1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
CrowdSec vs fail2ban on the Nodes You Own: Who Guards a Self-Hosted PaaS's SSH and HTTP Edge
fail2ban guards one box well but never shares what it learns. This comparison shows where fail2ban still wins, where CrowdSec's crowd-sourced blocklists and fleet-wide bouncers take over, and how to place each one on a self-hosted fleet.
Dokploy Restarts the Container, Coolify Rebuilds It: What 30-120 Second Rebuilds Cost a Production Deploy Loop
A head-to-head on identical Hetzner boxes found Dokploy restarts the existing image in seconds while Coolify v4.0 sometimes triggers a 30–120 second full rebuild on config edits. Here is what each button actually does, the rotation math across ten services, and the config-edit fast path every git-push PaaS should ship.
The Dutch Government Is Building a Microsoft Alternative on NixOS: What National-Scale Self-Hosting Signals for Teams Who Own Their Stack
The Dutch government's DAWO project is building a Microsoft-independent workplace on NixOS — here is what the mandate, pilots, and technology amount to, and what 'the whole system is declared in config' means for a self-hosted PaaS fleet choosing between NixOS and Talos for its node images.
What an E2B-Style Sandbox Actually Needs Before an Agent Touches Production
Sandbox isolation is a solved purchase — E2B, Daytona, and Modal all sell it. The pre-deploy gate around execution (substrate parity, artifact promotion, teardown-on-reject, credential scoping, and a tested-vs-shipped audit trail) is the harder infrastructure you still have to build, priced here against September 2026 vendor primitives.
etcd 3.7 RangeStream: What Streaming List Reads Mean for a Cluster API Fleet
etcd 3.7's RangeStream streams large collection reads in chunks instead of buffering whole responses, and Kubernetes 1.37 enables it by default. Here is where the memory win lands on a Cluster API fleet, how to verify it with one metric, and what it does not fix in your controllers' caches.
Your Deploy Agent Can Be Talked Into Anything: Deterministic Policy for MCP Tools That Ship Production
Sente Labs' extensible-mcp proxy puts deterministic policy between the LLM and its MCP servers — on-demand tool discovery, Rego-enforced calls, and signed approvals on the roadmap. What that buys any MCP surface whose tools can deploy and roll back production.
External Secrets Operator Won the Kubernetes Secrets War: A Self-Hosted PaaS Playbook
ESO passed 45M downloads and GA'd its v1 APIs, making it the default sync layer between external secret stores and Kubernetes. Here is the concrete buy-vs-cost case for adopting it as a fleet add-on — tenant-scoped stores, rotation semantics, and what it still doesn't solve.
Fly.io 18 Regions vs Render 5 vs Railway 4: A Multi-Region Exit Checklist for Leaving Edge Deployment for Owned Hardware
Fly.io runs 18 regions, Render pins each service to one of 5, Railway to one of 4 Metal regions — a step-by-step checklist for deciding which footprint your users actually need and moving the rest to owned hardware.
E2B vs Modal vs Daytona vs Fly Machines: The Agent Sandbox Market in 2026
E2B, Modal, Daytona, and Fly Machines compete to run your agent's code — compared on isolation, cold start, GPUs, and price, plus why a sandbox is no substitute for a deploy platform.