1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Your Database Backup Passed and Your App Still Won't Restore: What Portabase's Docker Volume Support Means for Self-Hosted PaaS Backups
Portabase promoted Docker volumes to first-class backup targets alongside Postgres and MySQL. The tool is single-host, but the thesis ports to any fleet: schedule, retain, and restore-test database and volume state as one problem.
BYOC Bills Twice: Porter's $20M Bet on Your Cloud Account vs Owning the Bare Metal
Porter charges a PaaS meter on top of your own AWS bill. We itemize the double bill for a typical team workload and compare it against the fixed price of owned Hetzner bare metal.
Railway's $100M Series B: What VC Runway Buys Against Hardware You Own
Railway raised $100M to scale AI-native cloud infrastructure. A line-by-line comparison of metered hosted bills against owned hardware, plus the stay-or-migrate checklist the raise forces every team to run.
Railway Runs Your Agents Now: What Cloud Agents on 24/7 VMs Cost vs a Self-Hosted Sandbox
Railway's Cloud Agents put Claude Code and Codex on metered 24/7 VMs with deploy tools built into every session. An always-on agent costs about $245 a month on Railway versus $19 on owned hardware — but utilization, the phone-resume UX, and the lock-in shape matter more than the meter.
Railway Put Postgres HA, PITR, and PgBouncer in the Terminal — and Gave Agents the Keys
Railway's September 2026 CLI release brings Postgres HA, point-in-time recovery, and connection pooling to the terminal with JSON output. Here is how each operation compares to its CloudNativePG equivalent on infrastructure you own, and what it means now that database lifecycles are APIs agents call.
Railway Skips the Post-Merge Rebuild: Promote the Exact Preview Image to Production With BuildKit Digests
Railway's Skipped Builds deploys the already-tested PR image to production instead of rebuilding after merge. A self-hosted version of the same trick: commit-to-digest provenance, BuildKit cache policy, and digest-pinned deploys.
Render Killed the Pasted AWS Key. Your Self-Hosted PaaS Is Now on the Clock.
Render's July 2026 OIDC releases made keyless auth to AWS, Anthropic, and OpenAI a GA platform feature. Here's the trust-chain machinery behind it and the two concrete paths — cluster-issuer federation or SPIFFE/SPIRE — for matching it on machines you own.
iptables Is Quietly Taxing Every New Connection on Your Fleet: The nftables Performance Case, With Numbers
Kubernetes 1.37 started warning clusters that never chose a kube-proxy mode, and the default flips to nftables by 1.40. The benchmark numbers behind retiring iptables, what the switch actually costs, and a decision rule for self-hosted fleets.
Keyless Signing Won: What Rekor v2 and cosign v3 Mean for Verifying Every Image at Admission
Rekor v2, cosign v3, and Open Component Model's breaking 2026 releases made keyless signing the default. What identity-based provenance means for verifying every container image at admission — and where the guarantees stop.