1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
France's Railway Runs on Cluster API: What SNCF's Monthly Zero-Drift Fleet Teaches a Self-Hosted PaaS
SNCF provisions Kubernetes clusters in 30 minutes and updates its whole fleet monthly with zero configuration drift — on infrastructure it owns. Here is the stack behind those numbers and which parts transfer to a small self-hosted fleet.
Sprites Meet MCP: How Fly.io Built Agent-Safe Sandboxed Deployment Environments
Fly.io's Sprites now speak MCP: agents get persistent Firecracker microVMs with 300ms checkpoints through sprites.dev/mcp. Here is the six-primitive checklist for agent-safe sandboxes, how E2B, Daytona, Modal, and Vercel compare, and what it takes to build the same on owned hardware.
Tau Skipped Kubernetes Entirely: What a Wasm-Native PaaS Gains — and Gives Up
Taubyte's Tau runs a self-hosted PaaS on WebAssembly and libp2p with zero Kubernetes. This comparison tables what deleting the control plane buys — sub-millisecond cold starts, no etcd — against what it forecloses: no Docker images, no operators, no GPU scheduling.
The $50K 'Skip Kubernetes' Claim, Audited Against Owned Hardware
A March 2026 essay claims skipping Kubernetes saves $50K a year. We audit the number line by line — managed control-plane fees and node markup versus a CAPH fleet on Hetzner — and find the real variable is tenant count.
Your PaaS Bill Lied to You: Run a Bill-Forensics Audit Before You Migrate
A developer budgeted $20 and opened a $286 PaaS bill. This six-step bill-forensics checklist audits Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel invoices line by line — new-since-signup charges, usage-scaled meters, seat math — before you decide to migrate or self-host.
Seven Agent Sandbox Vendors Shipped Snapshot by June 2026 — What Happens When a Differentiator Becomes Table Stakes
By June 2026, seven agent-sandbox vendors shipped snapshot and resume — but only three preserve running processes. A side-by-side comparison of what each one saves, what it costs underneath, and why memory resume is the hard part for self-hosted platforms.
Token Prices Fell 67% While Enterprise AI Spend Rose 13x: The Nine Cost Buckets FinOps X 2026 Says You're Not Metering
Token prices fell 67% in a year while enterprise AI spend rose 13-fold. FinOps X 2026's nine-bucket accounting explains the gap — and shows which costs a self-hosted fleet can turn from metered to fixed.
Your Build History Is Now a Line Item: What Appwrite's Metered Builds and Storage-Counted Deployments Cost a Team That Ships Often
Appwrite bills every build in GB-hours — failed builds included — and counts retained deployments against your storage allowance. A worked cost comparison for a team shipping 10 times a day, and what to set before your deploy cadence becomes a budget line.
Cilium 1.20 Retires Two More Boxes: TCP Routes, Gateway Auth, and the Case for a CNI-Run Fleet
Cilium 1.20 adds TCPRoute/UDPRoute and gateway ExternalAuth to its Gateway API support, closing the last gaps that kept small fleets running a separate ingress controller and auth proxy. Here is the consolidation map, the concrete migration costs, and where a service mesh still earns its keep.