1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
450+ MCP Servers Catalogued and Quality-Scored Daily: What the Ecosystem Census Says About the Tool Sprawl Your Deploy Platform Inherits
A daily census grades 453 MCP servers an average of 16.3 out of 100. Here is what that number means for platform teams, the security gap the score does not cover, and a bless-or-block rubric for governing tenant agent tools.
MCP Bets H2 2026 on Server Cards: What Your Registry-Less Server Must Hand-Roll Today
The July 2026 MCP spec shipped stateless transport and a mandatory server/discover RPC but left pre-connect Server Cards experimental. Here is the concrete manifest, capability advertisement, and trust signaling a registry-less deploy-from-chat server builds today so the eventual card format is a migration, not a rewrite.
Your Agent Doesn't Need Your API Key: What Qovery's Infrastructure-MCP Play Proves About Governed Tool Interfaces
Qovery's infrastructure-MCP writeup defines the governed alternative to pasting API keys into agents: scoped per-tool authority, server-side budget caps, and a per-call audit trail. What that boundary contains, why it became a product category in 2026, and what self-hosting it on your own machines requires.
Deploy From Chat: What Coolify, Arcade, and Azure APIM Prove About MCP Servers for PaaS Ops
Coolify's community MCP bridge, Arcade's 8,000-tool OAuth runtime, and Azure APIM's REST-to-MCP exposure prove agents can deploy, roll back, and tail logs from chat. The protocol is the easy part — discovery, scoped credentials, and confused-deputy hardening decide whether an agent gets real authority.
Modal's $355M Series C Puts a Price on the Sandbox: What $0.33/Hour Per Agent Sandbox Really Costs vs Self-Hosted
Modal's $355M raise at a $4.65B valuation prices agent sandboxes as their own category. Working through the per-second meter against owned hardware puts the crossover at about 5% utilization — and memory-while-alive metering is the line item that decides it.
Netlify vs Vercel in 2026: Where the Pricing Actually Crosses Over (and What Self-Hosting Costs Instead)
Netlify charges a flat $20 while Vercel charges $20 per seat — but Vercel includes 1 TB of bandwidth against Netlify's ~150 GB. A worked 2026 crossover table for 1–20 person teams, plus what the same traffic costs on a flat-rate owned server.
That $5–10 Hetzner + Coolify Next.js Stack: A Line-by-Line Recompute Against Vercel, Railway, and Fly.io
A Next.js full-stack on Hetzner + Coolify for $5.50/month against $30–$80 on Vercel, Railway, and Fly.io at 2026 list rates — recomputed line by line, with the bandwidth sensitivity table and the ops overhead the flat price leaves out.
No Monthly Minimum: What Four Usage-Only PaaS Bills Cost at 10%, 50%, and 100% Utilization
Four platforms bill pure usage with no monthly minimum. Modeling Fly.io, Cloudflare Workers, Neon, and Northflank against the same workload shows usage billing wins below ~20% utilization — and a flat five-dollar Hetzner box wins above it.
Northflank vs Owning the Stack: What the 'Cloud-Native Coolify Alternative' Really Costs
Northflank pitches managed CI/CD, hosting, and databases as the cloud-native Coolify alternative. Pricing a typical small stack four ways shows $146 on Northflank Cloud against $33 for an owned Cluster API fleet — plus what the markup genuinely buys.