1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Your PaaS Bill Is a Discovery Process, Not a Plan
Vercel repriced four times since 2024 and Fly.io added new billing line items in 2026. A priced quiet-month vs viral-month comparison shows why the metered invoice arrives as a discovery process — and why a fixed-cost box wins on predictability, not just price.
Anthropic Split the Agent's Brain From Its Hands: Why Infrastructure Is Now the Bottleneck
Anthropic's Managed Agents architecture splits every agent into a stateless brain, disposable sandbox hands, and a durable session log — and the hands are yours to own. A concrete mapping of who runs what, the per-second cost math of managed sandboxes versus owned machines, and the five-item checklist a real execution layer must satisfy.
Two-Thirds of Platform Teams Run Backstage: What a Golden-Path IDP Actually Costs to Self-Host vs Renting Port or Cortex
Self-hosting Backstage costs roughly $95,000 a year at 20 developers against about $6,000 for Port or Cortex — yet two-thirds of platform teams still run it. A line-by-line cost model, the crossover math, and a team-size decision rule.
Twelve Rogue Certificates for 1.1.1.1: CAA + accounturi Pinning for Tenant Custom Domains
A CA issued twelve unauthorized certificates for 1.1.1.1 over nineteen months before anyone noticed. The three-line CAA record set that pins a custom domain to one ACME account, the threat model each line covers, and the renewal gotchas to clear before the March 2027 mandate.
Canine vs Coolify vs Dokploy: What the awesome-paas List Doesn't Tell You About the Second Machine
The awesome-paas list puts forty self-hosted platforms in one flat section with no signal about which survive a second machine. A taxonomy of the three architectures underneath — single-box Docker, Swarm multi-server, and attach-to-Kubernetes — worked through Canine, Coolify, and Dokploy.
A Community List Calls Render the Closest Heroku Replacement: What Crowdsourced Exit Advice Gets Right That Vendor Guides Don't
A community-maintained GitHub list names Render the closest one-to-one Heroku replacement — no vendor paid for that ranking. Where its map agrees with vendor guides, where it diverges, and the four format choices every migration guide should steal.
One API Key vs 7,000 Tools: Where a Self-Hosted PaaS's MCP Server Should Land
A homelab MCP bridge runs your infrastructure behind one API token; Arcade's engine vaults per-user OAuth behind 7,000 tools. The head-to-head operator math at three team sizes, and where a self-hosted PaaS should land between them.
Deplo Takes Your VPS Over: What a Migration-First Panel's 66-of-67 Dokploy Import Really Proves About Single-Box Lock-In
Deplo's installer reads a Dokploy or Coolify panel over its own API and recreates it with data included — 66 of 67 apps landed untouched in its September 4 audit. The named misses reveal where single-box lock-in really lives, and why the move still stops at per-app placement.
Django Hosting in 2026: $140+/Month on Heroku vs $38+ on Render vs $15–35 on Fly.io — Migrate the Bill or Exit Metered Compute?
The same production Django stack costs $140+/month on Heroku, $38+ on Render, $15–35 on Fly.io, or a flat $5–40 on owned hardware. A like-for-like price breakdown plus the Django migration checklist for each path.