1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
SSH3 in 2026: QUIC Shell Access Grew Up, but Its Own Forks Say Don't Ship It Yet
SSH3 re-implements SSH on QUIC, TLS 1.3, and HTTP/3 with 3-round-trip setup, roaming sessions, and UDP forwarding — but unaudited code and a renamed spec mean 2026's honest posture is a bastion-side trial, not a cutover. Here is the adoption map.
Beyond the Frontend Scorecard: What Stormkit's Self-Hosted Vercel Roundup Misses for App-PaaS Buyers
Stormkit's August 2026 roundup ranks six self-hosted Vercel alternatives through a frontend lens. This companion scorecard rates Coolify, Dokploy, Dokku, CapRover, Kamal, and Stormkit on the backend dimensions that matter: workers, cron, databases, backups, and multi-server support.
Your PaaS Bill Is a Discovery Process, Not a Plan
Vercel repriced four times since 2024 and Fly.io added new billing line items in 2026. A priced quiet-month vs viral-month comparison shows why the metered invoice arrives as a discovery process — and why a fixed-cost box wins on predictability, not just price.
The Agent That Burned $4,200 in 63 Hours: What a Deploy/Rollback MCP Server Needs for Spend Circuit Breakers
A $4,200 weekend bill with no ceiling in the loop is the shape of every 2026 agent-cost incident — here is the five-layer circuit-breaker design, from server-side spend ledgers to namespace quotas and a kill switch, that stops the next one.
Anthropic Split the Agent's Brain From Its Hands: Why Infrastructure Is Now the Bottleneck
Anthropic's Managed Agents architecture splits every agent into a stateless brain, disposable sandbox hands, and a durable session log — and the hands are yours to own. A concrete mapping of who runs what, the per-second cost math of managed sandboxes versus owned machines, and the five-item checklist a real execution layer must satisfy.
Two-Thirds of Platform Teams Run Backstage: What a Golden-Path IDP Actually Costs to Self-Host vs Renting Port or Cortex
Self-hosting Backstage costs roughly $95,000 a year at 20 developers against about $6,000 for Port or Cortex — yet two-thirds of platform teams still run it. A line-by-line cost model, the crossover math, and a team-size decision rule.
Twelve Rogue Certificates for 1.1.1.1: CAA + accounturi Pinning for Tenant Custom Domains
A CA issued twelve unauthorized certificates for 1.1.1.1 over nineteen months before anyone noticed. The three-line CAA record set that pins a custom domain to one ACME account, the threat model each line covers, and the renewal gotchas to clear before the March 2027 mandate.
Canine vs Coolify vs Dokploy: What the awesome-paas List Doesn't Tell You About the Second Machine
The awesome-paas list puts forty self-hosted platforms in one flat section with no signal about which survive a second machine. A taxonomy of the three architectures underneath — single-box Docker, Swarm multi-server, and attach-to-Kubernetes — worked through Canine, Coolify, and Dokploy.
A Community List Calls Render the Closest Heroku Replacement: What Crowdsourced Exit Advice Gets Right That Vendor Guides Don't
A community-maintained GitHub list names Render the closest one-to-one Heroku replacement — no vendor paid for that ranking. Where its map agrees with vendor guides, where it diverges, and the four format choices every migration guide should steal.