1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
TurboFieldfare Fits a 26B MoE Model in 2GB of RAM: What SSD-Streamed Experts Mean for Your Cheapest Inference Node
TurboFieldfare runs Gemma 4 26B-A4B in ~2GB of RAM by streaming 4-bit experts from SSD — 5–6 tok/s on an M2 Air, 31–35 on an M5 Pro. The per-token byte math behind those numbers, and how to size a €49 NVMe box as your cheapest inference tier.
Your .com Renews at $10.97 in November: The Tenant Domain Bill Your PaaS Can't Automate Away
Verisign raises wholesale .com prices to $10.97 on November 1, 2026, while uncapped registries reprice at will — .info is up 75% since 2019. Here is what tenants actually pay per domain, what a self-hosted PaaS automates to zero, and the registrar bill no platform can touch.
Whole GPU or Nothing Is Over: Wiring DRA GPU Scheduling on a Bare-Metal Cluster API Fleet
Kubernetes' device-plugin era of whole-GPU-or-nothing scheduling is ending. What WG Device Management standardized with DRA, what coarse allocation costs a small bare-metal fleet, and the exact checklist a Cluster API fleet needs before tenants can deploy with a GPU.
Toward a World Where Builds Don't Exist: What Railway's VM-Powered Thesis Gives Up in Provenance
Railway wants a world where builds don't exist and your app is just live. But the build produces the digest, SBOM, provenance, and rollback artifact that incident response and the EU's new reporting rules depend on — here is the full inventory of what disappears with it.
From $7,000 on AWS to $780 on Hetzner: An Honest Accounting of an 89% Cost Cut
A team swapped a $7,000+ AWS Kubernetes bill for four €179 Hetzner servers — then listed what the $780 doesn't cover. A line-by-line audit of managed control planes, load balancing, backups, and on-call, plus the decision rule for when the 89% saving is real.
Buildpacks RFC 329 Would Make `web_worker` an Illegal Process Type — and That's the Point
Buildpacks RFC 329 would restrict process types to lowercase DNS labels, outlawing underscores, periods, and uppercase letters. Here is the exact rule, why the rejected 253-character hostname alternative lost, and what the migration costs buildpack authors and platforms.
cert-manager vs Gardener vs certctl: What Tenant TLS Really Costs at 10, 100, and 1,000 Custom Domains
A head-to-head comparison of cert-manager, Gardener cert-management, and certctl for per-tenant custom-domain TLS, with the rate-limit math and renewal checklist for fleets from 10 to 1,000 domains.
The 2026 CI Runner Market in One Table: When a $50 Hetzner Box Beats Every Meter
GitHub's 2026 price cuts, Avrea's July benchmarks, and ci-cost's eight-vendor pricing put the CI-runner market into one legible table. A worked build-vs-buy sheet with crossover points showing when owned Hetzner builders beat metered vendors — and where metered GPUs still win.
Cloudflare Deprecated McpAgent: What a Stateless MCP Handler Buys (and Costs) a Deploy-From-Chat Server
Cloudflare's Agents SDK v0.20.0 deprecated McpAgent in favor of a stateless createMcpHandler, tracking MCP spec 2026-07-28. Here is what dropping the per-session Durable Object buys, where multi-step deploy state moves instead, and how to migrate without breaking older clients.