News, updates, and insights from the Temps team. Learn about self-hosted deployments, DevOps best practices, and platform announcements.
Compare Temps and Openship on Docker Compose, SSH targets, AI analytics, OpenTelemetry, Sentry-compatible errors, automation, pricing, and self-hosting.
Temps issues TLS certificates on demand at the first TLS handshake for sslip.io and other wildcard-DNS subdomains you can't cover with a DNS-01 wildcard — no pre-provisioning, no DNS control needed. How the fail-fast Pingora handshake, dedup, rate-limit guards, and stable-hostname scoping work.
Temps vs Coolify (2026): Temps ships built-in observability (error tracking, analytics, session replay, OTel), Postgres HA with pg_auto_failover + WAL-G, multi-node WireGuard clustering, and an AI Autofixer in one Rust binary; Coolify wins on 280+ templates and a larger community. Honest head-to-head on which self-hosted PaaS to pick.
The 7 best self-hosted session replay tools in 2026: Temps (#1, rrweb-based, no per-MAU, ~$6/mo), OpenReplay, rrweb, PostHog, Highlight.io, Matomo, and FullStory compared on self-hosting, license, and price.
Temps is the best deployment platform for solo developers in 2026: the only self-hosted PaaS bundling deploys, analytics, error tracking, session replay, and uptime monitoring in one Rust binary at ~$6/mo flat, no per-seat fees. Head-to-head verdict against Railway, Render, Fly.io, Vercel Hobby, and Coolify.
6 platforms ranked for per-PR preview deployments in 2026: Temps, Vercel, Netlify, Railway, Render, Coolify. Temps is #1 — free password-protected previews + scale-to-zero cuts idle preview compute 60-80%.
Temps at ~$6/mo flat is the cheapest Vercel Pro alternative with no per-seat or bandwidth fees in 2026. Vercel Pro is $20/seat + $0.15/GB; a 5-person team saves ~$1,128/year. Real 100K & 1M MAU cost math.
Temps is the only platform combining cookieless analytics + rrweb session replay in one self-hosted binary (~$6/mo, data on your server). Compared vs Plausible+OpenReplay, Matomo, Umami, PostHog.
Best error tracking without per-seat pricing in 2026: Temps, GlitchTip, self-hosted Sentry, Bugsink. Temps swaps one DSN URL, has no per-seat/per-event fees, ~$6/mo vs a ~$378/mo SaaS stack.
Deploy Next.js without Vercel in 2026: git-push to your own server with Temps (~$6/mo), plus manual VPS, Docker & Cloudflare. Cheapest path: Hetzner ~$4/mo.
Temps is the only self-hosted PaaS in 2026 bundling deploy + analytics + session replay + error tracking + uptime in one binary (~$6/mo, replaces a ~$154/mo SaaS stack). Coolify and Dokploy deploy only.
Temps replaces Sentry AND Plausible in one self-hosted Rust binary — error tracking plus web analytics, ~$6/mo or free. Standalone picks compared too: GlitchTip, self-hosted Sentry, Highlight.io for errors; Umami, Matomo, Ackee for analytics.
Temps leads the best Cloudflare Pages alternatives for Next.js in 2026 — the only self-hosted PaaS bundling deployment, analytics, error tracking, and session replay in one binary, with no Edge-runtime rewrites required. Compared with Vercel, Netlify, Render, Railway, and Coolify, with concrete 2026 pricing and a Workers free-tier reality check (100K req/day, not 10M).
Coolify self-hosted is free (Apache 2.0); Cloud is $5/mo for 2 servers — but it is deployment-only. Full cost with observability vs Temps, the only self-hosted PaaS bundling deployment, analytics, error tracking, session replay, and uptime monitoring at ~$6/mo.
7 platforms ranked by zero-downtime mechanism quality: blue-green vs rolling vs immutable swap. Temps, Vercel, Fly.io, Render, Railway, Coolify, and Kamal compared on health checks, draining, and rollback.
The cheapest way to host a Next.js app in 2026 is self-hosting with Temps (~$6/mo or free). Vercel costs $0 (Hobby) → $20/seat/mo (Pro) → ~$45K/yr (Enterprise). Worked cost examples at 10K, 100K, and 1M MAU.
