1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Where to Host Your Web App in Late 2026: The Indie Decision Tree, Plus the Self-Hosted Option It Omits
Flavio Copes re-checked every hosting price in September 2026 — Hetzner up 37.5%, Netlify free capped at 20 deploys, Vercel flat-rate bandwidth. A row-by-row read of the indie decision tree, plus the self-hosted PaaS row the guide omits.
Heroku Is Frozen, the Guide Says Fly.io: What 'Regions Plus a Great CLI' Costs on Rented VMs vs. Two Hetzner Boxes
FlightFormation's October 2026 guide steers teams off frozen Heroku toward Fly.io's regional VMs and excellent CLI: a three-way priced teardown of the same two-region reference stack on Heroku, Fly.io, and owned Hetzner hardware, with the Postgres, egress, and region-count sensitivities that decide between per-unit meters and flat boxes.
Your Secret Scanner's CI Broke Overnight: Gitleaks' Org License Gate, Porsche's TruffleHog Swap, and What a Git-Push Pipeline Should Standardize On
Gitleaks' GitHub Action now fails org repos without a license key while the CLI stays MIT. Compare the three fixes — license, vendored CLI, or TruffleHog verified mode — with Porsche's ADR-0011 as the worked case study and a pinned baseline for git-push build pipelines.
Render Sleeps, Fly Meters, Railway Floors: One Repo's HOSTING.md as a PaaS Decision Record
OurHike's HOSTING.md priced one backend on Render, Fly.io, and Railway — then reversed itself when its premise expired. A worked read with refreshed October 2026 prices, a floor-vs-meter breakeven, and the missing marginal-cost row for owned hardware.
Kubernetes Rewrote Its Image Promoter and Deleted 20% of It: A 7-Phase Registry Lesson for Self-Hosted PaaS
Kubernetes rewrote kpromo, its registry.k8s.io image promoter, deleting 20% of the code while cutting plan time from 20 minutes to 2 and signature replication from 17 hours to 15 minutes. A close read of the 7-phase pipeline — and what a self-hosted PaaS should copy and skip.
Railway Won the Default for Small Projects in 2026 — Here Are the Edge Cases That Push Growing Teams Off It
Railway won the small-project default with metered pricing, the fastest deploys, and a $5 trial. This inventory names the five edge cases that push growing teams off it — always-on billing, preview costs, ephemeral storage, containerized Postgres, per-seat teams — and works the bill-size threshold where a fixed box wins.
Railway Killed Prepaid Billing. That's Your Migration-Timing Signal.
Railway now requires a post-paid card, ending prepaid credits. A prepaid balance is lock-in; post-paid is month-to-month exit freedom — plus a 5-check migration-timing checklist and a cost anchor for the same workload.
Render Cut Median Builds 40% to 21 Seconds — Can Owned Hardware Match It?
Render cut median service builds from 38 to 21 seconds on faster build nodes. This guide splits the headline into cold/warm and queue/execution cells, cites published 12–15 second warm builds on persistent builders, and prices an owned Hetzner build pool at €97.30/month — with the exact protocol to verify every cell.
30MB vs 800MB: What Rivetr's Single-Binary PaaS Teaches About the Self-Hosted Control-Plane Floor
Rivetr runs a complete self-hosted PaaS control plane in ~30MB of RAM against Coolify's ~800MB stack: an apples-to-apples teardown of what the gap measures, where the 30MB floor comes from, and why footprint is the tiebreaker and fleet lifecycle the decision.