283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Railway Retires Config as Code on December 1: How to Design a Reversible PaaS Manifest Migration Instead of a Flag Day
Railway stops reading railway.json on December 1, 2026. Its converter-plus-plan migration is the template — and its gaps are the lesson — for versioning any PaaS deploy manifest without a flag day.
Render Killed the $19 Seat and Started Charging $0.15 per Gigabyte: The Team-Size Crossover Table
Render's 2026 migration swapped $19-per-member seats for a $25 flat Pro workspace and $0.15/GB bandwidth. A worked 2/10/30-person by 100GB/1TB/5TB table shows who wins — and the ~425GB line where a fixed Hetzner fleet costs less.
Coolify vs Dokku vs CapRover vs Ownkube: What the 2026 Shootout Gets Right — and What Breaks at Box Two
A September 2026 four-way comparison crowns a winner for every team size — but its real finding is that each panel breaks differently at the second machine. This read-through prices all four ceilings, including the vendor's own.
Heroku Is Gone: What the Railway-vs-Render Bill Split Really Costs in 2026
Encore's 2026 verdict sends ex-Heroku teams to Railway or Render. We repriced the same dyno workload on both — plus an owned Hetzner box — to show what the bill-predictability split actually costs.
Heroku Is in Sustaining Mode: What 'No New Features' Means for Your Migration Decision
Heroku's February 2026 sustaining-mode announcement froze its roadmap: no new features, no new Enterprise contracts. What the freeze covers, the five clocks that will force your hand, what a typical $130-165/month footprint costs on Render, Railway, Fly.io, or owned hardware, and a stay-plan-move decision framework.
Ingress-NGINX Is Retired: Your Gateway API Migration Playbook for the Rest of 2026
Ingress-nginx stopped receiving security patches in March 2026. A migration playbook for self-hosted teams: the five translation traps, which annotations survive the move to Gateway API, and a TLS cutover checklist.
Your Migrated App Still Asks Which PaaS It's On
Migrated apps keep sniffing for DYNO, RAILWAY_*, and FLY_APP_NAME long after they leave those platforms. The concrete inject list and do-not-fake list a Render-compatible self-hosted API must honor so tenants' health checks and telemetry keep telling the truth.
Netlify Killed Per-Seat Pricing and Doubled Bandwidth Meters: What Your App Actually Pays Now
Netlify traded $20-per-seat billing for unlimited seats and doubled usage meters. A credit-by-credit recompute of what traffic-heavy apps pay under the new rates — and the few-hundred-gigabyte crossover where owned hardware wins.
Railway's 18 Open Roles vs Fly.io's Zero: Why a PaaS Careers Page Is a Terrible Reliability Signal
In July 2026 Railway listed 18 open roles while coming off five major outages, and Fly.io listed zero while raising $25 million. A headcount-vs-incident-record reading of three PaaS vendors, plus a six-signal checklist for judging vendor health before you migrate.