1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Your Tenant Asked for a Full VM: the KubeVirt-vs-VM-API Decision Table for a Containers-First Fleet
A tenant wants a full VM on your containers-first fleet. This decision table maps five real VM requests to KubeVirt, VM API, CAPI infra providers, or outsourcing — with what Broadcom's CNCF Sandbox VM API changes and the four conditions that would make VMs a first-class deploy target.
Hetzner's ARM Discount Is Dead: the CAX-vs-CX Math for Your CAPH Fleet
Hetzner's ARM line now costs about 31% more than spec-identical x86 while EU capacity stays dry. Fleet-level CAX-vs-CX cost tables, a reshuffle-proof CAPH machine-template pattern, and why multi-arch buildpack images still matter.
Service ExternalIPs Are Going Away: The v1.36 Deprecation Timeline and Your Migration Runbook
Kubernetes 1.36 deprecated Service spec.externalIPs, with kube-proxy support ending by v1.43. A fleet-wide audit command, a decision table mapping each usage to its Gateway API, LoadBalancer, or NodePort replacement, and an ordered runbook for self-hosted fleets.
Automatic TLS Without a Hosted Edge: The Real Ops Bill for Custom Domains and Wildcards on a Self-Hosted Fleet
Fifty tenants, 51 certificates, and roughly 620 renewal events a year at 45-day lifetimes: what Caddy, Traefik with cert-manager, and Envoy SDS each cost to operate for custom domains and wildcards on a self-hosted fleet — plus the six-item renewal runbook to finish before February 10, 2027.
Your DBA Agent Wants Superuser. Hand It This Permission Ladder Instead
DeepSQL's self-hostable DBA agent shows why agent credentials belong in database GRANTs, not app-layer filters: a five-rung Postgres/MySQL permission ladder from own-nothing roles to replica-first reads and migration-PR-only writes.
Before You Sell Hosting on It: Dokploy's Source-Available License vs Coolify's Apache 2.0
Dokploy gates SSO, whitelabeling, and audit logs behind a commercial agreement while Coolify stays fully Apache 2.0 — a buyer-by-buyer verdict on which self-hosted PaaS an agency can legally build managed client hosting on.
Which 'Free' Hosting Tier Actually Survives 12 Months? Testing the 100-Platform Free-Tier Guide
A 12-month survival test of the free tiers in a 150-platform hosting guide: which of Vercel, Netlify, Render, Railway, Fly.io, and Coolify keep a small deploy live for free, and what each fallback really costs per year.
Three 'Top 10 Heroku Alternatives' Guides, Three Self-Crowned Winners: A Line-by-Line Migration Reprice
Three vendor 'Top 10 Heroku alternatives' guides each rank their author first. A starter API-plus-worker-plus-Postgres stack repriced line by line on Railway, Render, Fly.io, frozen Heroku, and a Hetzner box — plus the re-weighting demo that proves rankings are ads and rubrics are tools.
Hostinger Undercuts Hetzner 70% on the Same RTX PRO 6000: The Own-vs-Rent GPU Math
Hostinger rents the 96 GB RTX PRO 6000 at $0.65/hr against Hetzner's $2.15 and a $3.00 Akamai top. A worked utilization table shows when each rental row beats the €999/mo GEX63 flat-rate box — and why a 4.6x price spread is itself the argument for owning the card.