1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Vercel's Four Repricings Since 2024: A Cost Trajectory Against Render, Railway, and Fly.io
Vercel has rewritten its pricing model four times since 2024 — bandwidth, compute billing, CPU units, and seats. A dated timeline of every change, lined up against what Render, Railway, and Fly.io did in the same window.
Vercel Shipped an Official MCP Server. Here's Every Tool It Refuses to Give Your Agent
Vercel's official MCP server took a year to gain its first write tool — and it still can't touch an existing project's env vars, domains, or a rollback. A tool-by-tool audit of the agent-ops bar the market leader actually set.
The AI Rollback Paradox: 81% of the Best-Governed Teams Pulled Their Agents Anyway
Sinch's 2026 survey found 74% of enterprises rolled back a live AI agent — and the best-governed teams rolled back the most, at 81%. Here's what that means for building rollback into an MCP deploy surface as a cheap default instead of another approval gate.
AI Sandbox Pricing Audited: Northflank's $0.01667/vCPU-hr vs E2B/Daytona's $0.0504 vs Modal's $0.1419
Every AI-sandbox pricing comparison quotes Modal at 0.1419 dollars per vCPU-hour against Northflank's 0.01667 — but Modal bills per physical core, not per vCPU. Here's the corrected math and the exact utilization threshold where self-hosting on owned Hetzner hardware actually beats each vendor's metered rate.
What Cloud Native Buildpacks' Convention Buys a Git-Push PaaS Over a Hand-Rolled Build Script — and the One Escape Hatch It Still Needs
Cloud Native Buildpacks trades a hand-rolled detect-and-build script for community-maintained language coverage, reproducible image digests, and built-in SBOMs — but a git-push PaaS still needs a Dockerfile escape hatch for the repos convention can't detect.
CNCF Says Cloud Native Already Runs AI. Here's What Actually Transfers to a Git-Push PaaS
CNCF says the same cloud-native primitives already run web apps and AI workloads. Here's exactly what transfers to a git-push PaaS today — GitOps, containers, observability — and what still doesn't: GPU scheduling, disaggregated serving, and multi-agent orchestration.
Docker Cancels Hub Pull-Rate Charges Outright: What Walking Back a Pricing Threat (Not Just Postponing It) Signals About Registry Cost Risk on Owned Hardware
Docker didn't just delay its Hub pull-consumption pricing again — it cancelled the plan outright in April 2025. Here's what that reversal actually changed, what rate-limit risk survived it untouched, and what a pull-through cache costs to run on owned hardware versus metered cloud infrastructure.
Docker Engine v29 Raised Its API Floor to 1.44 — Here's Exactly Who Survived
Docker Engine v29 raised its minimum client API version to 1.44 and instantly broke every self-hosted tool with an older version hardcoded. A tool-by-tool accounting of who fixed it, who didn't, and why the difference wasn't luck.
Dokploy and Coolify Stopped Calling Themselves 'Heroku Alternatives.' Here's What That Actually Means
Dokploy and Coolify used to pitch themselves as Heroku replacements. In 2026 both lead with Vercel and Netlify instead — a rebrand backed by real pricing math, GitHub star counts, and a feature gap that says a lot about who's actually migrating.