Railway's 18 Open Roles vs Fly.io's Zero: Why a PaaS Careers Page Is a Terrible Reliability Signal
In July 2026 Railway listed 18 open roles while coming off five major outages, and Fly.io listed zero while raising $25 million. A headcount-vs-incident-record reading of three PaaS vendors, plus a six-signal checklist for judging vendor health before you migrate.
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.
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.
Theo Graded the Platforms. Fly.io Answered. Both Missed the Exit Costs
Theo Browne questioned whether Fly.io survives the year; CEO Kurt Mackey answered with a fundraise, a new CEO, and a pivot to agent computers. Pricing the same terabyte on six platforms — and scoring who pays when platforms pivot — shows what tier lists miss and where a €10 Hetzner box lands.
Europe's Sovereign GPU Price Table: The Two Break-Evens That Decide Rent-vs-Own Inference
Hetzner rents H100s at ~$2.80/hr and OVHcloud at ~$3.20/hr, neither sells H200 time, and a $989/month dedicated box beats both past ~45% utilization. The full table, the math, and why sovereignty is a discount here.
Hetzner's Datacenters API Goes 410 on October 1: The 4-Row Checklist for Your CAPH Fleet
On October 1, 2026, Hetzner's datacenters API endpoints start returning HTTP 410 Gone — while retired server-type names and a removed datacenter field can already break provisioning today. A four-row migration checklist for Cluster API fleets on Hetzner, with the greps and the runbook.
Railway vs Vercel vs Cloudflare: What Bursty Builds Really Cost Per Second (and When a Flat Hetzner Node Wins)
Railway, Vercel, and Cloudflare all bill per second but meter different things. A worked recompute at three burst tiers shows where metered builds beat a flat Hetzner node — and where they quietly lose.
Valkey Won the Default: What a git-push PaaS Should Bundle Now That the Redis Fork Became the Safe Choice
Two years after Redis gave up the BSD license, Valkey is the default on major Linux distros and the recommended engine on ElastiCache at 20-33% lower prices. A cost-vs-gain accounting for making it your platform's standard cache, plus the one boundary where Redis still wins.
Fly.io Added Two Billing Lines in 60 Days: What They Do to a Three-Service Bill
Fly.io started billing volume snapshots in January 2026 and Managed Postgres cross-region traffic in February. A worked before/after bill for a three-service HA stack, the retention and region levers that move it, and the same stack priced on Hetzner hardware.