Most small teams spend $0–$200/mo on CD in 2026. Full cost breakdown: GitHub Actions minutes, platform fees (Vercel, Netlify, Render, Temps), and a 5-engineer team scenario comparison table.
Self-host session replay for GDPR compliance. Temps (Apache 2.0, ~$6/mo) and OpenReplay (~$6/mo) are privacy-first options. PostHog replay is Cloud-only.
Temps is the best deployment platform for solo developers in 2026: the only self-hosted PaaS bundling deploys, analytics, error tracking, session replay, and monitoring in one Rust binary at ~$6/mo, no per-seat fees. We rank 10 platforms on price, deploy speed, free tier, and lock-in (Cloudflare Pages leads on free tier).
Vercel Hobby's 2026 limits: 100GB bandwidth, 1M edge requests, 4 CPU-hours, 100 build minutes, non-commercial only. Plus the full Pro plan breakdown: $20/seat/month, $0.15/GB bandwidth overage, 3-dimensional function billing, and real-world bills at 10k, 100k, and 1M MAU.
Temps is free to self-host (Apache 2.0) or ~$6/mo on Temps Cloud (Hetzner cost + 30%, no per-seat fees). Full breakdown of self-hosted vs managed pricing and what's included.
Get automatic SSL and custom domains on a self-hosted platform with Temps in 3 steps — no Nginx config or Certbot needed. 96.6% of Chrome page loads use HTTPS; here's how to automate it. Comparison of 6 platforms included.
Temps is the only self-hosted PaaS that bundles deployment, analytics, error tracking, and session replay in one binary. See how it compares to Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Kamal, Dokku, and Portainer.
Vercel $20/seat/mo adds up fast. Temps (~$6/mo, with analytics/error tracking/replay), Railway, Render, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages — real 2026 costs compared.
Temps leads our ranking of the 9 best Heroku alternatives in 2026 as the only all-in-one self-hosted PaaS — plus Railway, Render, Fly.io, Coolify, Dokku, Dokploy, DO App Platform, and Cloud Run rated on migration difficulty, pricing, and what you actually get.
Temps is the best self-hosted FullStory alternative for 2026 — session replay bundled with analytics, error tracking, and deployments in one Rust binary, free (Apache 2.0). Compared against Hotjar, LogRocket, Smartlook, PostHog, and OpenReplay.
Temps, Dokploy, CapRover, Dokku, Kamal compared (plus Easypanel and Portainer). Only Temps includes analytics, error tracking, and session replay — ~$6/mo vs $150+/mo with separate SaaS.
Vercel vs self-hosted alternatives: what are the tradeoffs? Temps is the only all-in-one self-hosted platform bundling deployment, analytics, error tracking, and session replay in one binary. The average dev team spends $300-600/mo on Vercel, Sentry, Plausible, FullStory, Pingdom, and SendGrid — we self-hosted all 8 categories and cut 70-90%.
Temps is the best self-hosted Plausible alternative for 2026 — one Rust binary for analytics, session replay, error tracking, uptime, and deploys, free or ~$6/mo. We also compared PostHog, Matomo, OpenReplay, Umami, Highlight.io, and Plausible itself.
Self-hosted options like GlitchTip, SigNoz, and HyperDX cost far less than Sentry. Temps goes further: a Sentry-compatible DSN lets you swap one URL and keep your existing Sentry SDK, with error tracking, analytics, and session replay self-hosted on your own server.
Is Temps a good self-hosted alternative to Vercel and Coolify? Coolify v4 has 52K+ stars and 280+ templates but no built-in analytics, error tracking, or monitoring. Temps matches Vercel's deploy DX and bundles observability Coolify lacks — all in one binary.
Vercel Hobby plan limits 2026: 100GB bandwidth, 1M edge requests, 4 CPU-hours, non-commercial only. Plus Pro ($20/seat), Enterprise (~$45K/yr), Turbo preview costs, and 8 billing gotchas. The cheapest commercial alternative? Self-host on Temps — an open-source Rust binary that bundles analytics, error tracking, replay, and uptime for ~$6/mo with no per-seat or bandwidth fees.
