283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Vercel's Spending Cap Doesn't Cap Your Spending: The Bandwidth Math Behind $23K Bills
Vercel's Spend Management feature can pause a runaway bill, but it's opt-in, checks usage every few minutes instead of continuously, and shuts down all of production instead of capping the overage — here's the real per-GB, per-CPU-hour math and what a fixed-cost server costs instead.
Fly.io Quietly Metered Three More Things in 2026 — Here's What It Actually Costs Your Indie SaaS
In a single quarter, Fly.io started billing for volume snapshots, app-scoped egress IPs, and inter-region private networking. None of the three is large alone. Here's the line-by-line before/after for a real two-region indie stack, and what the same topology costs self-hosted.
Heroku Enters Sustaining-Engineering Mode: The Buildpack Survives, Here's What It Costs to Leave
Heroku's February 2026 shift to bug-fixes-only maintenance doesn't kill the buildpack workflow it invented — here's what actually stops, and a real dollar-for-dollar comparison of running the same dyno formation on self-hosted hardware instead.
Render Cut Included Egress 20x: The Real Bill to Self-Host the Same App on a Hetzner Box
Render's April 2026 repricing cut included egress to 25 GB on Pro and meters the rest at $0.15/GB. Here's the line-by-line bill for a web + worker + Postgres stack versus the same containers on a €8.49 Hetzner box, swept from 25 GB to 2 TB of traffic.