1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Koyeb vs Sevalla in Late 2026: Serverless Scale-to-Zero vs $5 Instances vs a Flat Hetzner Box
The same small production app — web service, Postgres, Redis, 100 GB egress — priced on Koyeb, Sevalla, and a Hetzner box: ~$184 vs ~$209 vs ~$7 a month, plus the workload shapes where scale-to-zero beats flat instances and the crossover that flips the winner.
Kubernetes Gets Its Own Agent Sandbox: What the Sandbox CRD Means for a Self-Hosted PaaS
Kubernetes SIG Apps shipped a Sandbox CRD for running AI agents as isolated, stateful workloads. Here is what warm pools, snapshot resume, and pluggable gVisor/Kata isolation mean for teams running their own PaaS, and the gaps to track before adopting it.
The Kubernetes Integration Tax, Itemized: What Prometheus, Cilium, and the Rest Really Cost a Two-Person Platform Team
An itemized accounting of self-hosted Kubernetes: what Cilium, Prometheus, TLS, GitOps, backups, upgrades, and policy cost a two-person team in setup and quarterly maintenance hours, converted to dollars and set against a $23–54 hosted PaaS bill.
Kubernetes v1.37 'Garhwal' for Platform Operators: Storage Version Migration GA and a Stable Metrics API
Kubernetes v1.37 graduates built-in Storage Version Migration and the stable metrics.k8s.io/v1 API. What each change means for self-hosted fleets, which runbook steps disappear, and the ordered checklist for your next chained upgrade.
Node Lifecycle Conditions Land in Kubernetes v1.37: One Status Channel for the Drain Dance
Kubernetes v1.37 introduces five well-known Node conditions that replace blind drain-state inference with a shared status channel. What DrainInProgress, Drained, and the maintenance conditions change for Cluster API remediation, and the ownership discipline your fleet needs first.
Node Readiness Controller Goes Alpha: Declarative Taint Gating for GPU and Driver Readiness
Kubelet marks GPU nodes Ready before their drivers finish installing, and pods pay for the gap. The alpha Node Readiness Controller adds declarative per-pool taint gating — here is the gate YAML, the dry-run adoption ladder, and whether a self-hosted fleet should run it now.
Railway's Second Managed HA Database Changes the Migration Math: MySQL HA Goes GA
Railway's MySQL HA went GA five months after HA Postgres. This breakdown works the cost math for renting both managed databases versus running both on owned hardware — and names the three things the HA checkbox still leaves unanswered.
Render's MCP Server Grows Teeth: OAuth Plus trigger_deploy Set the Agent-Deploy Bar
Render's July 2026 changelog added OAuth login and a trigger_deploy tool to its MCP server. This breakdown tables the full agent-deploy surface, names where Render's own docs stop, and lists what a self-hosted PaaS must ship to match it.
Restic vs Kopia in 2026: Which Backup Engine to Run for Encrypted Tenant Backups on S3-Compatible Storage
Restic and Kopia compared on published throughput, memory, repo size, encryption, and Velero alignment — with a decision guide for encrypted tenant backups on storage you own.