1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Beyond the Big Four: What the Heroku-Alternative Long Tail Gets Right That Render and Railway Don't
Back4App's February 2026 ranking looks past Render and Railway to Sevalla, Upsun, Coolify, and Elastic Beanstalk — a verdict on where each second-tier Heroku alternative wins, where it loses, and the owned-hardware endgame the ranking never prices.
CloudNativePG Restored 4.5TB of Postgres in Two Minutes: What Snapshot Recovery Really Buys Your Self-Hosted DR Promise
CloudNativePG restored a 4.5TB Postgres database from a volume snapshot in about two minutes. Here is what that RTO number means for teams running tenant Postgres on their own Kubernetes fleets, and where object-store backups still carry the region-loss half of the promise.
Coolify's 11 Critical CVEs and the Single-Maintainer Security Bill
Coolify disclosed 11 critical flaws in January 2026 — seven scored CVSS 10.0 — and four more in July. What the CVE record, the rolling-beta patch train, and a three-person team mean for anyone running production behind the popular self-hosted PaaS.
Coolify's v5 Blueprint Is Public: Does Its Agent-and-Broker Rewrite Narrow the Fleet Gap With Cluster API?
Coolify published its accepted v5 architecture — control plane, gRPC broker, Rust host agent — alongside 62,145 stars and a weekly v4 patch train. A seven-primitive scoreboard shows which fleet gaps the rewrite closes and why machine lifecycle still separates it from Cluster API.
Coolify vs Dokploy on a $5 Hetzner Box: 7-Day Benchmark Numbers — and What Breaks When You Outgrow the Box
A 7-day head-to-head on a $5 Hetzner VPS puts Dokploy idle RAM at 0.8 GB against Coolify v4.0's 1.2 GB, with build times tied — then the numbers stop mattering. The 1–3 vs 4+ app decision rule, what Coolify's MCP server changed, and the second-server ceiling neither panel crosses.
Fly.io Sprites Speak MCP: What $0.07/CPU-Hour With Zero Idle Charge Really Costs Against Owned Hetzner Hardware
A line-by-line recompute of 200 agent sandboxes on Fly Sprites' idle-free meter versus E2B, Daytona, Modal, and owned Hetzner hardware — with the duty-cycle crossover points where each option wins.
Fly Postgres Is a Thin Provisioning Layer: The Exit Math When 'Managed' Stops at Replication and Backups
Fly Postgres provisions machines and replication but leaves pooling, monitoring, and failover to you. A worked three-way bill — classic Fly Postgres vs Managed Postgres vs CloudNativePG on owned nodes — for teams pricing an exit.
Fly.io vs Railway vs a $5 Droplet: What the No-Container Counter-Narrative Gets Right — and Where It Breaks at the Second Service
A $286 PaaS bill sparked the honest question: why not skip the platform and run a binary on a $6 droplet? Real 2026 numbers show the droplet wins for one app — until the second service arrives.
Gateway API v1.6 Makes TCPRoute and UDPRoute Standard: Own Your PaaS's L4 Traffic Without Ingress Annotations
Gateway API v1.6 graduates TCPRoute and UDPRoute to the Standard channel as stable v1 resources. Here is the one-Gateway design for tenant Postgres, game, DNS, and agent-protocol traffic — copy-paste YAML, a port-allocation policy that keeps tenants off each other's listeners, and the controller support matrix to check first.