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5 Cloud Hosting Resources Worth Your Time (Week of Oct 11, 2026)

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5 Cloud Hosting Resources Worth Your Time (Week of Oct 11, 2026)

  1. Your PaaS Bill Lied to You (Medium, June 2026) — The most honest PaaS cost breakdown I’ve seen. Covers real pricing for Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel with actual invoices and migration stories. Essential reading before picking a platform.
    🔗 https://medium.com/@allahverdiyev.tural/your-paas-bill-lied-to-you-the-real-cost-of-railway-render-fly-io-and-vercel-in-2026-8b74074014ce

  2. PaaS Comparison 2026: Railway, Render, Fly.io vs Vercel — Detailed pricing maps, feature comparison, and real migration experiences from teams that switched. Includes the hidden line items most reviews miss.
    🔗 https://www.birjob.com/blog/paas-comparison-railway-render-fly-vercel-2026

  3. Fly.io Pricing Deep Dive (Kuberns, 2026) — Every hidden line item documented: inter-region networking (billed at Machine rates since Feb 2026), volume snapshots (since Jan 2026), IPv4 costs, egress rates by region. The reference for Fly.io bill modeling.
    🔗 https://kuberns.com/blogs/flyio-pricing/

  4. Render Pricing (Official, Updated April 2026) — Flat workspace pricing with no seat fees. Pro at $25/mo unlimited members, Scale at $499/mo. Legacy per-seat workspaces auto-converted August 2026. The most transparent pricing page in the category.
    🔗 https://render.com/pricing

  5. Coolify: Self-Hosted PaaS on Your Own VPS — Run your own Vercel/Heroku alternative on a $20/month Hetzner VPS. Supports Docker, static sites, databases, Git push deployments, preview deployments, and automatic SSL. Zero lock-in, full control.
    🔗 https://coolify.io/

  6. Cloudflare Workers Pricing (Official) — $5/month for 10M requests, then $0.50/million. Free bandwidth (Cloudflare’s edge network). The only platform where a viral traffic spike doesn’t bankrupt you.
    🔗 https://workers.cloudflare.com/pricing/

  7. Vercel Pricing (Official, 2026) — Hobby plan now explicitly non-commercial. Pro at $20/seat/mo with per-product overages. Enterprise starts ~$20-25K/yr. The pricing page itself is worth studying for how they structure usage-based billing.
    🔗 https://vercel.com/pricing

Full deep dive on Cloud Hosting (Issue #5):
🔗 https://maadhesh.substack.com/p/issue-5
🔗 https://dev.to/maadhesh_d14697cfa10adfab/deep-dive-cloud-hosting-2026

Next week: Database Tools — Supabase vs Neon vs Turso vs PlanetScale. Subscribe for 2x/day delivery:
📬 https://maadhesh.substack.com

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