1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Gitea vs Forgejo vs GitLab CE in 2026: Picking the Git Forge Behind Your Deploy Pipeline
Gitea, Forgejo, and GitLab CE compared on RAM footprint, governance, CI runners, and cost — with a decision guide for teams picking the forge behind their deploy pipeline.
Your Deploy MCP Server Is Production Infrastructure: Scoring Golf's Built-In Auth, Tracing, and Telemetry
Golf promises MCP servers with auth, observability, and telemetry included instead of bolted on. A row-by-row check of that claim for a deploy/scale/rollback toolset — what the framework covers, what needs its Gateway, and why the tagline's debugger gets an asterisk.
hcloud's Per-Location Availability Columns Are the Safety Check CAPH Dropped
CAPH v1.0.7 stopped validating server types and Hetzner moved availability to per-location signals, so a typo'd type now fails at the API instead of kubectl apply. Poll hcloud's Available/Recommended columns, pin types per location, and gate the apply.
The Heroku Exit Playbook's Missing Half: Pipelines and Review Apps on Machines You Own
The Heroku exit playbook moved apps, add-ons, and data — but release process stayed behind. A concrete mapping of Pipelines promotion and Review Apps onto Kargo, GitHub Actions environments, and per-PR namespaces, with the honest cost of replicating automatic per-PR databases.
Heroku, Seven Months Into Sustaining Mode: Where the Leavers Went, and the Fourth Option the Guides Never Priced
Seven months after Heroku's sustaining-mode announcement, the 2026 guides route every leaver to Render, Railway, or Fly.io. We audit four guides' routing consensus, triangulate where teams actually landed, and price the row they all skip: the same dyno-hours as utilization on one flat box.
Hetzner's €5.99 Server Is a Number You Can't Buy: What the Missing Cheap Tier Does to the Self-Hosting Price Anchor
Hetzner's €5.99 cloud server is still on the price list but every Cost-Optimized model is marked unavailable, forcing new deployments onto tiers costing 3.34× to 4.24× more. This post traces the two 2026 price hikes, the DRAM shortage behind them, and how to re-anchor self-hosting budgets to the catalog you can actually order from.
HPA Scale-to-Zero Is Beta in Kubernetes 1.37: The Two Deadlocks That Strand Workloads at Zero
Kubernetes 1.37 made HPA scale-to-zero a default-on beta — but a metric rule that can never fire and a status condition that was never set can strand workloads at zero replicas forever. A pre-flight checklist for platforms: safe wake-up metrics, zero-lock detection, and single ownership of the replica count.
Five Surprising Ingress-NGINX Behaviors to Audit Before Migrating to Gateway API
Ingress-NGINX retired in March 2026, and a clean converter run is not a correct migration. Audit these five behaviors — regex quirks, vanishing redirects, and untranslatable annotations — before flipping traffic to Gateway API routes.
Kubernetes Enters Its Boring Era: What Three Stability-First Releases Buy a Part-Time Platform Team
Kubernetes 1.36 through 1.38 are deliberately boring releases — steady graduations, one deprecation at a time. A ledger of what that saves a small Cluster API fleet during upgrade season, and the patch treadmill it doesn't cancel.