Render's $1.5B Valuation and a 20× Bandwidth Cut in the Same Quarter: Who $0.15/GB Egress Is Actually Priced For
Render raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation in the same quarter it cut Hobby bandwidth 20× — from 100GB to 5GB at $0.15/GB overage. A worked table prices 5GB to 5TB on Render Hobby/Pro/Scale against a Hetzner CX22's flat 20TB to show who the new meter is actually priced for.
51 Days to Fix Object Storage: What a Seven-Week Remediation Tells You About the Real Reliability Bar
Scaleway's AMS object storage incident took 33 to 51 days to fully remediate region by region in H1 2026 — no data loss, but seven weeks where the managed SLA was the thing that was broken.
SST Put Itself in Maintenance Mode to Build an AI Agent — 650K Devs in Five Months Shows Where Infra Builders Are Betting
SST has been in maintenance mode since 2025 while its team's terminal agent OpenCode hit 650K developers in five months. A timeline, market math, risk matrix, and migration checklist for teams still on SST.
Vercel at $200 vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Framework-Agnostic Cost Teardown
The same Next.js SSR + API workload lands between $20 and $200/month on Vercel Pro once invocations, ISR and edge middleware meter separately — versus €3.79 flat on a Hetzner box with no per-request billing. A line-by-line teardown of where the bill actually moves.
Fourteen Criteria, Ten Platforms, Three Bills: When Railway and Render Stop Being Cheap
Selko's July 2026 evaluation scored ten platforms on fourteen weighted criteria and priced the same app at $0-10, $40-60, and $200-500 — then we verified every live 2026 meter and ran the break-even math on when flat bandwidth beats per-GB billing.
Gateway API 1.5 Is GA and Ingress-NGINX Is Dead — Your Migration Inventory for a Fleet That Routes Every Tenant Domain
Gateway API 1.5 promoted six features to GA on February 27, 2026 — the same quarter ingress-nginx shipped its final release. A concrete annotation-by-annotation inventory of what ingress2gateway translates cleanly, what needs hand-authoring, and why a botched migration on a PaaS that routes hundreds of tenant domains is fleet-wide breakage.
Hetzner Doubled Your x86 Bill and Barely Touched ARM: The CAX Cost-per-vCPU Recheck
Hetzner's June 15, 2026 repricing hit CPX and CCX with 113-175% hikes while CAX rose only 30%. A line-by-line cost-per-vCPU recompute, fleet math that turns the gap into thousands per year, and which workloads move to ARM without a rebuild.
Railway's $5 Hobby Plan Is a $5 Credit, Not a $5 Flat Fee: Where It Beats — and Loses to — a €4 Hetzner Box
Railway's $5 Hobby fee is $5 of usage credit at $10/GB RAM and $20/vCPU per month. A line-by-line teardown at three workload sizes shows where the meter overtakes a flat €3.79 Hetzner CX22 — and the exact GB where renting costs more than owning.
Render's $1.5B Valuation Hides a $0.15/GB Question: What 100% Growth Doesn't Tell You About Your Next Bill
Render hit a $1.5B valuation on 100%+ growth the same quarter it cut included bandwidth to 5GB Hobby and 25GB Pro at $0.15/GB. A line-by-line sweep from 25GB to 2TB shows what that actually costs versus a flat Hetzner box — and why valuation is the wrong signal for your next bill.