1732 posts tagged with "Self-Hosting"
Running your own PaaS and infrastructure on machines you own
Theo Graded the Platforms. Fly.io Answered. Both Missed the Exit Costs
Theo Browne questioned whether Fly.io survives the year; CEO Kurt Mackey answered with a fundraise, a new CEO, and a pivot to agent computers. Pricing the same terabyte on six platforms — and scoring who pays when platforms pivot — shows what tier lists miss and where a €10 Hetzner box lands.
PowerDNS as a Self-Hosted Route53: What Owning Your DNS Layer Really Costs
At 1,000 tenant domains Route53 bills around $620 a month while a two-server PowerDNS setup costs $10–55 plus an ops bill of monitoring, patching, and DNSSEC key ceremonies. Here is the full math and the rule for when owning your DNS layer pays.
Preview Databases Are the Part of Preview Environments Nobody Demos
Northflank's Railway-alternatives matrix concedes the awkward half of preview environments: Coolify and Fly.io need custom configuration for per-PR databases, and only teardown automation keeps forgotten previews from compounding. How seed time, snapshot restore, and per-PR isolation decide whether previews are shippable — and the self-hosted recipe that closes the gap.
When Railpack Detects Wrong: What an Angular SSR App Served as a Static Caddy Site Teaches About Builder Autodetect
Railway's Railpack builder classified an Angular SSR app as a static site and served it through Caddy — a green deploy of the wrong architecture. The before-and-after Dockerfile fix, why fail-open autodetect keeps causing outages, and the five detect-time log lines a self-hosted PaaS should emit.
Red Hat OpenShift AI Bakes In MCP — and the Bottleneck Moves to Discovery at 10,000 Servers
Red Hat is baking MCP into OpenShift AI as governed infrastructure — Playground validation, a verified catalog, a lifecycle operator, and a gateway. Why the agent tooling gap moved from protocol to discovery at 10,000+ servers, and a six-item checklist for a self-hosted platform's own MCP server.
Your Coding Agent Runs npm install Unattended. Refuse Is the Open-Source Gate That Says No.
Refuse is an open-source, self-hostable gate that blocks known-vulnerable package installs across 18 package managers before anything hits disk — including installs your coding agent runs. Here is how it works, where it belongs in a PaaS build pipeline, and what it cannot catch.
Render Cut Median Builds From 38s to 21s: What Matching It on a Hetzner Builder You Own Actually Costs
Render's August 2026 changelog cut median builds from 38 to 21 seconds with faster disks. Priced three ways against a $10/month Hetzner builder — Render, Railway, and Depot-metered rates — with breakeven volumes, cache strategy, and the burst caveat.
Render's Agentic Playbook, Read as a Platform Spec: What the Platform Ships vs What Stays Your Code
Render's July 2026 agentic-applications playbook draws an honest line between what a deploy platform ships — queues, retries, per-run history — and what stays in your code: idempotency, compensation, and join policy. This post reads that line as a spec for any Render-compatible API.
Rootless Kubelet Hits Beta in Kubernetes 1.37: What Dropping Host Root Changes for Multi-Tenant Nodes (and What Still Needs It)
Kubernetes 1.37 promotes rootless kubelet mode to beta, so node components run as a non-root host user and breakouts stay confined to one account. Here is the blast-radius accounting, the full compatibility inventory, and a one-pool pilot playbook for Hetzner fleets.