1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
We're Leaving Kubernetes: What the Exit Posts Get Right About Small-Team Overhead, and What a PaaS Layer Answers
A fair accounting of the recurring 'we're leaving Kubernetes' posts: which small-team complaints survive scrutiny with real numbers, why most exits just rent someone else's Kubernetes-shaped API, and what a git-push PaaS layer answers.
The Managed Control-Plane Tax: Coolify $5 vs Dokploy $4.50/Server vs Deploynix $12 — and the Server Count Where the Meter Comes Back
Dokploy's $4.50 managed panel wins at one server, Coolify's $5 base wins at two through four, and Deploynix's flat $12 wins at five — a server-by-server fee accounting that names the count where each panel costs more than the Hetzner box it manages.
MCP Just Got Its Biggest Update Ever: What Stateless Servers Mean for Self-Hosting Deploy-from-Chat
The 2026-07-28 MCP spec killed sessions, sticky routing, and handshake affinity — September coverage calls it the biggest update since launch. For self-hosters, that means an infrastructure MCP server is now an ordinary HTTP service behind the same load balancer as everything else.
Five MCP Launches in Five Days — and the Deploy Surface Still Missing
Between September 14 and 18, Rubrik, Algolia, Google, ReleasePad, and the UN all shipped MCP servers — each with governance baked into the protocol layer. Deploy infrastructure is the surface still missing, and third-party servers are already defining it.
MCP Went Stateless: What the 2026-07-28 Spec Means for Long-Running Deploy Tools
MCP revision 2026-07-28 drops sessions, handshakes, and server-initiated requests. A migration map for deploy-from-chat servers whose minute-long tools must rebuild on Tasks, multi-round-trip confirmations, and an explicit task store.
Nobody Gives You Always-Awake for Free: September 2026's Paid Floor, From $2 Fly Machines to a $4 Hetzner Box
A September 2026 audit of every hosting free tier finds no always-awake compute for $0: the paid floor runs from $2 Fly machines to $5 Railway Hobby, with managed Postgres adding $5-6 — while a Hetzner box at roughly 4 euros a month holds the whole fleet.
Northflank Prices the Single-Box Decision: What a Price-Verified Dokploy-vs-Coolify Check Gets Right — and What Neither Panel Answers at Machine Two
Dokploy Cloud is cheaper at exactly one server; Coolify Cloud wins at every size above it — and neither panel provisions, heals, or autoscales machine two. A price-verified walkthrough of Northflank's September 2026 check plus the fleet gap both panels stop at.
OpenShip's 132K-View Launch: What Its Mail Server, One-Click Stacks, and MCP Bet Validate — and Where Docker+SSH Diverges From Kubernetes
OpenShip's July 2026 launch put a built-in mail server, one-click data stacks, and MCP agent ops on servers you own. The numbers behind each bet, and where Docker-over-SSH parts ways with Kubernetes.
Outhaul Is a Single-Binary Self-Hosted PaaS on SQLite: What a Deliberately Minimal Dokploy and Coolify Alternative Gets Right About the First Box, and Where It Stops
Outhaul packs push-to-deploy into a 22 MB Go binary and one SQLite file. A parts-count comparison with Dokploy and Coolify, plus what the move costs when one box stops being enough.