The three providers most developers actually deploy Node apps on, compared at the entry tier, then judged by what a Node workload really needs: CPU and RAM per dollar, egress limits, IPv4 policy, and reach. Plus the Node version to install and what to check before you push.…
Read more →Two open-source, self-hosted PaaS platforms for your VPS, head to head: architecture, install, builds, scaling, pricing and licensing. The decision axis is not features - it’s how each one thinks about a cluster.…
Read more →The three most-picked entry clouds, head to head at the 1 vCPU / 1 GiB tier. Plan specs, network reach, developer experience, managed add-ons, and the honest verdict for each workload.…
Read more →In mid-October 2026, several Show HN launches landed on the same axis: developers tired of PaaS bills that outgrow their projects, and lightweight deploy tools that don’t drag a Docker control panel onto the box. The recurring economics lesson: a handful of cheap VPSs beats a multi-provider PaaS stack on price - the missing piece was never the hardware, it’s the workflow. This article checks the actual prices on official pricing pages, walks through what a move really costs and what it gives up, and describes five tools for one-command deployment to your own VPS: Server Compass, OneDeploy, thevibehosting, Quicklify and docklift. This is deliberately not another Coolify-vs-Dokploy piece - we covered the heavy Docker-PaaS category there. Those platforms run a Docker stack on your server 24/7; October’s wave goes the other way - deploy to a plain Linux VPS without running a control plane at all. …
Read more →The two most common answers to ‘which VPS should I deploy to’ are now very different animals. Hetzner is cheaper per gigabyte and includes a huge amount of egress, but its cloud is currently hard to order and it has no managed databases or object storage in the US. DigitalOcean costs more per core but ships a finished managed ecosystem, US regions, and per-second billing. This page compares them on the tiers you actually deploy to and gives a verdict per workload.…
Read more →Hetzner Cloud in 2026 is a different animal than the old ‘cheapest VPS in Europe’ story. Prices rose twice this year, ARM is no longer the budget pick, and the cheapest line is temporarily off sale. Here’s the current catalog, the CX23 vs CAX11 math, and what to actually order for a Node.js app, WordPress, Docker, or a database.…
Read more →Vultr now sells managed LLM inference by the token on the same account as your VPS. Here’s how its Serverless Inference pricing lines up against renting a Vultr/DigitalOcean GPU and running vLLM yourself, and against calling the OpenAI API - with real prices and no invented benchmarks.…
Read more →OVH started billing Gen-3 (B3/C3/R3) local storage and public IPv4 separately on October 1, 2026. Here’s how to compute the real monthly cost of an instance, why the bill went up 1.4–21.9%, and how to get part of it back.…
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