1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Render's Free PostgreSQL Expires After 30 Days: The Gotcha That Turns a Free-Tier Deploy Into a Migration Deadline
Render's free web services are free forever, but free Postgres expires 30 days after creation and is deleted two weeks later. Here is what day 31 costs: staying on Render versus migrating to a flat-rate box, priced over 12 months.
Render Lets You Repoint Production With One Click. Who Vouched for the Bytes?
Render's May 2026 dashboard swaps any service's backing repo or image with one click and an automatic deploy. The convenience is real, but without digest pins, signature checks, or a change ceremony, the audit trail vouches for the click — not the bytes.
Render Made Python Installs 10x Faster and Moved Support to Discord While the Builder Contract Stayed Put
Render's 2026 changelog made Python installs faster with 3.14 and uv, workspace bills flatter, and support chattier — while the builder contract underneath stayed vendor-owned. Here is which deploy failures faster installs cannot fix, and what changes when you own the builder.
Rotate the Database Password Without Shipping a Rebuild: A No-Redeploy Secrets Playbook for Git-Push Platforms
Self-hosted git-push platforms bake secrets into deploys, so every password rotation ships a rebuild. A playbook for decoupling them: projected Secret volumes, a reload sidecar, and the overlap ordering that keeps Postgres readers connected throughout.
The 2026 Self-Hosted PaaS Category Problem: Coolify, Dokku, CapRover, and Dokploy Are Docker Panels, Not Kubernetes Fleets
Coolify, Dokploy, Dokku, and CapRover top every 2026 self-hosted PaaS roundup, but they are Docker panels — not Kubernetes fleets. A three-bucket map, a 3-question category test, and what each bucket outgrows first.
Fixed vs. Metered: What a 4-Service Stack Really Costs on Sevalla vs Railway
The same four-service stack costs $69/month on both Sevalla and Railway — until workloads turn bursty or spiky. A worked three-scenario comparison with the math, plus the flat-rate Hetzner number that collapses both bills.
Sidero Labs Joins Yardi and Launches Talos Enterprise Linux: What It Means for Self-Hosted Fleets
Sidero Labs was acquired by Yardi and launched Talos Enterprise Linux in the same week. Here is what stays open, what moves behind the enterprise agreement, and what self-hosted Talos fleets should do this month.
Tabby Is the Self-Hosted Copilot Nobody Priced Yet: Owned GPUs vs Per-Seat Copilot
Fifty developers on Copilot Business costs $11,400 a year; a $3,000 GPU box serves the same team flat. The full TCO of self-hosted Tabby on owned GPUs — hardware, power, ops time, and Copilot's usage-based overage — with breakevens at 10, 20, and 50 seats.
Tenant Offboarding Is a Data-Deletion Problem: The GDPR Erasure Checklist Across Volumes, Snapshots, Logs, Registries, and Backups
Deleting a churned tenant's namespace takes ninety seconds. Erasing their personal data from volumes, snapshots, logs, registries, backups, DNS, and metrics takes a checklist — here it is, with each store's deletion mechanism, retention clock, and an honest accounting of what cannot be deleted.