283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io in 2026: Auditing the Verdict Table, Then Pricing the Hetzner Row It Never Includes
Techsy's 2026 Railway-vs-Render-vs-Fly.io verdicts mostly survive September — but the fine print doesn't: a wrong idle-pricing claim, a regional egress tripwire, a stale seat price, and a missing Hetzner column that undercuts every managed row.
Render Now Mints Short-Lived OIDC Tokens for Anthropic and OpenAI: The Beginning of the End for LLM API Keys in Env Vars
Render's July 2026 changelog lets services authenticate to Anthropic and OpenAI with short-lived OIDC tokens instead of pasted API keys. How the federation works, the setup on each side, and the native equivalent on self-hosted Kubernetes.
Fixed vs Metered: What Render, Railway, and Fly.io Really Cost for Three Typical Workloads
Render's fixed instance prices, Railway and Fly.io's per-second metering, and a flat-rate Hetzner box — costed line by line for a steady web service, a bursty cron job, and an idle staging env, with the utilization crossover where the ranking flips.
Seven Docker-Native Heroku Alternatives, Priced on the Same Stack: What Suga's September 2026 Guide Really Says
Suga's September 2026 guide verified pricing for seven Docker-native Heroku alternatives on September 15. All seven are priced here on one identical stack, with the $115 Heroku baseline, a $5 Hetzner flat box, and the egress and seat variables that move every bill.
Techsy Crowned a Winner at Each Tier. Here's the Same Table With a Fourth Column: Hetzner.
Techsy's July 2026 comparison priced the same app on Railway, Render, and Fly.io at four tiers. We add the missing fourth column — the same stack self-hosted on Hetzner — and name the hosted developer experience a self-hosted PaaS must match to make the savings stick.
Three PaaSes, Ten Days, Nine Incidents: What Vercel, Fly.io, and Render's July 2026 Status Pages Show Side by Side
Vercel, Fly.io, and Render posted nine status-page incidents between July 17 and 27, 2026 — from unrecoverable telemetry loss to a worldwide API outage. A side-by-side read of what broke, whether the failures share a cause, and the honest self-hosted counterpoint.
Fly.io Added Two New Billing Lines in 2026: The Real Cost of a Global Edge Deploy (With Egress Math)
Fly.io added two metered billing lines in January 2026 — volume snapshots and app-scoped egress IPs. A worked teardown of the full invoice: a two-region app costs about $14 a month at 100GB of egress but $112 at 5TB, versus $15 flat on owned hardware — plus the decision rule for when the edge meter is worth it.
Fly.io's Second Depot Builder Outage in Two Months: What Renting Your Build Fleet Really Costs
Fly.io's September 15 Depot builder outage was the second remote-build failure in two months — and the eighth in a year. A ledger of every incident, the dollar math of rented build minutes versus an owned BuildKit box, and what fleet-local builds change.
Heroku-20 Is Dead and Heroku Is Frozen: Rebuild Your Stack With pack build Before You Migrate
Heroku-20 can't deploy and Heroku's roadmap is over — reproduce your frozen build locally with pack build and Heroku's own CNB builder, fix the five classic-buildpack-isms that break outside Heroku's base image, and carry a portable OCI image to your next platform.