1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
GitHub Actions Goes Down and So Do Your Deploys: Designing a Git-Push Deploy Path That Survives an August 2026-Style GitHub Outage
On August 6, 2026, a nine-hour GitHub Actions outage froze builds, webhooks, and Pages publishes — including teams on self-hosted runners. This guide maps the blast radius and lays out a five-piece git-push deploy path that keeps shipping when the forge goes dark.
Harbor's CVSS 9.4 Default Password: How to Tell If Your Registry Is Exposed, and the First-Boot Rule That Prevents the Next One
Harbor 2.15.0 and below ships with a working admin/Harbor12345 default worth CVSS 9.4. A five-minute exposure audit, the rotate-first fix order, what to hunt if it was reachable, and the first-boot rule your own platform should steal.
hcloud-cloud-controller-manager's Experimental Server Cache: Fewer Hetzner API Calls, and the Staleness Question It Reopens
hcloud-cloud-controller-manager v1.32.0 added an experimental server cache that collapses per-Node Hetzner API lookups into one snapshot per window — and v1.33.0 fixed the stale not-found it shipped with. Here is the worked call math against the 3,600-request hourly budget, the staleness trade, and the upgrade checklist for a CAPH fleet.
Heroku Alternatives in 2026: Auditing the Render vs Railway vs Fly.io Rankings, Priced to the Dollar
Render, Railway, and Fly.io top every Heroku-alternatives ranking in 2026. This audit stress-tests each platform's claims against a real Heroku exit and prices the same workload four ways, including a flat-rate Hetzner baseline.
Heroku Wants $140+/mo for Your Django App. Fly.io Does It for $15–$35: Pricing a Django Exit in 2026
A production Django stack — web, Celery worker, scheduler, Postgres, Redis — bills $140+/mo on Heroku against $15–$35 on Fly.io. A line-by-line recompute across Render, Railway, Fly.io, and flat-rate Hetzner, plus the migration costs and sensitivity cases that move the ranking.
Heroku to Kubernetes With Near-Zero Downtime: What Migration Services Sell vs. What the Cutover Requires
A service-by-service read of Qovery's modernization roundup: consultancies and hyperscalers run the cutover, platforms own day two, and the only honest downtime number is a minutes-long database write pause — plus what the same stack costs on owned hardware.
Kubernetes 1.37 Makes HPA Scale-to-Zero Default: Do You Still Need KEDA or Knative?
Kubernetes 1.37 graduates HPA scale-to-zero to beta and enables it by default. What minReplicas 0 replaces, the two gaps that keep KEDA and Knative in the stack, and a worked cost comparison for idle tenants.
Istio's Agentgateway Gambit: The Service Mesh Is Coming for Your Agent Traffic
Istio's experimental agentgateway support puts MCP tool calls, agent-to-agent sessions, and LLM routing inside the service mesh. What the KubeCon EU 2026 announcement changes for platform teams, and how close it is to production-ready.
Komodo vs Coolify vs Dokploy: What GPL-3.0 With No Server Cap Actually Buys You
Komodo manages unlimited servers under GPL-3.0 with no paid tier — RBAC and 2FA included. A head-to-head with Coolify, Dokploy, and Portainer on what that license guarantees, what it costs, and where manage-the-boxes stops short of provisioning.