1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Fly.io Added Two Billing Lines in 2026: What Metering Creep Costs Against a Flat Hetzner Box
Fly.io started billing for volume snapshots and inter-region private networking in early 2026 — no sticker-price hike, but two new dimensions to forecast. A line-by-line invoice for a real multi-region app shows what they add and why a flat Hetzner box is immune to metering creep.
Fly.io Is Killing GPUs on August 1: What Two Retreats in Three Years Say About Renting vs Owning Your Accelerators
Fly.io's A10/L40S/A100 GPUs go unavailable August 1, 2026 — its second GPU retreat since 2024 — while its jobs page sits at zero. A concrete migration math of where inference workloads land on rented GPU clouds vs owned bare-metal nodes, and why an owned GPU pool can't be sunset.
Fly.io Killed Its Subscription Tiers in 2024 and Kept Adding Billing Lines Through 2026: What Pure Usage-Based Pricing Actually Costs an Always-On App at Scale
Fly.io cut its Hobby/Launch/Scale plans in October 2024 for per-second usage billing, then added snapshot and egress-IP charges in 2026. A line-by-line model prices the same always-on app on Fly.io versus a flat Hetzner CX23 and shows why the forecast matters more than the sticker price.
Hetzner's 2026 Price Shocks: What Two Repricings Did to the 'Owning Hardware Is Cheaper' Pitch
Hetzner raised prices twice in five months — 30% in April, up to 176% on CPX/CCX in June — driven by a 171% DRAM surge. Here is what changed per instance family and what a real Cluster API fleet costs before and after both hikes.
Hetzner Raised Prices Twice in 10 Weeks: What Your Self-Hosted Fleet Really Costs Now
Hetzner raised cloud prices 30–37% on April 1 and up to 204% more on June 15 for CPX/CCX instances. A recomputed fleet model shows post-June costs at $63–78 on CX/CAX and $136–184 on CPX/CCX versus $75–150 on Render, Railway, and Fly.io at their own 2026 prices.
Two Incidents in Four Days: What Hetzner's Provisioning Delay Actually Costs When You Don't Multi-Cloud
Hetzner logged two incidents four days apart in July 2026 — a rack network fault and a resource-creation delay. Only one would have taken your tenants down, and telling them apart is the real operator skill.
Hetzner's €889 RTX PRO 6000: What Self-Hosted AI Inference Actually Costs When You Already Own the Fleet
Hetzner's GEX131 with a 96GB RTX PRO 6000 costs €889/month flat — no per-token meter, no pause button. A worked comparison of what that card actually serves via vLLM, where it undercuts hosted API pricing, and where bursty load makes the monthly commit the expensive choice.
Kubernetes Is 80% Cheaper Than Heroku — Until You Pay the Ops Bill
The viral 80% cheaper claim holds on raw compute — Hetzner beats Railway and Render by 50 to 83% in 2026 dollars — but a realistic ops burden flips the result for small teams. Three worked bills, post-hike Hetzner prices, and the break-even math.
The Self-Hosted LLM Gateway Pattern: How Mantis and LiteLLM Turn Model Routing Into a $10 Container
Self-hosted gateways like Mantis and LiteLLM run model routing, fallback, and cost tracking as a $10 container beside your apps — at 100M tokens the 5.5% managed fee costs 3x more and still routes your prompts through a third party.