1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Hetzner's Cheap Tier Is Unavailable: What the Missing €5.99 Server Means for Fleet Planning
Hetzner's entire Cost-Optimized tier shows unavailable with no new price announcement — the cheapest orderable 4 GB server costs 3.34x the listed €5.99. A fleet-planning runbook for pinning SKUs, remodeling cost on orderable capacity, and treating availability as a monitored variable.
One 8-vCPU Cloud VM Now Costs More Than a 24-Core Bare-Metal Server: Hetzner's EX130 and the Post-Repricing Fleet Node Map
Hetzner's €134 EX130 dedicated server packs 24 cores and 256 GB of ECC DDR5 for less than one 8-vCPU cloud VM — a worked per-core and per-GB comparison, which Cluster API fleet pools move to buy-new metal, and where cloud elasticity still wins.
Hetzner Changed Two Numbers Your Fleet Depends On: LB Idle Timeout and Assigned-IP Deletion
Hetzner Cloud made LB HTTP idle timeouts tunable (30–300s, up from a fixed 50s) and banned deleting assigned IPs. What both changes mean for ingress tuning and IP-failover runbooks on a self-hosted fleet.
HPA Scales to Zero Now. Should Your Fleet Retire KEDA or Knative?
Kubernetes 1.37 graduates HPA scale-to-zero to beta and turns it on by default. Queue workers can consolidate onto the native primitive — but HTTP services still need Knative's request buffering and event-diverse fleets still need KEDA's scaler catalog. Here is the per-workload decision.
Your Hoster Now Pays for Your Panel: What is*hosting's Coolify Sponsorship Changes — and Where the One-Click VPS Still Stops
is*hosting became an official Coolify sponsor and shipped a pre-installed Coolify VPS image from $10.19/month. The money math of a hoster funding the panel it distributes — and why the bundle still stops at box number two.
One Changelog Line Killed Three PaaS Deploys: What the Kamal Receipt Proves — and Where It Stops
A Rails boilerplate's changelog replaced Fly.io, Render, and Heroku deploys with Kamal in one commit — nine files, one VPS invoice. Here is the itemized receipt: what one deploy.yml covers, what Kamal can't do, and where the move sits on the ladder to a declarative fleet.
Your Build Cache Is Invisible to Kubelet: Sizing Image GC So Tenant Builds Stop Evicting Tenant Pods
Tenant builds fill shared nodes with cache that kubelet image GC can never reclaim — until DiskPressure evicts running pods. A measured method for budgeting per-node disk, with a worked 80GB example and copy-paste kubelet plus BuildKit configs.
66% Run AI Inference on Kubernetes, 7% Deploy Daily: The Golden Path to an AI-Ready PaaS
CNCF survey data shows 66% of organizations run AI inference on Kubernetes while only 7% deploy models daily. Four mechanisms — versioned model artifacts, DRA accelerator requests, eval-gated promotion, and correlated inference telemetry — close the gap between running a model and shipping one.
One Scheduler Per Cluster Isn't a Fleet Strategy: How KubeStellar, Cluster API, and Hive Split the Multi-Cluster Job
kube-scheduler goes blind the day you add a second cluster. How Cluster API provisioning, KubeStellar placement policy, and hive agent orchestration split the multi-cluster job — and when placement belongs in your platform versus tenant BYO.