1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Zero-Downtime Docker Compose Deploys Hit HN: What Compose-Native Blue-Green Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS
StatusDude's HN-surfaced guide proves zero-downtime deploys need only Docker Compose, an HAProxy redispatch config, and a ten-line rolling loop — thousands of checks a minute with nothing dropped. Here is the exact recipe, the true blue-green sibling, and the capability gap that appears the moment deploys span machines.
The Agentic Enterprise's Second Platform User: Designing Golden Paths That Both Developers and Deploy Agents Can Safely Consume
AI agents now provision, deploy, and investigate incidents alongside developers. A side-by-side comparison of a human-only portal with a machine-readable golden path, and the four contracts that make deploy from chat safe.
One Shared Quota Took Down Every Connector: What a 402 on MCP Initialize Teaches About Self-Hosting Agent Tools
On September 9, 2026, one exhausted shared quota answered MCP initialize with HTTP 402 and took every OptimNow connector down at once. The 14-file move to Fly.io scale-to-zero is a complete template for self-hosting production agent tools — here is the incident anatomy and the checklist.
Two PaaS Freezes, One Exit Plan: Where App Runner and Heroku Workloads Go Next
AWS closed App Runner to new customers and Heroku froze its roadmap twelve weeks apart — this side-by-side maps each stranded workload to its landing zone and lays out the ordered exit checklist, from portable builds to cutover with rollback.
Approximated vs DIY: The Real Cost of Point-an-A-Record-and-We-Handle-SSL on a Cluster-API Fleet
Approximated charges $0.20 per domain per month — or $199+/month self-hosted — to automate custom domains and SSL. Here is what the same ACME-plus-DNS pipeline costs to build into a Cluster-API fleet you already run, with the crossover math at 100, 1,000, and 10,000 domains.
Back4App Ranked 10 Heroku Replacements — Where Render, Railway, and Fly.io Actually Land
Back4App's February 2026 guide ranks ten Heroku replacements after sustaining mode froze the roadmap. Render takes the free tier and the Heroku-UX crown, Fly.io takes the always-on floor — and the same 4vCPU/8GB stack costs $20–60 a month hosted versus €4.35 on a flat Hetzner box.
Backstage Scaffolder vs Port in 2026: What a Service Catalog Buys When Your Deploy API Already Owns the Golden Path
Backstage Scaffolder vs Port's managed catalog in 2026: what each adds over a git-push deploy API that already owns the golden path, plus the service-count rule for when a catalog earns its keep.
Zero-CVE Buildpacks Are Here: What BellSoft's Hardened Paketo Builder Means for a Git-Push PaaS
BellSoft's hardened Paketo builder promises zero-CVE images, 24-hour patching, signed builds, and automatic SBOMs with no workflow change. Here is what a git-push PaaS actually gains, what stays its problem, and how to evaluate the swap in an afternoon.
Your Kubernetes Fleet Runs at 8% CPU — Here's What That Costs on Metered Cloud vs. Owned Hardware
Cast AI's 2026 report puts average Kubernetes CPU utilization at 8%, down from 10%. A line-by-line comparison of what that waste costs on metered cloud versus flat-rate dedicated hardware — with the sensitivity analysis that keeps the math honest.