App Engine Standard is a runtime contract, not a blank server
Google App Engine can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when…
AWS App Runner: simple deployment, complicated edges for stateful OSS
AWS App Runner can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a…
AWS Lambda versus the open-source app that expects a server
AWS Lambda can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS…
Azure App Service versus a Linux VM for open-source software
Azure App Service can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when…
CapRover and the difference between easy deploys and easy operations
CapRover can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Cloud Run is brilliant compute and awkward hosting for stateful OSS
Google Cloud Run can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a…
Cloudflare Workers are not a general Linux host
Cloudflare Workers can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when…
Coolify makes a VPS feel like a PaaS—but the VPS still exists
Coolify can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
DigitalOcean App Platform or a Droplet for open source?
DigitalOcean can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS…
Dokku gives you a tiny Heroku; you still own production
Dokku can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is simpler.
Fly Volumes and the hidden work behind stateful open source
Fly.io can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Heroku's ephemeral filesystem versus file-backed open source apps
Heroku can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Netlify Functions versus conventional self-hosted software
Netlify can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Railway backups are not a complete disaster-recovery plan
Railway can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Railway volumes for open source apps: convenient until replicas matter
Railway volumes simplify persistent storage for one service, but replicas and attachment boundaries change scaling, failover, and recovery decisions.
The real cost of hosting open source on Render Free
Render can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Render persistent disks solve storage—and create a scaling tradeoff
Render persistent disks make state durable, while attachment and scaling constraints change failover, replica placement, backups, and recovery.
Self-hosting Supabase: the dashboard is not the hard part
Supabase can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Vercel Functions are not tiny VPSes: limits that surprise self-hosters
Vercel can deploy open-source software quickly, but its runtime and storage model create tradeoffs. Here is where the friction appears and when a VPS is…
Why Vercel is often the wrong home for stateful open-source software
Stateful open-source software often conflicts with Vercel's function lifecycle and filesystem model. Evaluate storage, workers, sockets, and recovery first.