1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Your PaaS Is Now an Install Flag: What One-Click Installers Assume About Where Self-Hosters Start
Contabo, hlab, and VPSBox now ship single-box PaaS panels as one-click installs — and every one of them optimizes the first deploy while skipping upgrades, backups, and the second machine.
Every Heroku Exit Guide Crowns Its Author: What Puter's Top-5 Left Out
Puter's 2026 Heroku-alternatives guide ranks itself first and leaves Railway, Fly.io, and the self-hosted row off the page. A claim-by-claim check of what holds up, plus the cost table the guide never prices.
Don't Trust It With Production Data Yet: The 2026 Managed-Postgres Gap Across Railway, Render, and Fly.io
Railway's one-click HA Postgres still carries a don't-trust-production-data warning, Render's PITR-backed managed Postgres stands alone, and Fly.io stays deliberately unmanaged — a like-for-like feature and cost scoreboard for teams leaving Heroku, plus the five-row checklist a self-hosted database must clear.
Railway Turned Its CLI MCP Server Into a Proxy: One Credential for Every Agent, and an Audit Trail You Can No Longer See
Railway's September 2026 changelog flips railway mcp from a bundled local server to a proxy for its hosted MCP endpoint. Here is the three-way tradeoff — local vs proxy-to-hosted vs self-hosted — across credentials, logging, scope enforcement, and audit ownership, plus a decision rule for production agent access.
Railway vs Render vs Fly.io vs a €4 Hetzner Box: A Line-by-Line Bill for the Same Node.js + Postgres App
A line-by-line recompute of the same Node.js + Postgres bill on Railway, Render, Fly.io, and a flat-rate Hetzner box — plus the egress, geography, and idle-workload sensitivity that decides which metering shape actually wins.
Six Coding Agents on a Private Network: Threat-Model the Credential Blast Radius Before You Copy Railway's Sandbox
Railway's June 2026 sandboxes preinstall six coding agents with private-network reach to production data. Four Kubernetes controls — per-session identities, default-deny egress, approval-gated mutations, and auditable teardown — keep the convenience without the nine-second-wipe blast radius.
Render's New Memory-Optimized Plans Repriced: A Steady Web Service Bill vs a Fixed Hetzner Node
Render's August 26 compute-plan overhaul added 15+ memory-optimized tiers without touching legacy prices. A line-by-line reprice of a steady $79 web-service stack, the RAM-heavy workloads that got $25–$100/month cheaper, and the $10 fixed-node counterfactual.
Render Killed Per-Seat Pricing: A Worked Five-Person Bill for Railway vs Render vs a $19 Hetzner Box
Render's April 2026 restructure ended per-seat billing, so seats cost $0 on both Railway and Render. A line-by-line bill for a five-engineer staging-plus-production setup on each, plus the $19 self-hosted counterfactual.
Run Claude Code and Codex on a Remote VPS Without Going Broke: 2026 Provider Rankings After Hetzner's Price Hike
Hetzner's June 2026 price hike killed the default self-hosted agent box. A priced VPS ranking for always-on Claude Code and Codex sessions across a 15x price spread, plus the idle-RAM breakeven math that decides when flat boxes beat metered sandboxes.