1512 posts tagged with "PaaS"
Platform-as-a-Service tooling, economics, and self-hosted alternatives
Railway Prices Compute in Scientific Notation: What $0.000463 per vCPU-Second Actually Costs a Month
Railway's $0.000463/vCPU-minute is $20 per vCPU per month — but only if you catch the unit. A worked table converts Railway's per-second and per-minute rates to monthly costs for four real workloads, shows why legibility is its own billing risk, and prices the same stack on a flat Hetzner box.
Render's $1.5B Valuation and a 20× Bandwidth Cut in the Same Quarter: Who $0.15/GB Egress Is Actually Priced For
Render raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation in the same quarter it cut Hobby bandwidth 20× — from 100GB to 5GB at $0.15/GB overage. A worked table prices 5GB to 5TB on Render Hobby/Pro/Scale against a Hetzner CX22's flat 20TB to show who the new meter is actually priced for.
51 Days to Fix Object Storage: What a Seven-Week Remediation Tells You About the Real Reliability Bar
Scaleway's AMS object storage incident took 33 to 51 days to fully remediate region by region in H1 2026 — no data loss, but seven weeks where the managed SLA was the thing that was broken.
SST Put Itself in Maintenance Mode to Build an AI Agent — 650K Devs in Five Months Shows Where Infra Builders Are Betting
SST has been in maintenance mode since 2025 while its team's terminal agent OpenCode hit 650K developers in five months. A timeline, market math, risk matrix, and migration checklist for teams still on SST.
Vercel at $200 vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Framework-Agnostic Cost Teardown
The same Next.js SSR + API workload lands between $20 and $200/month on Vercel Pro once invocations, ISR and edge middleware meter separately — versus €3.79 flat on a Hetzner box with no per-request billing. A line-by-line teardown of where the bill actually moves.
Vercel's Third Acquihire in a Year Bought an AI That Cuts a 4-Hour DevOps Task to 50 Minutes — What That Wager Reveals
In July 2026 Vercel acquired Stakpak — an Egyptian, Rust-based autonomous DevOps agent that claims to cut infrastructure work from four hours to 50 minutes — its third acquihire in 12 months. What the deal reveals about where hosted platforms are racing, and why an acquihire-built autonomous layer is a different bet than an open Render API plus MCP server any agent can already call.
Cloudflare Containers vs a €4 Hetzner Box: What a Container Next to Your Worker Actually Costs
Cloudflare Containers bills per 10ms with scale-to-zero; a Hetzner CX23 costs €3.99 flat with 20TB included. Three workloads priced line by line show when the edge container wins and when the owned box wins — and why it is a latency versus predictability tradeoff.
Fly.io's $2.02 Machine Isn't Your Bill: The Five Metered Lines That Double It
Fly.io's $2.02 Machine is the headline, not the invoice. A line-by-line reconstruction of what volumes, egress, egress IPs, snapshots, and private networking add to a real app — and what the same stack costs flat on Hetzner.
The Four PaaS Pricing Pages You Must Re-Audit in Q3 2026: Railway, Render, Fly, and Vercel After Active CPU
Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel all moved their meters in 2026. A same-workload, line-by-line bill recompute across all four — plus the flat Hetzner baseline — shows where costs really diverge.