1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
SNCF Ships Its Cluster API Providers as OCI Artifacts: What an ORAS-Based Provider Supply Chain Buys a Self-Hosted Fleet
SNCF manages its Cluster API providers as versioned OCI artifacts via ORAS instead of pulling YAML from GitHub releases. How the pattern works mechanically, how it compares to clusterctl's documented air-gap paths, and when a small Hetzner fleet should copy it.
One ClusterProfile vs One Flux per Cluster: What Sveltos v1.13 Changes About Fleet Add-On Delivery
Sveltos delivers fleet add-ons from one management cluster to auto-discovered Cluster API clusters, replacing one Flux installation per workload cluster. A concrete before/after comparison — targeting, rollouts, drift, dry runs — plus what v1.13's Helm-update visibility adds and where Sveltos stops.
That $3,000-to-$200 Kubernetes-to-Fly.io Migration Story, Audited Line by Line
A $3,000 Kubernetes bill becomes $200 on Fly.io — until you price the snapshots, regional markups, and duty-cycle assumptions the headline skips. A line-by-line audit with the owned-hardware row neither side mentions.
The Self-Hosted PaaS Cambrian Explosion: What 55 awesome-paas Entries Say About the Second-Server Problem
The awesome-paas list now tracks 55 self-hosted platforms, and nearly all of them share one ceiling: they manage the server you built by hand. A look at what breaks at server number two — and the declarative alternative.
76% Cheaper, 3.6x the vCPUs: A Line-Item Read of an AWS+DigitalOcean-to-Hetzner Migration Bill
Digital Society cut its cloud bill 76% — $559.36 to $132.96 a month — while tripling capacity by moving from AWS and DigitalOcean to Hetzner ARM servers running Talos Linux. A line-item audit of where the savings came from, what they still rent, and the break-even math for your own team.
BYOC After Heroku Sustain Mode: What AZIN, Porter, Flightcontrol, and Northflank Really Cost Versus Owning the Whole PaaS
Heroku is in sustain mode and BYOC promises the safe middle: PaaS deploys with workloads in your own cloud account. A priced comparison of AZIN, Porter, Flightcontrol, and Northflank against shared PaaS and a Hetzner box, plus the vendor dependency the middle keeps.
The Deploy Exists Before the Account Does: What Cloudflare Drop's 60-Minute Anonymous Preview Means for Git-Push PaaS Onboarding
Cloudflare Drop inverts PaaS onboarding: drag a folder into the browser, get a live URL for 60 minutes, and only sign up if you claim it. Here is the four-part blueprint for bringing signup-last deploys to a git-push platform — and the state boundary where the pattern breaks.
Coolify and Dokploy Are 'Not Designed for AI Agent Auto Deploy': What the HN Verdict Gets Right 6 Months Later
Six months after Hacker News declared Coolify and Dokploy 'not designed for AI agent auto deploy,' we score both tools against MCP-first rivals on six agent-operability dimensions — and show what it actually takes to hand the 2am rollback to an agent.
52,000 Stars for Coolify, 32,000 for Dokploy, 15,000 for CapRover: What Star Velocity Says About the Self-Hosted PaaS Market in 2026
Coolify adds roughly a thousand GitHub stars a week, Dokploy has nearly doubled to 36,000, and CapRover sits flat near 15,000. What star velocity plus release pace reveal about consolidation in the single-box PaaS market — and the second-machine ceiling the winner shares with everyone else.