1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Cloudflare Gave Every AI-Generated App Its Own SQLite Database — Here's What That Costs to Replicate on Machines You Own
Cloudflare's Durable Object Facets gives every AI-generated app its own isolated SQLite database. How the supervisor-plus-facet model works, why database-per-tenant beats shared RLS for generated code, and what the same guarantee costs on hardware you own.
22 Months, a $250 Bounty, and a Maintainer's No: What Coolify's Kubernetes Standoff Reveals About Multi-Machine Support
Coolify's most-requested feature sat open for 22 months behind a $250 bounty before maintainers said no — then a volunteer built it anyway. A dated account of the standoff, why the refusal was rational, and what Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover concretely offer at machine number two.
dFlow Is Dokku With a Second Server: Where SSH Orchestration Stops and Reconciliation Starts
dFlow layers multi-server SSH orchestration and Railpack builds over plain Dokku — but no reconciliation, no self-healing, and no machine lifecycle. What that buys on a handful of Hetzner boxes, and where a Cluster API fleet takes over.
Next.js on a $6.50 VPS: What a Show HN Dokploy Guide Proves About the Vercel Exit
A Show HN walkthrough takes Next.js from a $6.50 VPS to automated production deploys on Dokploy — which Vercel conveniences survive the move, which sharp edges become DIY, and the cost math with its honest limits.
Every Deploy Surface Is Shipping an MCP Server: What a PaaS's Agent Interface Must Expose (and What Keeps It Safe)
TeamCity, Dooor OS, and the PaaS scoreboard all converged on the same contract: a typed MCP tool surface over deploy, rollback, logs, and status. The minimum inventory a git-push PaaS must expose, and the four controls that make it production-safe.
Fly.io Started Charging for Cross-Region Postgres Traffic in February 2026 — Here's What It Costs vs. Flat Networking on Owned Hardware
Fly.io began billing Managed Postgres cross-region traffic in February 2026 — three typical topologies priced on both Fly tiers against the same traffic on flat-rate hardware, plus the one-click fix that cuts the bill by two-thirds.
Fly.io Turned Off Its GPUs on August 1: Where GPU-Backed Tenants Go Now (With Real Numbers)
Fly.io shut off GPU Machines on August 1, 2026 after cutting its free tier and 17 regions. A workload-by-workload cost comparison of the five destinations — Modal, RunPod, Koyeb, hyperscaler serverless GPUs, and owned Hetzner hardware — with the bin-packing math that decides between them.
Fly.io Spent Three September Weeks on CLI Polish, Not Regions: What Pure DX Signals
Fly.io's September 1-19 flyctl history holds zero regions and eight CLI papercut fixes. That ratio is the strategy: once compute is a commodity, retention is manufactured in the deploy interface — and it hands open CLIs a nine-item checklist.
The Free Tier Is Dead in 2026 Except Render: What Zero-to-Free Now Costs a Side Project on Each PaaS
Heroku killed free in 2022, Fly.io and Railway followed — only Render still offers a free-forever tier. A platform-by-platform accounting of trial credits, minimum paid floors, sleep schedules, and 12-month totals for a typical side project, against the flat-rate Hetzner box that never sleeps.