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Vercel Now Deploys Your Dockerfile — and Admits Functions Weren't Enough
·Dora Noda·12 min

Vercel Now Deploys Your Dockerfile — and Admits Functions Weren't Enough

Vercel's summer 2026 Services release — multi-framework projects, private Service Bindings, and Dockerfile deploys — concedes the multi-service model Render, Railway, and Fly.io always sold. Here is what shipped, the capability-by-capability gap table separating functions from persistent services, and a decision rule for which side your stack falls on.

PaaS
self-hosting
migration
infrastructure
Wildcard TLS on Autopilot: How Every Tenant Subdomain Gets a Trusted Cert in Under 90 Seconds
·Dora Noda·9 min

Wildcard TLS on Autopilot: How Every Tenant Subdomain Gets a Trusted Cert in Under 90 Seconds

Every tenant subdomain on a PaaS needs a trusted certificate at deploy time. Here is how one wildcard cert, cert-manager's DNS-01 solver, and Let's Encrypt deliver it in under 90 seconds — and why per-tenant certs hit rate limits first.

self-hosting
PaaS
Kubernetes
security
AgentENV: What Kimi K3's Self-Hosted E2B-Compatible Sandbox Really Costs on Owned Hardware
·Dora Noda·11 min

AgentENV: What Kimi K3's Self-Hosted E2B-Compatible Sandbox Really Costs on Owned Hardware

AgentENV runs E2B-compatible agent sandboxes as Firecracker microVMs on your own machines. Here is the concrete math — E2B's per-second meter against a €97 dedicated box — plus the snapshot storage, gateway HA, and KVM capacity planning the move shifts onto your plate.

AI agents
self-hosting
cost-optimization
infrastructure
Beyond the Big Four: What the Heroku-Alternative Long Tail Gets Right That Render and Railway Don't
·Dora Noda·10 min

Beyond the Big Four: What the Heroku-Alternative Long Tail Gets Right That Render and Railway Don't

Back4App's February 2026 ranking looks past Render and Railway to Sevalla, Upsun, Coolify, and Elastic Beanstalk — a verdict on where each second-tier Heroku alternative wins, where it loses, and the owned-hardware endgame the ranking never prices.

PaaS
migration
self-hosting
cost-optimization
CloudNativePG Restored 4.5TB of Postgres in Two Minutes: What Snapshot Recovery Really Buys Your Self-Hosted DR Promise
·Dora Noda·10 min

CloudNativePG Restored 4.5TB of Postgres in Two Minutes: What Snapshot Recovery Really Buys Your Self-Hosted DR Promise

CloudNativePG restored a 4.5TB Postgres database from a volume snapshot in about two minutes. Here is what that RTO number means for teams running tenant Postgres on their own Kubernetes fleets, and where object-store backups still carry the region-loss half of the promise.

self-hosting
Kubernetes
PaaS
cloud infrastructure
Coolify's 11 Critical CVEs and the Single-Maintainer Security Bill
·Dora Noda·9 min

Coolify's 11 Critical CVEs and the Single-Maintainer Security Bill

Coolify disclosed 11 critical flaws in January 2026 — seven scored CVSS 10.0 — and four more in July. What the CVE record, the rolling-beta patch train, and a three-person team mean for anyone running production behind the popular self-hosted PaaS.

self-hosting
PaaS
security
infrastructure
Coolify's v5 Blueprint Is Public: Does Its Agent-and-Broker Rewrite Narrow the Fleet Gap With Cluster API?
·Dora Noda·10 min

Coolify's v5 Blueprint Is Public: Does Its Agent-and-Broker Rewrite Narrow the Fleet Gap With Cluster API?

Coolify published its accepted v5 architecture — control plane, gRPC broker, Rust host agent — alongside 62,145 stars and a weekly v4 patch train. A seven-primitive scoreboard shows which fleet gaps the rewrite closes and why machine lifecycle still separates it from Cluster API.

self-hosting
PaaS
infrastructure
scalability
Coolify vs Dokploy on a $5 Hetzner Box: 7-Day Benchmark Numbers — and What Breaks When You Outgrow the Box
·Dora Noda·10 min

Coolify vs Dokploy on a $5 Hetzner Box: 7-Day Benchmark Numbers — and What Breaks When You Outgrow the Box

A 7-day head-to-head on a $5 Hetzner VPS puts Dokploy idle RAM at 0.8 GB against Coolify v4.0's 1.2 GB, with build times tied — then the numbers stop mattering. The 1–3 vs 4+ app decision rule, what Coolify's MCP server changed, and the second-server ceiling neither panel crosses.

self-hosting
PaaS
Model Context Protocol
cost-optimization
+1
When Will EKS, AKS, and GKE Actually Support Kubernetes 1.37?
·Dora Noda·10 min

When Will EKS, AKS, and GKE Actually Support Kubernetes 1.37?

Kubernetes 1.37 shipped August 26, but EKS still doesn't offer it, AKS won't GA it until October, and only GKE has a build. A date-by-date scoreboard of managed version lag — and what the wait costs teams that want scale-to-zero, rootless kubelets, and native histograms now.

Kubernetes
self-hosting
cloud infrastructure
cost-optimization
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