1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Fly.io's Seven Incidents in Nine Days: What Reading a Status History as a Migration Signal Actually Looks Like
Fly.io logged seven status-page incidents in nine days across builders, edge network, metrics, certs, and datacenter power. A tally of what broke, whether it is a pattern or a bad week, and a five-check method for reading any vendor's status history as a migration input.
Fly.io's Trial-Credit Runway: What Month 13 Costs When the $5 Runs Out
A $5 Fly.io credit lasts ten months for an idle side project and eighteen days for an always-on starter. Here is the line-by-line month-13 bill versus a flat-rate Hetzner box, and why a credit with no free tier behind it is a countdown.
formae Learned Kubernetes. Does a Cluster-API Fleet Still Need Another IaC Layer?
formae's May 2026 release added Kubernetes, Helm, and .tfvars support to its agent-based, state-file-free IaC platform. Here is where it fits on a Cluster-API fleet that is already GitOps-native — and where a second reconciler would only fight the first.
Only Two Free Tiers Left: What Render and PythonAnywhere Still Give Away vs. a $5 Hetzner Box
Only Render and PythonAnywhere still offer free-forever compute in September 2026. A line-by-line comparison of what each survivor covers — including Render's 30-day database cliff — against a ~$5/month Hetzner CX22, and which side of the free-vs-owned line a side project should start on.
GitLab's CVSS 10.0 File-Read Flaw: The Self-Hosted Patch Playbook for a 24-Hour Probe Window
CVE-2026-85706 lets unauthenticated attackers read any file off a self-managed GitLab server — and honeypots saw probes within 24 hours of disclosure. The four-step playbook: inventory, patch, forensic triage, and secret rotation.
Shipping a Deploy-Authority MCP Server on Golf: What the Framework Owns and What You Still Build
Golf, a production MCP server framework on FastMCP 4.0, owns auth, telemetry, and transport so you write only agent logic. Here is the exact framework-vs-platform split for an MCP server that deploys to production — plus the credential scoping, deploy API, and audit log no framework builds for you.
Headlamp Ate the Kubernetes Dashboard: What Cluster API Operators Actually Get (and What a Git-Push PaaS Should Still Hide)
The Kubernetes Dashboard is archived and Headlamp is the official successor. What the migration changes for Cluster API operators, what the new CAPI plugin delivers, and where a cluster console belongs in a git-push platform.
Heroku Is Frozen: What the 2026 Exit Guides Actually Recommend (and the Cost Row None of Them Prices)
Heroku entered sustaining mode in February 2026 with no new features and no new Enterprise contracts. A read across the 2026 exit guides maps Render, Railway, Fly.io, and self-hosting to the Heroku workload each fits, plus the priced comparison none of them shows: a typical 190-dollar-a-month dyno topology against metered rivals and a flat-rate box.
When Hetzner Renamed datacenter to location, a Cost Tool Went Blind
Hetzner removed the datacenter field on July 1, 2026, and a cost-tracking bot went blind: every server 'unknown', plan changes empty, prices from the wrong city. The full failure cascade, the money bugs underneath it, and a runbook for fleet tooling before the October 1 endpoint shutdown.