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Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io

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Netlify vs Vercel in 2026: Where the Pricing Actually Crosses Over (and What Self-Hosting Costs Instead)
·Dora Noda·9 min

Netlify vs Vercel in 2026: Where the Pricing Actually Crosses Over (and What Self-Hosting Costs Instead)

Netlify charges a flat $20 while Vercel charges $20 per seat — but Vercel includes 1 TB of bandwidth against Netlify's ~150 GB. A worked 2026 crossover table for 1–20 person teams, plus what the same traffic costs on a flat-rate owned server.

PaaS
cost-optimization
self-hosting
migration
That $5–10 Hetzner + Coolify Next.js Stack: A Line-by-Line Recompute Against Vercel, Railway, and Fly.io
·Dora Noda·12 min

That $5–10 Hetzner + Coolify Next.js Stack: A Line-by-Line Recompute Against Vercel, Railway, and Fly.io

A Next.js full-stack on Hetzner + Coolify for $5.50/month against $30–$80 on Vercel, Railway, and Fly.io at 2026 list rates — recomputed line by line, with the bandwidth sensitivity table and the ops overhead the flat price leaves out.

PaaS
cost-optimization
self-hosting
migration
Every Heroku Exit Guide Crowns Its Author: What Puter's Top-5 Left Out
·Dora Noda·9 min

Every Heroku Exit Guide Crowns Its Author: What Puter's Top-5 Left Out

Puter's 2026 Heroku-alternatives guide ranks itself first and leaves Railway, Fly.io, and the self-hosted row off the page. A claim-by-claim check of what holds up, plus the cost table the guide never prices.

PaaS
migration
cost-optimization
self-hosting
Don't Trust It With Production Data Yet: The 2026 Managed-Postgres Gap Across Railway, Render, and Fly.io
·Dora Noda·11 min

Don't Trust It With Production Data Yet: The 2026 Managed-Postgres Gap Across Railway, Render, and Fly.io

Railway's one-click HA Postgres still carries a don't-trust-production-data warning, Render's PITR-backed managed Postgres stands alone, and Fly.io stays deliberately unmanaged — a like-for-like feature and cost scoreboard for teams leaving Heroku, plus the five-row checklist a self-hosted database must clear.

PaaS
migration
self-hosting
cost-optimization
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Line-by-Line Bill for the Same Node.js + Postgres App
·Dora Noda·9 min

Railway vs Render vs Fly.io vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Line-by-Line Bill for the Same Node.js + Postgres App

A line-by-line recompute of the same Node.js + Postgres bill on Railway, Render, Fly.io, and a flat-rate Hetzner box — plus the egress, geography, and idle-workload sensitivity that decides which metering shape actually wins.

PaaS
cost-optimization
migration
self-hosting
Render's New Memory-Optimized Plans Repriced: A Steady Web Service Bill vs a Fixed Hetzner Node
·Dora Noda·12 min

Render's New Memory-Optimized Plans Repriced: A Steady Web Service Bill vs a Fixed Hetzner Node

Render's August 26 compute-plan overhaul added 15+ memory-optimized tiers without touching legacy prices. A line-by-line reprice of a steady $79 web-service stack, the RAM-heavy workloads that got $25–$100/month cheaper, and the $10 fixed-node counterfactual.

PaaS
cost-optimization
migration
self-hosting
Render Killed Per-Seat Pricing: A Worked Five-Person Bill for Railway vs Render vs a $19 Hetzner Box
·Dora Noda·9 min

Render Killed Per-Seat Pricing: A Worked Five-Person Bill for Railway vs Render vs a $19 Hetzner Box

Render's April 2026 restructure ended per-seat billing, so seats cost $0 on both Railway and Render. A line-by-line bill for a five-engineer staging-plus-production setup on each, plus the $19 self-hosted counterfactual.

PaaS
cost-optimization
migration
self-hosting
Salesforce Closed Both Deploy Doors: The Complete Exit Map for Functions and Heroku Teams
·Dora Noda·12 min

Salesforce Closed Both Deploy Doors: The Complete Exit Map for Functions and Heroku Teams

Salesforce Functions went end-of-life in January 2025 and Heroku froze new development in February 2026. One table maps every stranded workload — Functions code, dynos, Postgres, Redis, add-ons — to its destination, with the data-first sequence that avoids migrating twice.

migration
PaaS
self-hosting
infrastructure
Suga Ranked 7 Heroku Alternatives for Docker Workloads — I Recomputed the Bill on One Reference Stack
·Dora Noda·9 min

Suga Ranked 7 Heroku Alternatives for Docker Workloads — I Recomputed the Bill on One Reference Stack

Suga's price-verified ranking compares seven Heroku alternatives for Docker workloads. We reprice the same reference stack on all seven plus owned hardware — and find egress is the line item that decides it.

PaaS
migration
cost-optimization
self-hosting
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