283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Railway's $10/GB Overage Math: The Exact Headroom Point Where One Hetzner Box Wins
Railway's rate card works out to about $10 per GB of RAM and $20 per vCPU each month. A line-by-line recompute puts a modest API-plus-worker-plus-database app near $147 a month — and pins the exact footprint where one Hetzner box becomes the cheaper default.
Railway's One-Click Redis HA, Priced: What Sentinel-Plus-HAProxy Costs Against Self-Hosted Valkey
Railway's one-click Redis HA converts a standalone service into a Sentinel-plus-HAProxy cluster at roughly $55-80/month metered for a small 3-node setup, against about $18 on owned Hetzner nodes running Valkey. A line-by-line accounting of the failover bundle, its conversion gotchas, and the ops work the meter buys you out of.
RAM Up 6x, Cloud Bills Up 87 Percent: Where Owning the Box Still Beats Renting the Gigabyte
OVHcloud warned of 87 percent price hikes as memory costs ran 6x toward 12x. A provider-by-provider tally of 2026's repricing wave, the euros-per-gigabyte math that puts breakeven near 8 GB on performance tiers and 32 GB on shared lines, and what to lock in before the next hike.
Render vs Railway vs Fly.io, Recomputed on Hardware You Own
ExpressTech priced the same Node-plus-Postgres app on Render, Railway, and Fly.io and found a 5x spread. Recomputing every line item against owned Hetzner hardware: a €4 cloud VM runs it for ~$5/month, a €46 dedicated box wins past six apps, and hosted still takes the bursty and zero-ops cases.
The Reverse Migration: Why Teams Quit Self-Hosting and Go Back to Managed PaaS
For every Heroku-to-Hetzner victory lap, a team quietly moves back to Render or Railway at four times the infrastructure cost. A catalog of the five failure modes behind the reverse migration — unpatched CVEs, untested backups, 2 a.m. pages, the single-node ceiling, bus factor of one — and the six-item checklist that keeps self-hosting alive.
Vercel's Migration Tax Isn't the Hosting Bill — It's Edge Config, ISR, and the AI Gateway
Leaving Vercel means rebuilding three primitives with no drop-in equivalent: Edge Config's no-redeploy flag reads, ISR's shared-cache invalidation, and the AI Gateway's routing and budgets. A primitive-by-primitive inventory of what each rebuild actually costs on infrastructure you own.
Where Post-Railway Workloads Land: Six Destinations and the Hetzner Math
Six completed 2026 migrations off Railway landed on Render, DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure, Hetzner, and Coolify. A destination-by-destination account of what each exit buys and re-buys, plus the missing cost math: a $128/month metered footprint fits many times over on a €44 dedicated box.
Gateway API v1.5 Went All-In on Stable: Your Ingress-to-Gateway Migration Checklist for a Self-Hosted Fleet
With ingress-nginx past end of life and Gateway API v1.5 promoting six features to Standard, migrating off Ingress is now a scheduled project. A worked conversion, a manual-pass checklist, and a cutover runbook for small self-hosted fleets.
Heroku Alternatives in 2026: Auditing the Render vs Railway vs Fly.io Rankings, Priced to the Dollar
Render, Railway, and Fly.io top every Heroku-alternatives ranking in 2026. This audit stress-tests each platform's claims against a real Heroku exit and prices the same workload four ways, including a flat-rate Hetzner baseline.