worked math on what that costs a real dependency cache footprint against a self-hosted fleet's own NVMe, which charges nothing extra for storage it already owns.