283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Render Will Pay You Up to $10K to Leave Railway: What Migration Credits Actually Cover
Render offers up to $10,000 in migration credits plus a migrate-from-Railway guide. A worked burn-down shows the credits buy years of compute but zero hours of engineering — plus the flat-hardware math that outlasts any credit.
Heroku Is Gone: We Re-Ran Encore's Exit Map With Real Bills for Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Hetzner
Encore's Heroku exit map points refugees at Render, Railway, Fly.io, and a VPS. A line-by-line re-audit prices the same stack on each — quiet month and traffic-spike month — and finds the meter shape matters more than the headline number.
Heroku Died but Its Buildpacks Run Everywhere: heroku/builder:26 on Cloud Run and the Builder Contract a Self-Hosted PaaS Owes
Heroku's platform is in sustaining mode, but heroku/builder:26 builds OCI images that run on Cloud Run and anywhere else. The four-piece builder contract behind it, and the checklist a self-hosted PaaS must honor so ex-Heroku apps build unchanged.
Heroku's Fir Can't Deploy Your Dockerfile: a Migration Playbook With Real Before-and-After Bills
Heroku's Fir generation can't deploy Docker images and Cedar entered sustaining mode in February 2026. A migration playbook for container teams: what breaks on Fir, how Render, Railway, and Fly.io handle Dockerfiles, and one typical stack priced five ways — $87 on Heroku, ~$35–60 hosted, ~$7 self-hosted.
Heroku Is in Sustaining Mode: When to Migrate and What Render, Railway, and Fly.io Really Cost
Heroku's February 2026 sustaining-mode announcement closed the door on new Enterprise contracts and froze new features. A timing framework for when to leave, a five-way cost table for the same workload on Heroku, Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Hetzner hardware, and where each alternative actually fits.
Ingress-NGINX Is Dead: Your Per-Route Migration Playbook Before the November 2026 Cliff
Ingress-nginx was archived in March 2026 and Azure ends managed NGINX patches in November 2026. A concrete migration plan: which annotations Traefik's drop-in provider covers, what must be hand-rewritten as HTTPRoute, and how to cut over one host at a time.
NGINX Is Back: Gateway Fabric vs Envoy vs Cilium for Your Self-Hosted PaaS
F5's March 2026 Kubernetes roadmap puts NGINX Gateway Fabric back in the ingress race just as ingress-nginx retires. A concrete three-way comparison with Envoy Gateway and Cilium, plus the decision guide for a Cluster API fleet routing every tenant domain through one gateway.
Railway Has No $0 Anymore: A Line-by-Line Cost Audit of the $5 Trial Credit vs. Self-Hosting on Hetzner
Railway's $5 trial credit is a one-time grant, not a tier. A worked line-by-line audit puts a web service, worker, and Postgres at ~$23-28/mo on Hobby versus ~EUR 4.49 flat on Hetzner — and explains why the missing $0 state matters more than the unit prices.
Azure Container Apps' Per-Second Meter vs a €4 Hetzner Box: Where Serverless Containers Win, and Where They Cost 8x
Azure Container Apps bills $0.000024 per vCPU-second with a free grant that makes spiky workloads genuinely free — but a steady app costs ~$34/mo against a ~€4 Hetzner CX23. A worked duty-cycle sweep, the breakeven at ~25% of the month, and why the Dedicated tier costs more, not less.