1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
From Fly.io to Hetzner in a Weekend: A Migration Playbook That Cuts the Bill 70%
A line-by-line playbook for moving a three-region Fly.io app to a Cluster-API-managed Hetzner fleet: what replaces each Fly primitive, a Friday-to-Sunday runbook, and a monthly bill comparison showing the total falling from 108 to 31 dollars.
Nobody Gives You Always-Awake for Free Anymore: Hobby-App Math on a €5 Hetzner Box
Nobody offers an always-awake app for free in September 2026 — the floor runs $2–7 per app plus $5–6 for Postgres. A worked comparison puts three hobby apps at $11–27 a month on entry meters versus ~€5 consolidated on one Hetzner box.
Gardener Proposed Traefik as Its ingress-nginx Replacement: What the Emerging Consensus Means for Your Fleet's Edge
Gardener's GEP-57 proposes Traefik as the successor to its retired nginx-ingress addon, joining RKE2 and K3s in a drop-in consensus. What that convergence means for a self-hosted fleet deciding between Traefik now and Gateway API later — plus the caveats Gardener states plainly.
Gateway API v1.5 Makes TLSRoute and Gateway mTLS Stable: What Your Self-Hosted PaaS Gets for Free
Gateway API v1.5 promotes TLSRoute and Gateway-level mTLS to stable. What SNI passthrough and client-cert validation mean for a self-hosted PaaS, plus the v1alpha2 upgrade trap and the cert-manager gaps to watch.
Google Just Normalized the Governed Agent Endpoint: What Its Home and UN Data Commons MCP Servers Mean for Your Self-Hosted PaaS Roadmap
Google shipped first-party MCP servers for Home and UN data in a single week. Here is the six-part governance bar they normalized, and what it demands from any self-hosted platform shipping an agent endpoint.
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.