283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Vercel Renamed the Meters Instead of Cutting Them: Four Pricing Revisions, One Unchanged Bill
Vercel renamed bandwidth to Fast Data Transfer and split serverless billing into Active CPU and Provisioned Memory across four pricing revisions — but the overage economics never moved. A line-by-line translation into real dollars, plus the flat-price self-hosted alternative.
Two PaaS Freezes, One Exit Plan: Where App Runner and Heroku Workloads Go Next
AWS closed App Runner to new customers and Heroku froze its roadmap twelve weeks apart — this side-by-side maps each stranded workload to its landing zone and lays out the ordered exit checklist, from portable builds to cutover with rollback.
Back4App Ranked 10 Heroku Replacements — Where Render, Railway, and Fly.io Actually Land
Back4App's February 2026 guide ranks ten Heroku replacements after sustaining mode froze the roadmap. Render takes the free tier and the Heroku-UX crown, Fly.io takes the always-on floor — and the same 4vCPU/8GB stack costs $20–60 a month hosted versus €4.35 on a flat Hetzner box.
Compliance Is the Moat: What Render's SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA Posture Really Costs to Rebuild on Hardware You Own
Render's SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA posture is the hardest part of Render to replace. A line-by-line accounting puts the first-year rebuild at $40,000–$85,000 — plus the one gap, the HIPAA BAA, that is a veto rather than a cost.
Django Heroku Exit 2026: Appliku vs Railway vs Render Priced for a Real Stack
Heroku's sustaining-mode announcement turned every Django team's exit plan into a roadmap item. A worked price comparison of Appliku, Railway, and Render on a real web-plus-Postgres-plus-worker stack — plus the flat-Hetzner baseline and the Django migration checklist.
Egress Is the Bill: Where Fly.io's $0.02/GB, Railway's $0.05/GB, and the $0.04 APAC Rate Overtake Compute
A worked crossover sheet prices the same scale-tier stack on Fly.io, Railway, Render, and Hetzner: Render's egress passes compute at ~2.8 TB/month, Railway at ~6.5 TB, Fly.io at 10 TB in NA/EU but 5 TB in APAC — while the flat Hetzner box stays at $0.
Fly.io's Fee Layers, Itemized: The Real Bill Behind the $2.02 Machine
A bottom-up rebuild of what a small Fly.io app really costs — $8.54 to $10.56, not $2.02 — once IPs, bandwidth, volumes, and certs are counted, plus the $5 flat number for the same footprint on owned hardware.
From Fly.io to Hetzner in a Weekend: A Migration Playbook That Cuts the Bill 70%
A line-by-line playbook for moving a three-region Fly.io app to a Cluster-API-managed Hetzner fleet: what replaces each Fly primitive, a Friday-to-Sunday runbook, and a monthly bill comparison showing the total falling from 108 to 31 dollars.
Gardener Proposed Traefik as Its ingress-nginx Replacement: What the Emerging Consensus Means for Your Fleet's Edge
Gardener's GEP-57 proposes Traefik as the successor to its retired nginx-ingress addon, joining RKE2 and K3s in a drop-in consensus. What that convergence means for a self-hosted fleet deciding between Traefik now and Gateway API later — plus the caveats Gardener states plainly.