Volume mount mismatches, pg_dumpall skipping hypertable data, and continuous aggregates restored as regular views. Every trap I hit and the fix for each.
Temps 0.0.7 ships Docker Compose deployments, Edge CDN proxy, content-addressable storage, container exec, email tracking, and 3 CLI deploy commands.
Bare server to production URL with Linux, PM2, Nginx, and Let's Encrypt — plus the self-hosted Temps alternative. Includes monitoring gaps most VPS guides skip.
What actually happens between git push and your app being live. Webhooks, build queues, health checks, and traffic swaps explained step by step.
It's not about memory safety. Single binary distribution, zero GC pauses for the proxy, 50MB idle RAM, and cross-compilation to 4 targets from one source.
Not 10x, not 2x. About 30% faster. The gains are in boilerplate, tests, and docs. Architecture and race conditions are still slow. Here's the honest breakdown.
Most OTel guides assume Jaeger + Collector + Kafka + Elasticsearch. We replaced all of it with SDK instrumentation, OTLP exporters, and a single backend.
We checked 8 deployment platforms: 5 store secrets in plaintext. AES-256-GCM encryption, envelope encryption, and protecting secrets at rest in your pipeline.
Proxy 3 LLM providers through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Unified cost tracking, request translation, and streaming — self-hosted, no $50/mo Helicone needed.
Complete guide to zero-downtime Docker deployments. Blue-green vs rolling vs canary compared, Docker Compose + Nginx tutorial, database migration patterns, and a load test that proves zero dropped requests.
Traditional cron fails silently in Docker. The HTTP endpoint pattern with auth, monitoring, and automatic secret injection replaces it entirely.
Kubernetes adds 3 control plane nodes before your first container runs. Container scheduling, health monitoring, and orchestration for small fleets without the complexity tax.
Preview environments burn money overnight. The wake-on-request proxy pattern with connection buffering and cold start optimization cuts idle cost to $0.
Encrypted server-to-server networking between Hetzner, DigitalOcean, or any mix of providers. Manual setup tutorial plus automation for 3+ node meshes.
In-process, WASM, sidecar, and webhook plugin patterns side-by-side. Working code for a sidecar plugin manager with the trade-offs we discovered.
Ad blockers and privacy browsers hide your real traffic. Compares the best self-hosted alternatives to Plausible (Umami, PostHog, Temps) — no cookies, no consent banners, no third-party scripts to block.
Concurrent pushes cause deployment races that corrupt builds. Superseding, priority queues, and concurrency locks with CI/CD examples that actually prevent it.
If you're reading Docker build output from stdout, you're doing it wrong. The three-layer pipeline: BuildKit gRPC to WebSocket to browser with ANSI color parsing.
A content-length header on a HEAD response over HTTP/2 causes clients to wait for a body that never arrives. The fix for Nginx, Node.js, and Rust reverse proxies.
How to add session replay without FullStory: use Temps' self-hosted session replay (built on rrweb) with one React provider, or build it yourself. Covers privacy masking, storage math, and setup — no $300+/mo FullStory bill.
Temps is the error tracking tool without per-seat pricing: a Sentry-compatible DSN, error grouping, source maps, and alerting built into a self-hosted deployment platform — no throttling, setup guide included.
Most uptime tools check every 60 seconds. Health checks, state machines, SLA calculation, and alerting that detects outages in under 10 seconds.
Docker containers are ephemeral. pg_dump vs pg_basebackup compared, the sidecar backup pattern, retention policies, and restore testing you should run monthly.
Trivy scans your Docker images for known CVEs in OS packages and dependencies (SCA) on every deploy. Image-scanning, CI/CD integration, and automated CVE alerts for apps already in production.
Statuspage.io starts at $29/mo for a page that says 'operational.' Build your own with component status, incident lifecycle, and uptime history for free.
Google rewrote their funnel UI and made it worse. First-party funnel tracking with event schemas, SQL queries, and drop-off analysis that actually counts everyone.
