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Gateway API v1.6 Graduates TCPRoute to Standard: Exposing Postgres, MQTT, and Game Servers Without NodePort Hacks
·Dora Noda·11 min

Gateway API v1.6 Graduates TCPRoute to Standard: Exposing Postgres, MQTT, and Game Servers Without NodePort Hacks

Gateway API v1.6 moves TCPRoute and UDPRoute to v1 on the Standard channel. A concrete guide to replacing NodePort and per-service LoadBalancers with one Gateway, a support matrix for Envoy Gateway, Cilium, Traefik and NGINX Gateway Fabric, and the port and TLS semantics that still bite.

Kubernetes
PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
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Hetzner's $40 → $103 Hike Broke US Math: Hetzner US vs OVHcloud vs Domestic VPS, Line by Line
·Dora Noda·16 min

Hetzner's $40 → $103 Hike Broke US Math: Hetzner US vs OVHcloud vs Domestic VPS, Line by Line

Hetzner's CCX23 jumped from $39.99 to $102.99 on June 15 (+157.5%). For a US team the headline is only half the bill — US regions include 1 TB, not 20 TB. A 5 TB workload costs $107 on Hetzner US, $37 on OVHcloud unlimited, and $116 on a domestic VPS.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
cloud infrastructure
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Sold Out, Not Priced Out: What Hetzner's "Limited Availability" Means When Your Autoscaler Can't Buy a Server
·Dora Noda·10 min

Sold Out, Not Priced Out: What Hetzner's "Limited Availability" Means When Your Autoscaler Can't Buy a Server

Hetzner's status page now shows 'Limited availability of Cloud plans' — not a price hike, a sold-out wall. See what that looks like on a CAPH MachineDeployment, the two-pool fallback YAML that survives it, and why a visible queue beats a hosted PaaS's invisible one.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
infrastructure
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410 Gone on October 1: The Pre-Deadline Hetzner Datacenter Audit for Cluster API Fleets
·Dora Noda·10 min

410 Gone on October 1: The Pre-Deadline Hetzner Datacenter Audit for Cluster API Fleets

Hetzner's GET /v1/datacenters returns 410 Gone on October 1, 2026 — the last of four stacked removals that already broke datacenter on Servers and Primary IPs July 1. A concrete 15-minute audit and CI guard for every Cluster API, Terraform, and Ansible manifest that still names a datacenter.

Kubernetes
infrastructure
self-hosting
PaaS
Hetzner's June 15 Hike Hit CCX 175%: Recomputing What Your Bex Fleet Really Costs
·Dora Noda·16 min

Hetzner's June 15 Hike Hit CCX 175%: Recomputing What Your Bex Fleet Really Costs

Hetzner split its cloud catalog on June 15 — CX and CAX rose ~33% while CCX and CPX more than doubled. A three-node Bex fleet now spans €16 to €129 a month depending only on which family your MachineDeployment asks for.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
cloud infrastructure
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k0rdent 1.0 vs Plain Cluster API: What a Super Control Plane Actually Buys Your Fleet
·Dora Noda·14 min

k0rdent 1.0 vs Plain Cluster API: What a Super Control Plane Actually Buys Your Fleet

k0rdent 1.0 pairs Cluster API with a template-driven super control plane for fleet-wide provisioning and FinOps. Here's what its KCM/KOF stack buys over plain CAPH plus Flux — and where the leaner setup still wins.

Kubernetes
infrastructure
self-hosting
PaaS
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K8gb Hits CNCF Incubating: DNS GSLB for Self-Hosted Clusters Without Route 53
·Dora Noda·13 min

K8gb Hits CNCF Incubating: DNS GSLB for Self-Hosted Clusters Without Route 53

k8gb moved to CNCF Incubating on July 18, 2026 — the first vendor-neutral DNS GSLB to clear the bar. One Gslb CR, two Hetzner regions, and 30-second DNS failover with no Route 53 or Cloudflare LB.

Kubernetes
infrastructure
self-hosting
PaaS
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Kubero Nailed Kubernetes-Native PaaS — But Somebody Still Has to Build the Cluster
·Dora Noda·13 min

Kubero Nailed Kubernetes-Native PaaS — But Somebody Still Has to Build the Cluster

Kubero gives you Heroku-like deploys on Kubernetes with GitOps review apps and 160+ templates, but it won't provision the cluster. A table-driven comparison with Coolify and Dokploy shows where single-box ends, where Kubero fits, and why a Cluster API fleet is the missing machine layer.

Kubernetes
PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
Netcup's €8.74 Box vs Hetzner's €42.99 CCX: What a Second EU Provider Actually Costs Your Fleet
·Dora Noda·19 min

Netcup's €8.74 Box vs Hetzner's €42.99 CCX: What a Second EU Provider Actually Costs Your Fleet

After Hetzner's third 2026 hike tripled dedicated CCX pricing, Netcup's RS 1000 G12 offers 4 dedicated EPYC cores for €8.74 — but no CAPH provider, fewer regions, and no declarative machine lifecycle. A fleet-scale recompute with honest gaps.

self-hosting
PaaS
cost-optimization
cloud infrastructure
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