283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Fly.io's September Report Card: What a 6-to-12-Month Credit Runway Buys Before the Edge-vs-PaaS Bill Comes Due
SaaSOffers' September 2026 Fly.io review prices $500 in startup credits at a 6-to-12-month runway and calls the PaaS choice three ways: Render for simplicity, Railway for deploy velocity, Fly.io for global edge. The worked monthly math behind each claim, when the edge earns its keep, and what the bill looks like after the credits run out.
From $3K Kubernetes to $200 Fly.io: What a Six-Month Reverse-Migration Receipt Actually Proves
A small team moved from self-run Kubernetes at $3,000 a month to Fly.io at $200, with six months of outage history to show for it. The line-by-line ledger, where the $200 breaks, and a six-point checklist for trusting any migration receipt.
Gateway API 1.6 Puts v1alpha2 Routes on Death Row and Moves Experiments to x-k8s.io: A Migration Guide
Gateway API 1.6 graduates TCPRoute and UDPRoute to v1, deprecates v1alpha2, and moves experiments to x-k8s.io — with one controller already broken today and TLSRoute showing what happens to stragglers. A six-step runbook for fleets still on the old channel.
Heroku Is Gone: Where Ex-Heroku Workloads Landed in 2026 and How to Pick Your Last Migration
Heroku entered maintenance mode in February 2026. One reference app priced on Railway, Render, Fly.io, and a self-hosted box at two usage levels, plus a decision tree keyed on dyno count, Postgres entanglement, and ops capacity.
Railway's $100M Bet: What Per-Second Pricing Really Costs When the Container Never Sleeps
Railway raised $100M to challenge AWS, but the same always-on API, worker, and Postgres costs ~$148/month on its per-second meter versus ~$20 on flat Hetzner boxes — and the '50% under hyperscalers' claim inverts against an actual AWS baseline. A worked three-way recompute plus the three-hour rule for when the meter wins.
Railway's One-Click Postgres Upgrades Land as Postgres 14's Clock Runs Out: the Button, the CNPG Runbook, and the 6x Cost Gap
Railway's September 11 one-click Postgres major-upgrade button, mapped click-by-click to its CloudNativePG equivalent: what the preflight, backups, and revert banner replace, a six-step runbook for doing it on owned hardware, and the 6x meter-vs-flat cost gap at two sizes.
One Team Picked Railway + SQLite Over Heroku Postgres: The $5 vs $12 Database Math Small Apps Get Wrong
A real ADR priced five ways to host a small SQLite app: Railway plus volume at ~$5/mo beat Heroku plus Postgres at $10-12/mo with zero code changes. A line-by-line recompute of each option, what Litestream plus S3 buys for pennies, and when SQLite stops being honest.
Railway Has SSH Now. It's Still Not Your Server
Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Heroku all offer shell access to workloads now — but a PaaS shell ends where the container ends. A dimension-by-dimension comparison plus the four debugging workflows that only exist on a machine you own.
The Free Tier Is Almost Dead: What 5 Side Projects Cost Now on Render, Railway, Fly.io, and One Hetzner Box
Render is the last holdout with a genuinely free compute tier — but its free Postgres expires after 30 days. A line-by-line repricing of five web-plus-Postgres side projects across Render, Railway, Fly.io, and a flat-rate Hetzner box, and the exact threshold where free stops being free.