1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Your Tenant Asked for a Full VM: the KubeVirt-vs-VM-API Decision Table for a Containers-First Fleet
A tenant wants a full VM on your containers-first fleet. This decision table maps five real VM requests to KubeVirt, VM API, CAPI infra providers, or outsourcing — with what Broadcom's CNCF Sandbox VM API changes and the four conditions that would make VMs a first-class deploy target.
Before You Sell Hosting on It: Dokploy's Source-Available License vs Coolify's Apache 2.0
Dokploy gates SSO, whitelabeling, and audit logs behind a commercial agreement while Coolify stays fully Apache 2.0 — a buyer-by-buyer verdict on which self-hosted PaaS an agency can legally build managed client hosting on.
Which 'Free' Hosting Tier Actually Survives 12 Months? Testing the 100-Platform Free-Tier Guide
A 12-month survival test of the free tiers in a 150-platform hosting guide: which of Vercel, Netlify, Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Coolify keep a small deploy live for free, and what each fallback really costs per year.
Three 'Top 10 Heroku Alternatives' Guides, Three Self-Crowned Winners: A Line-by-Line Migration Reprice
Three vendor 'Top 10 Heroku alternatives' guides each rank their author first. A starter API-plus-worker-plus-Postgres stack repriced line by line on Railway, Render, Fly.io, frozen Heroku, and a Hetzner box — plus the re-weighting demo that proves rankings are ads and rubrics are tools.
KubeCon NA 2026 Preview: VM API, VMware's Cluster API Bet, and a Self-Hosted Fleet Watch List
KubeCon NA 2026 runs November 9–12 in Salt Lake City — a self-hosted fleet operator's watch list with the VM API verdict, VMware's Cluster API bet, sessions worth attending, and three actions for the Monday after.
MCP Pays for Itself at Three Systems — So Scope Your Deploy Server Like a Guest
An October 2026 MCP audit says the protocol pays for itself at three connected systems and charges interest past thirty tools. A worked token budget for a twelve-tool deploy server, and where every-endpoint-agent-callable becomes breakage.
Portainer 3.0 Ends the Community Edition: Dockge vs Komodo vs Arcane as the Docker-Only Replacement
Portainer 3.0 ships with no Community Edition build, freezing CE on 2.x — a concrete comparison of Dockge, Komodo, Arcane, Coolify, and Dokploy on compose stacks, multi-host, and auth, plus why foundation-owned tooling is the structural defense.
Preview Environments Compared: What Railway's Auto-Delete, Render's Full Copies, and Fly.io's DIY Wiring Each Cost a Team Shipping Daily
Railway, Render, and Fly.io bill the same 40 preview-days a month at wildly different totals — a per-PR ledger for one web-plus-worker-plus-Postgres stack, the stale-preview, per-PR-database, and CI-glue line items beyond compute, and the ephemeral-namespace default a self-hosted platform should run instead.
Governed Tools vs. Raw API Keys: What Qovery's MCP Server Gets Right, and Where Raw API Still Wins
Qovery's MCP server gives AI agents narrow deploy and read-logs tools instead of broad API keys — but a tool catalog costs tokens, accuracy, and maintenance. A decision framework for when governed tools win, when raw API plus prompt wins, and the promotion rule for deploy-from-chat.