1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
The 5x PaaS Pricing Spread: What One API + Worker + Postgres Costs on Railway, Render, Fly.io, Vercel — and a Flat Hetzner Box
A line-by-line recompute of the same API, worker, and Postgres workload across Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel rate cards — plus egress sensitivity to 2 TB, cold-start math, and the flat Hetzner number the whole spread collapses to.
Sessions Live, Sandboxes Die: How Perplexity Cut Agent Sandbox Creation From 185ms to 60ms
Perplexity's SPACE runtime cut agent sandbox creation from 185ms to 60ms median by making the session — not the sandbox — the durable unit. The mechanism, the honest median-vs-tail math, and what it sets as the bar for self-hosted sandboxes.
No Account, 60 Minutes, Zero Trust: The Abuse Controls Behind Anonymous Deploys
Railway's no-account 60-minute deploys show what instant agent-to-preview loops need — and what stops them from becoming free cryptominers. A hostile-user checklist for quotas, network cages, build scanning, and timed teardown on your own Kubernetes fleet.
Railway's Per-Second Meter vs Render's Flat Workspace Fee: What a Bursty Side Project Actually Costs in 2026
Railway bills compute by the second under a $5 Hobby floor; Render charges a flat workspace fee plus fixed per-service prices. A worked comparison for a bursty side project and a steady production app — with the crossover math and what a flat Hetzner box removes entirely.
Render's 75% Faster Python Builds, Deconstructed: What a Self-Hosted PaaS Must Cache to Match It
Render claims buildpacks make Python builds 75% faster than a Dockerfile. The speedup is really warm layer-cache locality, and a self-hosted PaaS can match it with persistent build caches, warm build nodes, and dependency-first layering.
Paying $4,700 for a $1,999 GPU: What the RTX 5090 Street Premium Does to Self-Hosted Inference Math
An RTX 5090 at today's $4,700 street price adds about $75 a month to a self-hosted inference node — while H100 rentals fell roughly 70% from their peak. A worked amortization of both price curves, and where buying still wins.
Four PaaS on One Server: What the 2026 Self-Hosted Boom Gets Right, and What Breaks at Machine Two
Coolify, Dokploy, Dokku, and CapRover top every 2026 self-hosted PaaS roundup. Here is how they compare on multi-machine support, Compose versus Kubernetes portability, and agent-ready MCP surfaces — and where each one beats bex today.
Replace Is a Disaster on Bare Metal: What Talos Linux's In-Place Philosophy Means for Your Cluster API Fleet
Sidero Labs walked away from Cluster API because replacing a bare-metal machine on every change is a disaster — then CAPI v1.12 learned in-place updates. A runbook-level comparison of both upgrade paths and what a Hetzner-backed fleet should actually do.
Upsun Bills You Four Times for One App: What a Typical API + Postgres + Redis Stack Really Costs vs. a €4 Hetzner Box
A line-by-line recompute of a typical API plus Postgres plus Redis stack on Upsun's four-dimension meter versus the same containers on a flat Hetzner CX22, with preview-environment sensitivity math and an honest read on what per-app cloud choice is worth.