283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Cilium 1.20 Puts Tenant Auth in the CNI: What ExternalAuth Means for Fleets Still on ingress-nginx
Cilium 1.20 adds the ExternalAuth filter to Gateway API, moving per-route authorization into the CNI you already run. A before/after of tenant auth on ingress-nginx versus HTTPRoute filters, plus an itemized migration bill for fleets facing the retired controller.
Dokku Is Still Here After a Decade of Panel Waves: What the Original Single-Box PaaS Says About Coolify's 58K Stars and the Second-Machine Moment
Dokku has shipped since 2013 while Coolify passed 58,000 stars and Dokploy hit 35K — all solving the same first machine. Where single-box tools plateau, and how to graduate to a declarative fleet without a replatform.
Equinix Metal Is Dead: Where API-Driven Bare Metal Goes Next, and What the Shutdown Teaches About Provisioning Lock-In
Equinix Metal shut down June 30, 2026, ending the $335M Packet bet. A shutdown-timeline table, a five-door migration map with per-destination network and Cluster API stories, and why a provider API belongs behind an abstraction.
Fly.io's $0.08/GB Snapshot Bill: The Backup Line Item Your Self-Hosting Math Forgot
Fly.io started charging $0.08/GB for volume snapshots in January 2026. A line-item breakdown of what the backup dimension costs for a typical web-plus-Postgres stack, and how it compares to the same retention on owned disks.
Heroku to AWS in One Command: What Agent-Driven Migration Gets Right — and the Self-Hosted Exit It Skips
Qovery's September 24 webinar promises Heroku-to-AWS migration in one command with an agent doing the work. Here is what agent-driven playbooks automate well, what still needs a human, and why the self-hosted exit never makes the slide deck — plus the three-way cost math.
Heroku to Linode + Kamal in Production: A Real Team's Terraform-Retiring Migration, Step by Step
A production Rails site left Heroku for Linode plus Kamal in three days across four tracked issues, ending with the Heroku provider deleted from Terraform. This walkthrough covers each cutover step, the before/after bill, and what the team's no-fallback decision costs the week DNS flips.
Netlify's Credit-Based Billing, One Year Later: What Metered Credits Actually Cost Teams
One year after Netlify replaced seat pricing with metered credits, we run the numbers: a worked before/after bill comparison, the spike-month volatility problem, and how flat-rate self-hosted hardware compares.
OpenShip Puts Your Mail Server, Postgres, and Deploy Pipeline on One Box — Here's What the Bundle Really Costs
OpenShip bundles git-push deploys, Postgres, and a mail server onto one VPS you own. We price the bundle against managed Postgres and email APIs at three volumes — and tally the operational half of the ledger: backups, upgrades, and one shared blast radius.
Railway Runs 100% on Bare Metal Now: What Halved Egress Prices Reveal About the PaaS Business Model
Railway moved 100% of workloads onto servers it owns and cut egress 50% and storage 40%. A three-way price comparison against AWS and Hetzner shows what the PaaS business model looks like when the margin comes from metal, not markup.