1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Kubernetes 1.36 Schedules Whole Workloads, Not Pods: Bin-Packing Tenant Apps on Fixed Hardware
Kubernetes 1.36's PodGroup scheduling cycle binds whole workload gangs atomically, but tenant Deployments see almost no change yet. A worked 3-node scenario shows what moves, what doesn't, and where Kueue still wins.
The Single-Box Ceiling, Priced: What a Second Server Costs on Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, and EasyPanel
Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover charge $0 for a second server — EasyPanel's per-server Business tier adds about $910/year on identical hardware. A priced 12-month comparison of the multi-server ceiling, plus what the same box costs on a Cluster API fleet.
Vercel Made Blocked Traffic Free — Here's What That Costs to Build Yourself
Vercel's May 2026 Firewall change made WAF-blocked traffic free on every plan — this post prices each layer of that bundle for a self-hosted fleet and gives the five-item checklist a PaaS control plane must ship to match it.
Stripe's Agentic Provisioning Protocol Puts Railway One CLI Command Away — and Draws the Line Where MCP Stops
Stripe's Agentic Provisioning Protocol takes agents from nothing to a running Railway resource — account, $5 trial, credentials, Postgres — in one CLI flow MCP cannot express. How discovery, authorization, and tokenized payment work under the hood, and a seven-item checklist for the self-hosted equivalent.
k3s vs Kubernetes vs MicroK8s: the 4x RAM Gap Is Real — and Where a Lightweight Distro Stops Being a Fleet
k3s agents run in 512 MB against a kubeadm worker's 2 GB — a real 4x gap on full upstream Kubernetes. What that buys on a €4 Hetzner box, the one-way doors waiting at machine two, and the on-call moment when Cluster API takes over.
Who Resolves Your Subdomain When One DNS Node Dies? Technitium Clustering vs Pi-hole HA, Compared Honestly
Technitium's built-in DNS clustering and the community pihole-ha add-on solve the same outage — one dead DNS node — from opposite directions. A concrete side-by-side on sync models, failover times, DHCP, and DNSSEC, plus which one fits a self-hosted PaaS's public wildcard path.
Four 2026 Heroku-Alternative Rankings, Four Different Winners: The Disagreement Is the Data
Back4App, thesoftwarescout, techsy.io, and SaaSOffers each crowned a different Heroku alternative in 2026. A meta-read of why the winners disagree — the seats, egress, and free-tier criteria that move the crown — against the flat Hetzner box that anchors every bill.
One Heroku Calculator, Three Different Winners — and What Happens When Self-Hosted Is the Fourth Option
A 2026 Heroku cost calculator crowns a different winner per priority — Railway on cost, Render on simplicity, Fly.io on speed — and rerunning the same workload with a $50 flat-rate box as the fourth option puts the honest crossover at 1–2.5x the reference traffic, depending on how you price ops time.
Three Vendors Pitched You a Heroku Exit in 2026. Here's What All Three Guides Left Out.
Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Cloud66 each published a Heroku exit guide after the February 2026 sustaining-mode announcement: a totaled reference bill (147 USD/mo) against all three landings, the egress sensitivity math that flips the ranking, and the meters, mappings, and labor the guides omit.