1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Three PaaSes, Ten Days, Nine Incidents: What Vercel, Fly.io, and Render's July 2026 Status Pages Show Side by Side
Vercel, Fly.io, and Render posted nine status-page incidents between July 17 and 27, 2026 — from unrecoverable telemetry loss to a worldwide API outage. A side-by-side read of what broke, whether the failures share a cause, and the honest self-hosted counterpoint.
Cursor ($29.3B), Lovable ($6.6B), Replit ($9B): The Vibe-Coding Giants All Rent Their Last Mile
Cursor, Lovable, and Replit raised at a combined $45B on the same promise — spec in, running app out. A side-by-side of what each platform actually runs for the deploy step, and why the runtime underneath is where the next moat gets built.
Zeabur Calls Itself an AI DevOps Engineer. We Read the Fine Print.
Zeabur rebranded as an AI DevOps engineer with Agent Skills for Claude Code and Codex — but a head-to-head scorecard against Render's official MCP server shows the marketing is ahead of the authority. A grounded look at what each platform actually lets agents do.
A2A Hit 1.0 and Moved In With MCP: What Agent-to-Agent Handoff Actually Adds to Deploy-from-Chat
A2A reached 1.0 in March 2026 and joined MCP under the Agentic AI Foundation in August. Here is what agent-to-agent handoff concretely adds on top of a one-agent MCP deploy server, the exact extra surface a self-hosted PaaS must expose to support it, and when that work belongs on the roadmap.
Before Agents Create Their Own Compute: A Capacity Budget for Agent Sandboxes on Kubernetes
Agent-callable sandbox creation turns capacity into a control-plane decision. A worked budget for a three-node Hetzner fleet: warm-pool reserve, 32 claimable sandboxes, TTL defaults, per-tenant quotas, and admission rules that stop one runaway loop.
Backstage vs Port vs the PaaS Itself: What a Golden Path Actually Costs on Five Boxes, Not Five Hundred
Backstage, Port, or the PaaS deploy contract itself? A number-backed cost comparison of the three ways to give developers a golden path on a small self-hosted fleet — and the exact triggers for when a real portal becomes worth it.
Block's Buzz Topped GitHub Trending: What a Nostr Hive-Mind Gets Right (and Skips) Versus an MCP Deploy Surface
Block's Buzz hit #1 on GitHub trending with a Nostr-based workspace where humans and agents share one room. Here is what its chat-first model solves for multi-agent coordination — and why a deploy-from-chat platform still needs a typed, scoped MCP tool surface for production changes.
Goose Under the Linux Foundation: The Neutral Reference Client for Deploy-from-Chat
Block donated its Goose agent to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, alongside MCP and AGENTS.md. Here is why a PaaS team should certify its deploy and rollback MCP tools against Goose instead of one vendor's CLI — with a versioned deploy recipe to prove it.
Caddy Rotates Your ECH Keys Now: What It Takes to Hide Every Tenant's SNI Behind Shared IPs
Caddy 2.11.1 rotates Encrypted Client Hello keys automatically. Here is what it takes to hide every tenant's SNI behind shared IPs — the config, the DNS plumbing, and the gaps that remain.