1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Vercel's Four Repricings Since 2024: What the Pattern Predicts for Your Next Bill Shock — and What a Fixed-Price Box Actually Fixes
Vercel re-modeled its billing four times in eighteen months — granular meters, Fluid Compute, Active CPU, then credits. Here is the full timeline, what the 3-10 month cadence means for your budget, and a worked comparison against a flat-rate Hetzner box where egress variance is zero.
xAI Open-Sourced Grok Build — But You Can't Send a Patch: What Apache-2.0 Without Open Contributions Actually Grants You
xAI published the 845,000-line Rust harness behind Grok Build under Apache-2.0 — then refused all external pull requests. A concrete breakdown of what a permissive license without open contributions actually grants a team: audit and fork rights, no roadmap influence, and a security-patch treadmill.
Cluster API v1.12's In-Place Updates and Chained Upgrades: What Changes for a Platform Team Running CAPH/CAPD in Production
Cluster API v1.12 shipped in-place updates and chained upgrades. For a 3-control-plane, 20-worker Hetzner fleet jumping three Kubernetes minors, that turns 29 replace-and-drain cycles under best pre-v1.12 practice into as few as zero — and three hand-sequenced hops into one declared version. The before/after runbook, with the CAPD rehearsal loop.
Flagger vs Argo Rollouts in 2026: Which Progressive-Delivery Operator Should Power a Git-Push PaaS's Canary Rollouts?
Flagger and Argo Rollouts shipped releases three days apart in July 2026, but they make opposite bets: wrap the Deployment or replace it, headless reconciler or human dashboard. A build-vs-choose comparison of each operator's stack assumptions, with a concrete verdict for a git-push PaaS on a Cluster API fleet.
ArgoCD 3.3 vs Flux 2.0 in 2026: Which GitOps Reconciler Fits a Cluster-API-Managed Fleet's Own Deploy Pipeline
Argo CD has 2.8x Flux's GitHub stars, but a self-hosted PaaS on Cluster API needs a reconciler shape, not a deploy dashboard. A four-axis head-to-head — tenancy, fleet rollout, footprint, security — with a concrete verdict for platform builders.
Your AI Agent's Debug Loop Costs Grow Quadratically, Not Linearly — Here's the Math
A 50-step AI agent debug loop bills 26x more than the tool calls it actually made — because every LLM call resends the entire conversation history. Here's the math, the real dollar cost for a deploy-from-chat MCP server, and the fix that actually bounds it.
Blue-Green Deploys on Cluster API: Flipping a Tenant's Traffic Between Two MachineDeployments Without Touching the Load Balancer
A rolling MachineDeployment update isn't blue-green. Here's the actual Cluster API primitive for an atomic, instantly-reversible traffic cutover — two MachineDeployments, one Service selector flip, and the in-flight-request handling most implementations skip.
The Buildpack Escape Hatch: Why 'No Dockerfile' Breaks for About 1 in 5 Repos
Buildpack pitches promise you'll never write a Dockerfile — until the detect phase rejects your repo with no editable file to fix. A worked estimate of how often that happens, and the three-tier escape hatch a git-push platform should ship instead of just falling back to raw Dockerfiles.
Buildpacks vs Dockerfiles for a Git-Push PaaS: The Real Build-Time, Image-Size, and Leaked-Detail Numbers
Buildpacks promise 'no Dockerfile needed,' Dockerfiles promise full control. A real, sourced comparison of build time, image size, and how much implementation detail each one pushes back onto the developer.