1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Hetzner vs DigitalOcean vs Vultr After Two 2026 Price Hikes: Which Cheap VPS Wins Each Tier of Your Fleet?
Hetzner raised cloud prices twice in 2026 and still undercuts DigitalOcean and Vultr three-to-fourfold per core. A tier-by-tier read of which provider wins control planes, workers, build runners, and US nodes once IPv4 fees and traffic allowances are priced in.
Show HN Promised Instant Kubernetes With KVM and gRPC — the Hard Part Was Never Provisioning
A Show HN promises production Kubernetes in 5–10 minutes via KVM and gRPC agents. Machine lifecycle is already standardized by Cluster API — the unsolved half is the tested service bundle, and no protocol fixes that.
Kapibara Builds Git Pushes With In-Cluster BuildKit and a Railpack Frontend — No Docker-in-Docker Required
Kapibara's Docker-less build path replaces per-build Docker-in-Docker pods with one in-cluster BuildKit daemon and a Railpack frontend — the step-by-step design, what it removes, and what it still costs.
Karmada Just Graduated: What Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Maturity Means for Your Single-Region Fleet
Karmada graduated from the CNCF on September 8, 2026, with v1.19's AI-training scheduling in tow. For a Hetzner-only Cluster API fleet, the move is to borrow its propagation and failover patterns now and adopt the control plane when a second region arrives.
Your Migrated App Still Asks Which PaaS It's On
Migrated apps keep sniffing for DYNO, RAILWAY_*, and FLY_APP_NAME long after they leave those platforms. The concrete inject list and do-not-fake list a Render-compatible self-hosted API must honor so tenants' health checks and telemetry keep telling the truth.
Netlify Killed Per-Seat Pricing and Doubled Bandwidth Meters: What Your App Actually Pays Now
Netlify traded $20-per-seat billing for unlimited seats and doubled usage meters. A credit-by-credit recompute of what traffic-heavy apps pay under the new rates — and the few-hundred-gigabyte crossover where owned hardware wins.
Northflank BYOC vs Owning Hetzner Boxes: What Bring-Your-Own-Cloud Actually Saves
The same API-plus-Postgres stack priced five ways: Render, Railway, Northflank managed, Northflank BYOC on AWS, and a Hetzner box under Cluster API — plus the sensitivity analysis that decides which one is actually cheapest for your workload.
Ownkube's Named AI Agents Run Your Ops — but the AWS Bill Is Still Yours
Ownkube pairs a Heroku-style deploy UX with named AI agents for cost, incident, scaling, and security — but its Production shape still runs on EKS. A worked 8-vCPU comparison puts the AWS route at $460–510 a month against €60–90 on owned hardware.
Proxly Puts ngrok on Your Own Domain — but Your Laptop Is Still the Server
Proxly is a self-hosted ngrok alternative that exposes localhost on subdomains of your own domain through a VPS relay and wildcard DNS. How its WebSocket relay works, what it costs against ngrok's paid tiers, and why a tunnel still isn't a deployment.