1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
MCP's Tasks Extension Is Built for Work That Outlives a Single HTTP Request — Exactly the Shape of a Deploy
MCP's July 2026 spec ships a Tasks extension so a deploy tool call can outlive a single HTTP request — here's how tasks/get polling beats the hand-rolled deploy_status workaround every deploy-from-chat integration had to invent before it.
What Self-Hosting OpenMeter's Kafka+ClickHouse Stack Actually Costs a Git-Push PaaS
OpenMeter's self-hosted stack adds two new stateful services — Kafka and ClickHouse — to bill per millisecond. Here's what that actually costs in Hetzner hardware and ops burden against billing tenants on signals a PaaS already tracks for free.
Railway's Three Years Without a Price Increase vs Render's April 2026 Repricing: What Sticker Stability Actually Signals
Railway hasn't touched its plan fee or rate card since 2023; Render restructured its entire workspace pricing in April 2026. Here's what the two timelines actually reveal about cost structure, growth strategy, and why a flat sticker price isn't the same claim as a flat bill.
Render, Railway, and Fly.io's Hiring Pages: Reading Job Counts Before You Migrate
Render lists 40 open roles, Railway 6, Fly.io zero. A framework for reading a hosted PaaS vendor's own careers page and product changelog as a leading indicator before you commit to it — or migrate off it.
Wassette Runs MCP Tools as WebAssembly, Not Containers: What That Actually Buys a Self-Hosted Fleet
Microsoft's Wassette runs MCP tools as WebAssembly Components with deny-by-default WASI permissions instead of a container or a Firecracker microVM. Here's what the microsecond instantiation and policy.yaml grants actually buy a self-hosted fleet — and the GPU access, fork(), and resource-quota gaps that still mean a heavier sandbox for everything else.
Your MCP Server Doesn't Know Who's Deploying. WorkOS's OAuth 2.1 Stack Fixes That
Most MCP servers still trust a bearer token in an env var. WorkOS's May 2026 OAuth 2.1 stack — CIMD, Resource Indicators, and on-behalf-of token exchange — finally answers the question a deploy-authority MCP server can't skip: which agent, acting for whom, just asked to ship to production?
Zeabur's $5 'No Sleep' Credit vs a €4.35 Hetzner Box: What You're Actually Paying For
Zeabur's $5/month Dev plan sells freedom from cold-start sleep. A line-by-line recompute of what that $5 credit actually covers on Zeabur's metered RAM pricing versus a €4.35 Hetzner CX22 that was never billed by the minute at all.
Blacksmith and Depot Colocate Docker Layer Cache on NVMe: What 40x Faster CI Builds Mean for Self-Hosted Build Pipelines
Blacksmith and Depot claim 20x-40x faster Docker builds by moving the layer cache onto NVMe disk colocated with the build machine. Here's the actual mechanism, and what it means for a self-hosted PaaS that already owns its build hardware.
Canine's MCP Server Can Deploy — Coolify's Still Can't: A Tool-by-Tool Audit
Canine's built-in MCP server ships one write tool — DeployProject — where Coolify's stays fully read-only. Here's the exact tool list across Canine, Coolify, and Dokploy, and what Canine's Kubernetes-native architecture actually buys over each.