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AWS App Runner is closed to new customers. Here is where to go
AWS stopped taking new App Runner customers on 30 April 2026. What App Runner costs, what ECS Express Mode changes, and the alternatives worth moving to.
Replit alternatives in 2026: pick the part you want to replace
Replit is three products in one: a browser IDE, an AI agent, and a host. Nine alternatives compared, split by which part you actually want to replace — and what it costs to run the result in production.
The best PaaS providers in 2026, compared on real prices
Ten platform-as-a-service providers compared on their published August 2026 rates, background workers, first-party databases and lock-in — including the two that stopped taking new customers this year.
Container as a service, with the real 2026 prices
Container as a service runs your container without you running the servers. What CaaS means, how it differs from PaaS, FaaS and IaaS, and what nine providers charge in August 2026.
Heroku alternatives in 2026, after the feature freeze
Salesforce put Heroku into sustaining engineering on 6 February 2026 — support and security, no new features. Eight alternatives compared on price, workers, add-ons and how much of a migration each one really is.
E2B sandboxes: what they cost, and what else runs agent code
E2B bills $0.0504 per vCPU-hour and $0.0162 per GiB-hour, per second, with $100 of one-time free credit. What E2B sandboxes do, where the tier limits bite, and how Daytona, Modal and Lizard Sandboxes compare on published rates.
Kubernetes alternatives for teams without a platform team
A managed Kubernetes control plane costs $73 a month per cluster on Amazon EKS before a single pod runs, and the real bill is the person who owns it. Seven alternatives compared — Nomad, Docker Swarm, Kamal, ECS, Cloud Run, Coolify and managed platforms — with the case for keeping Kubernetes.
How to deploy a Django app on a VPS
The complete Django VPS deploy on Ubuntu 26.04: Postgres, gunicorn under systemd with a socket, nginx, TLS with certbot, static files, migrations and a Celery worker — plus an honest look at what you own afterwards.
Python app hosting in 2026: Django, Flask and FastAPI
Where to host a Python app in 2026: eight platforms compared on price, WSGI vs ASGI, background workers and Postgres — with the exact start command Django, Flask and FastAPI each need.
Firebase alternatives in 2026: eight options, with prices
Firestore bills $0.06 per 100,000 reads, and Firebase never gives you a server process. Eight alternatives compared — Supabase, Appwrite, Convex, PocketBase, Nhost, Amplify, and running your own backend.
Google Antigravity: how to deploy your app to production
Antigravity writes the app, runs it, and tests it in a browser. It does not host it. Here is what production actually needs, and the two prompts that get an Antigravity app live without touching a terminal.
Deploy your app from Claude Code in one command
Claude Code writes the app - but where does it actually run? Lizard is the deployment platform built for exactly this moment: one command, real production infrastructure, and logs your agent can read and act on.
The Vercel alternative built for AI coding agents
Vercel has run containers since Ship 2026. It still does not run processes. Lizard vs Vercel for AI coding agents, with August 2026 prices line by line.
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