283 posts tagged with "Migration"
Migrating off hosted platforms like Render, Heroku, Railway, and Fly.io
Heroku's Data Layer Is the Hard Part of the Exit
Every Heroku exit guide prices the $50 dynos and waves at the add-ons — but sustaining mode froze the platform, not the Postgres EOL treadmill. A data-first playbook: what the freeze means for Postgres, Redis, and Kafka, size-tiered migration mechanics, and where the state lands.
Every Vendor Published a Heroku-Alternatives Ranking in 2026: How to Read a Competitor's Comparison Page Before You Migrate
Heroku's February 2026 sustaining-engineering announcement triggered a gold rush of vendor-authored rankings, each crowning its own author. A five-check audit card for reading competitor comparisons, applied live to three real pages, plus the flat-rate cost row none of them print.
Heroku's $50 and $250 Dynos Are Where the Math Flips: What One Dyno vs Five Really Costs
One Heroku dyno is $50 a month; five are $250 to $1,250 before the database. A worked one-vs-five comparison across Heroku, Render, and Fly.io at September 2026 prices, the flat-rate alternative for the same workloads, and the checklist that tells you when the math has flipped.
Still on Heroku? A Stay-or-Leave Framework for the Long Tail, From $5 Eco Dynos to $250 Performance-M
Salesforce gave Heroku no end-of-life date — only a sustaining-mode freeze. A cohort-by-cohort stay-or-leave framework from $5 Eco dynos to $250 Performance-M, keyed on dyno count, Postgres entanglement, and ops capacity.
One Changelog Line Killed Three PaaS Deploys: What the Kamal Receipt Proves — and Where It Stops
A Rails boilerplate's changelog replaced Fly.io, Render, and Heroku deploys with Kamal in one commit — nine files, one VPS invoice. Here is the itemized receipt: what one deploy.yml covers, what Kamal can't do, and where the move sits on the ladder to a declarative fleet.
OpenShip's 132K-View Launch: What Its Mail Server, One-Click Stacks, and MCP Bet Validate — and Where Docker+SSH Diverges From Kubernetes
OpenShip's July 2026 launch put a built-in mail server, one-click data stacks, and MCP agent ops on servers you own. The numbers behind each bet, and where Docker-over-SSH parts ways with Kubernetes.
Qovery's Heroku-Alternative Price Table, Recomputed: What Render, Railway, and Fly.io Really Cost for One Small App
Qovery dated every entry price in its September 2026 Heroku-alternatives comparison. This post recomputes the same small production stack on Render, Railway, Fly.io, and a flat Hetzner box, and shows where usage metering flips the ranking.
Hosted vs BYOC vs Self-Hosted: Price Your PaaS Exit in Three Columns
Qovery's September 2026 comparison prices hosted, BYOC, and self-hosted PaaS side by side from vendors' own pages. We turn it into an exit spreadsheet for one typical workload — hosted in the tens of dollars, a control-plane fee that dominates BYOC at small scale, flat hardware plus honest ops hours self-hosted — and map the scale points where the ranking flips.
One Developer, Many Side Projects, One Railway Bill: Where Per-Service Metering Loses to a Flat Hetzner Box
A real Railway bill for 16 idle resources anchors a worked N=1/5/10/50 cost comparison — metered vs fixed-floor vs one flat Hetzner box — with the sprawl crossover named per pricing philosophy.