Unlimited Apps, One Flat Bill: What PocketBaseCloud's $25 Show HN Pitch Reveals About Per-Project Pricing
PocketBaseCloud's Show HN offers unlimited small apps on a $25 flat slice — we work the N-app math against Supabase per-project metering, Vercel usage billing, and a $6 self-hosted box.
Where to Host Your Web App in Late 2026: The Indie Decision Tree, Plus the Self-Hosted Option It Omits
Flavio Copes re-checked every hosting price in September 2026 — Hetzner up 37.5%, Netlify free capped at 20 deploys, Vercel flat-rate bandwidth. A row-by-row read of the indie decision tree, plus the self-hosted PaaS row the guide omits.
Render Sleeps, Fly Meters, Railway Floors: One Repo's HOSTING.md as a PaaS Decision Record
OurHike's HOSTING.md priced one backend on Render, Fly.io, and Railway — then reversed itself when its premise expired. A worked read with refreshed October 2026 prices, a floor-vs-meter breakeven, and the missing marginal-cost row for owned hardware.
Three Vendors Pitched You a Heroku Exit in 2026. Here's What All Three Guides Left Out.
Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Cloud66 each published a Heroku exit guide after the February 2026 sustaining-mode announcement: a totaled reference bill (147 USD/mo) against all three landings, the egress sensitivity math that flips the ranking, and the meters, mappings, and labor the guides omit.
The Reliability Tier Is the Real Price Tag: Railway HA vs Render's New Plans vs Your Own Fleet
Railway's experimental HA Postgres and Render's flat-rate workspace plans repriced reliability in spring 2026: about $187/mo versus $116/mo for a two-replica HA setup against $35/mo on owned Hetzner machines, plus the sensitivity math on replicas, egress, and team size.
52,000 Stars for Coolify, 32,000 for Dokploy, 15,000 for CapRover: What Star Velocity Says About the Self-Hosted PaaS Market in 2026
Coolify adds roughly a thousand GitHub stars a week, Dokploy has nearly doubled to 36,000, and CapRover sits flat near 15,000. What star velocity plus release pace reveal about consolidation in the single-box PaaS market — and the second-machine ceiling the winner shares with everyone else.
Coolify vs CapRover for Solo Devs: What the Polish Verdict Gets Right — and the Second-Machine Ceiling Neither Lifts
SoloDevStack scored Coolify 9/10 and CapRover 7/10 on polish. A claim-by-claim audit confirms the verdict for week one — then runs the second-machine checklist both panels fail, and names what replaces 'which panel' once one box is not enough.
Hetzner's €5.99 Server Is a Number You Can't Buy: What the Missing Cheap Tier Does to the Self-Hosting Price Anchor
Hetzner's €5.99 cloud server is still on the price list but every Cost-Optimized model is marked unavailable, forcing new deployments onto tiers costing 3.34× to 4.24× more. This post traces the two 2026 price hikes, the DRAM shortage behind them, and how to re-anchor self-hosting budgets to the catalog you can actually order from.
514 Blueprints vs 354 Apps vs 280+ Services: Why Template Count Is a Vanity Metric That Hides the Single-Box Ceiling
Dokploy lists 514 blueprints, CapRover 354 apps, and Coolify 280+ services. What a template count actually measures — packaged Compose files plus contributor throughput — and the five capabilities no catalog entry provides once one box is not enough.