640 posts tagged with "Kubernetes"
Container orchestration, Cluster API, and self-hosted control planes
Hetzner's 2026 Price Shocks: What Two Repricings Did to the 'Owning Hardware Is Cheaper' Pitch
Hetzner raised prices twice in five months — 30% in April, up to 176% on CPX/CCX in June — driven by a 171% DRAM surge. Here is what changed per instance family and what a real Cluster API fleet costs before and after both hikes.
Two Incidents in Four Days: What Hetzner's Provisioning Delay Actually Costs When You Don't Multi-Cloud
Hetzner logged two incidents four days apart in July 2026 — a rack network fault and a resource-creation delay. Only one would have taken your tenants down, and telling them apart is the real operator skill.
Kubernetes Is 80% Cheaper Than Heroku — Until You Pay the Ops Bill
The viral 80% cheaper claim holds on raw compute — Hetzner beats Railway and Render by 50 to 83% in 2026 dollars — but a realistic ops burden flips the result for small teams. Three worked bills, post-hike Hetzner prices, and the break-even math.
OVHcloud and Hetzner Both Raised Prices in 2026: What the Budget EU Squeeze Means for Your Self-Hosted Fleet
OVHcloud and Hetzner both repriced in 2026 on the same DRAM shock — OVHcloud 9-11% annually through 2028, Hetzner 37% then up to 176% on CCX/CPX. A recomputed Cluster API fleet model and what diversifying providers truly costs.
PaaS by Default, Kubernetes the Exception: What the 2026 Consensus Flip Gets Right — and What It Still Gets Wrong
Hacker News in 2026 flipped a decade of advice: PaaS should be the default, Kubernetes the exception. The median-team insight is correct — but the single-box framing is a false binary. A git-push PaaS built on Cluster API gives you the PaaS surface without the one-machine ceiling.
UpCloud's €3 Starter Plans Undercut Post-Hike Hetzner: What a Second EU Provider Actually Buys Your Node Pool
UpCloud's €3 Starter plans land below Hetzner's twice-repriced entry tier in May 2026. A tabled price, region, and Cluster API readiness comparison of what a second Finnish-EU provider actually buys a fleet that runs on owned hardware.
Your Cloud Account, Their Control Plane: Why Edka's BYO-Hetzner Model Is Winning
Edka hit 437 points on HN spinning up production-ready Kubernetes on Hetzner in ~2 minutes inside your own account — you own the servers, the bill, and the exit. How the BYO-account pattern beats both closed PaaS and DIY, how it compares to Cluster API Provider Hetzner, and what trust actually requires before you hand over an API token.
Fly.io at $11M ARR With Zero Open Roles: How to Read a PaaS Vendor's Vital Signs Before You Bet Your Stack
Mid-2026 snapshots peg Fly.io around $11M ARR with no open roles while Render touts a $1.5B valuation on 100%+ YoY growth — and Fly's own plan deprecations plus new 2026 billing lines look like optimizing the base, not sprinting. A five-signal checklist for auditing any PaaS before you migrate, a scored walkthrough on Fly.io, and why the hedge isn't multi-cloud but a real exit path you can test.
Mooring Skipped the Orchestrator: Why a Typed YAML PaaS Still Hits a One-Machine Ceiling
Mooring ships a security-first, typed mooring.yaml control plane that owns your Compose file and handles HTTPS, monitoring, and self-healing — without Swarm or Kubernetes. What that model gets right on one machine, and the five things that concretely break the moment you need a second.