283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Heroku's Limits Are Now Permanent: The 30-Second Timeout, Daily Restarts, and AWS-Only Regions Your Bill Can't Fix
Heroku's 30-second timeout, daily dyno restarts, and two-region AWS-only map are now permanent properties, not roadmap gaps. We map each frozen limit to the workload it breaks — and what owning your machines restores.
Heroku's Freeze, Six Months In: What 'Still Running' Costs and Where the Refugees Landed
Six months after Salesforce froze Heroku feature development, we price the cost of staying against Railway, Render, and Fly.io — and map where migrating teams actually landed.
Ingress-NGINX Is Retired — Your Gateway API Migration Can No Longer Wait
Ingress-nginx retired in March 2026 with no more security patches. A concrete migration map from Ingress annotations to Gateway, HTTPRoute, and GatewayClass — what ingress2gateway converts, what it skips, and where Gateway API v1.5 is genuinely better.
Managed Control Plane vs Free Panel vs Hosted PaaS: What Deploynix's $12 Middle Ground Really Costs
A three-service stack with Postgres and Redis runs about $6/month on a self-run Coolify panel, $18 with Deploynix's $12 managed control plane, and $38 on Render — until you price the pager hours. A worked cost-plus-failure-mode comparison across Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Deploynix, Render, and Railway.
The 2026 PaaS Pricing Shake-Up in One Ledger: Render, Heroku, Railway, Fly.io, and Hetzner Priced on the Same Workload
Render killed per-seat pricing, Heroku froze, Fly.io added billing lines, and Hetzner raised cloud prices up to 3x — one worked ledger prices the same web-plus-worker-plus-Postgres stack on all five vendors' September 2026 price lists, from ~$50 self-hosted to ~$122 on Railway.
Qovery Says the Hard Part of Agent Deploys Is Governance, Not Access — They're Right
Qovery's CEO says the hard part of letting AI agents deploy is governance, not access — RBAC, budget limits, and audit trails enforced server-side. Why that validates the self-hosted playbook, and why agent-run migration makes the destination's meter the only bill that matters.
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io vs a Flat Hetzner Box: The Cost Comparison Seenode's PaaS Framework Is Missing
Seenode's 2026 Heroku-alternatives framework maps Railway, Render, and Fly.io to workload shapes — but never prices them against flat owned hardware. Line-by-line math for one typical workload shows a Hetzner box at €8.49-57/month beating all three hosted bills, with the gap widening as egress grows.
Vercel Hobby Is Free Until Your Side Project Earns a Dollar
Vercel's Hobby tier stays free only until your project earns its first dollar — then the non-commercial clause pushes you to $20/seat Pro. A worked first-revenue-year comparison against a flat Hetzner box, plus when staying is still the right call.
Heroku vs Railway vs Render vs Fly.io: Read the Feature Matrix, Not the Price List (2026)
Heroku, Railway, Render, and Fly.io look interchangeable until you read the feature matrix: free-tier expiries, Postgres row caps, egress meters, and the operational rows that decide year two — plus which rows a self-hosted fleet beats on day one.