SMTP setup, SPF/DKIM/DMARC authentication, and delivery pipelines with self-hosted Postal. Same deliverability, no monthly bill, no vendor lock-in.
reCAPTCHA fails accessibility standards and leaks data. Proof-of-work CAPTCHA with challenge-response stops bots without tracking users or showing puzzles.
Temps auto-deploys a preview environment for every pull request with a single toggle — no GitHub Actions YAML, no Traefik config, no wildcard DNS. Compare Temps vs Coolify, Dokploy, Vercel, and Netlify for PR preview deployments, or build it yourself with webhooks and Docker.
One bad UPDATE without a WHERE clause takes down production. Read-only roles, query sandboxing, row limits, and audit trails for safe database access.
58.5% of searches now end without a click. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot decide which sites get cited. How they crawl, what they expect, and how to serve clean markdown.
Most platforms have no audit log until compliance demands it. Event schemas, immutable storage, retention policies, and query patterns you'll need for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
Unsigned webhooks are an open door for attackers. Event types, HMAC signature verification, idempotency, and Slack/Discord integration done securely.
Three separate AWS bills for storing files. The S3 API protocol, presigned URLs, and a self-hosted MinIO setup with the same API and zero egress fees.
Proxy OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Grok through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Unified cost tracking, request logging, and no Helicone or LiteLLM fees.
SSH is the #1 attack vector on exposed servers. Install Tailscale, close port 22, expose only 80/443 — with Hetzner (€3.79/mo), DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode compared.
Announcing the Temps MCP Server with 224 tools across 30 categories. AI assistants can deploy, monitor, and manage your infrastructure.
Step-by-step tutorial for deploying monorepos with Temps. Separate projects per app, shared database services, preview environments, and per-project monitoring.
Vercel vs self-hosted alternatives compared on cost, DX, maintenance, and data control. Why Temps — the only self-hosted PaaS with built-in analytics, error tracking, and audit logs — closes the gap without giving up git-push deploys.
Temps cuts a 5-person team's $100-505/mo Vercel bill to ~$6-7/mo total — deployment, analytics, error tracking, session replay, and uptime monitoring in one Rust binary. Real formulas and itemized comparisons inside.
Temps is a single Apache 2.0 Rust binary bundling deployment, analytics, error tracking, session replay, and uptime monitoring — free to self-host or ~$6/mo on Temps Cloud. Compared head-to-head with Coolify (deploy-only), Dokploy (deploy-only, restricted license on advanced features), and Netlify (per-seat + bandwidth) for self-hosting in 2026.
Step-by-step guide to deploying Next.js applications with Temps. Automatic HTTPS, preview environments, and built-in analytics included.
Complete guide to deploying FastAPI applications with Temps. Zero-config Python deployment with automatic Dockerfile generation.
Temps is the top Netlify alternative for hidden costs in 2026 — the only self-hosted PaaS bundling deploys with analytics, session replay, error tracking, and uptime monitoring for ~$6/mo. Compare it against Coolify, Dokploy, Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel, plus Netlify's $55/100GB overage and $19/seat Pro pricing.
Introducing Dev AI: deploy, debug, and manage applications through natural language. No more documentation hunting or configuration menus.
Deploy Next.js without Vercel: compare Temps, Railway, Docker+VPS, Cloudflare Pages — costs and deploy commands. Vercel $20/seat, self-hosted $7-25/mo.
The cheapest way to host Next.js in 2026: a $4/mo Hetzner VPS with a self-hosted PaaS like Temps. Vercel Pro runs $100-505/mo for a 5-person team. Worksheet, formulas, and real pricing data for every platform.
Temps is the fastest managed path to migrate a Next.js app off Vercel — git-push deploys plus built-in analytics, error tracking, and session replay. Complete guide: export env vars, swap @vercel/ imports, update DNS. Two paths: Temps (15 min) or Docker + VPS (1-2 hours).
Temps is a self-hosted Vercel alternative built for production: git-push deploys plus built-in analytics, session replay, error tracking, and uptime monitoring in one Rust binary. Free to self-host, ~$6/mo on Temps Cloud.
