1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Railway Sandboxes vs Fly Sprites (2026): What Hosted Agent Isolation Costs — and the Apache-2.0 Alternative
Railway's disposable project sandboxes vs Fly's persistent Sprite computers: the isolation tech, per-hour rates, and a worked breakeven showing when a ~$0.32–0.42 active hour loses to a €6 owned sandbox slot — plus the Apache-2.0 stack that reproduces both on your own hardware.
Railway's $150 Self-Host Crossover, Recomputed for a Fleet You Own
A September 2026 guide puts Railway's self-host crossover near $150 a month against a single VPS — recomputed here against a three-node Hetzner fleet, where flat hardware and bin-packing move break-even to about $30, with per-shape crossovers for always-on APIs, preview PRs, and idle side projects.
The Bandwidth Row Is the Bill: Railway's $50/TB Egress vs Hetzner's €1
Railway charges $50/TB for egress against Hetzner's €1 — a worked bill showing the ~200 GB/mo threshold where bandwidth alone costs more than a whole flat-rate box.
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io Re-Benchmarked: What the July 2026 Numbers and Render's New Billing Lines Mean for the Self-Host Math
July 2026's three-way PaaS benchmarks still hold in October — but Render's metered bandwidth and per-domain billing lines redraw the bill: worked team math, multi-tenant domain costs, and the self-hosted column that beats every hosted row.
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io, Repriced: What a Three-Service App Actually Costs After 2026's Pricing Resets
A line-by-line recompute of the same API-plus-worker-plus-Postgres stack on Railway, Render, and Fly.io at post-repricing 2026 rates — about $26, $40–62, and $48 with managed Postgres everywhere — plus the workload shapes that flip the winner.
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io for Solo Developers in 2026: The Hidden-Cost Anatomy
Two side projects — one always-on, one bursty — priced line by line on Railway, Render, and Fly.io: the bandwidth, IPv4, and volume lines that flip the ranking, and the workload count where a flat-rate Hetzner box undercuts all three.
Your PaaS Bumped the Default Runtime Again: Render's Bun 1.4.3 and the Case for Pinning Build Images You Control
Render's default Bun version moved three times in three months — 1.3.14 in July, 1.4.2 in September, 1.4.3 on October 12 — while existing services keep the version from their creation date. Why that forks unpinned fleets across a real behavioral boundary, and how to pin the runtime in four places.
Render's $100/mo Dedicated Outbound IPs vs a $14 Self-Hosted NAT Tier: What Stable Egress Identity Really Costs
Render's May 2026 dedicated outbound IPs cost $100/month for three static addresses. This teardown prices the self-hosted equivalent — an HA NAT gateway pair with floating IPs and per-tenant SNAT at ~$14/month in infrastructure — then adds the fully-loaded labor math, the honest failover story, and a decision guide for enterprise migrators.
Rivet Wants to Be Kubernetes 2.0: What a PaaS Without Kubernetes Gives Up on Machine Two
Rivet pitches itself as Kubernetes 2.0 — a trivially self-hostable orchestrator with a small core. A concrete inventory of what it drops (machine provisioning, upgrades, networking, bin-packing) versus what a Cluster API fleet already solves, and why a self-hosted PaaS still needs Kubernetes once the second machine arrives.