1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
New York Froze 50MW+ Data Centers. The Math Shows Self-Hosted PaaS Was Never in That Weight Class
New York's Executive Order 62 freezes new 50MW-plus data centers — but every self-hosted colocation campus in Europe tops out under that line. Here's the megawatt math, and what the freeze means for hosted PaaS vendors riding on hyperscaler capacity.
Northflank Has Four Kubernetes Modes. Only One Puts You in the Driver's Seat
Northflank markets four ways to run Kubernetes under its platform. Three of them mean Northflank's software still operates the control plane — only one hands that job to you. Here's the breakdown, with real numbers.
npm v12 Turns Off 16 Years of Automatic Code Execution: The Exact Packages You Need to Re-Approve Before Your Build Breaks
npm v12 flipped install scripts, Git dependencies, and remote tarballs to off by default after a year of worm-driven supply chain attacks — here's the exact audit of which packages need re-approving and what it means for a git-push PaaS's Node buildpack.
The NSA Just Published a Threat Model for MCP: What It Means for Your Deploy Agent
The NSA's AI Security Center named four structural risks in MCP's design — and every one already has a real 2026 incident behind it. Here's what each means concretely for a self-hosted MCP server with deploy and rollback authority.
Gitpod Bet the Company on Self-Hosted Agent Infra — Then OpenAI Bought It
Gitpod rebranded to Ona and went self-hosted-only in September 2025. Nine months later OpenAI bought it for Codex. Here's what a hyperscaler choosing to buy customer-owned execution instead of building it actually signals.
pgBackRest Got Archived, Then Rescued: The Bus-Factor Checklist Every Self-Hosted Postgres Backup Stack Needs
pgBackRest's repo went read-only in April 2026 after its corporate sponsor was sold, then a nine-company coalition revived it three weeks later. Here's the five-question checklist that story exposes, applied to the two real backup paths a CloudNativePG operator can choose today.
Railway's New MCP Server Has 7 Tools. bex's Shipped One Has 13 — and Still Can't Deploy
Railway's remote MCP server ships 7 tools and a one-line agent install; bex's already-shipped MCP server exposes 13. Here's what each actually lets an agent do unattended, and the one deploy verb bex still owes its own roadmap.
The Self-Hosted PaaS Category Gets Crowded in 2026: What Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy Actually Don't Do
Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy now cover the self-hosted PaaS category from every angle. A grounded look at the three things none of them do — and the real cost of the Kubernetes-native alternative that does.
SNCF Rebuilt Its Cloud-Native Platform on Cluster API — Here's What Changed
CNCF gave SNCF its 2026 Top End User Award for a Cluster API rebuild that cut cluster provisioning from a month to 30 minutes and production incidents by 90%. Here's the stack, the before/after numbers, and what it proves about running Cluster API at production stakes.