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The Great SaaS Exodus: Why Companies Are Moving Entire Stacks to Self-Hosted in 2026

Something satisfying happened this year. A German state ditched Microsoft, a nonprofit told Slack to take a hike, and French schools banned Google Workspace. These aren't isolated incidents. They're symptoms of the same disease, and companies everywhere are finally reaching for the cure. The SaaS model

Platform Engineering

The 2026 Platform Engineering Stack: What Open-Source Tools Companies Are Actually Running

Every engineering team eventually hits the same wall. You've got five SaaS subscriptions for CI/CD, three more for monitoring, a separate secrets manager, and somehow you're still SSHing into production to check logs. Sound familiar? The platform engineering movement isn't about adding more

Elestio

Elestio CLI & Agent Skill: Let AI Agents Deploy and Manage Your Infrastructure

Two months ago, we started asking ourselves a simple question: what if your AI coding assistant could deploy infrastructure the same way it writes code? Not through a dashboard. Not by generating Terraform files you have to review and apply. Just... deploy it. Say "I need a PostgreSQL database&

Self-Hosted

EU Data Residency Laws Are Breaking Your SaaS Stack (Here's How to Fix It)

If you're running a European business on American SaaS tools, you might have a compliance problem you don't even know about yet. The regulatory landscape shifted dramatically in the past two years. GDPR enforcement got teeth. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework faces ongoing legal challenges.

metabase

How Metabase Lets Your Entire Team Explore Data (No SQL Required)

Every business runs on data, but most businesses can't actually use it. The sales team wants to know which leads convert best. The marketing team wants to see campaign performance. The CEO wants a dashboard that answers "how are we doing?" without waiting three days for

mautic

How Mautic Gives Small Businesses Enterprise Marketing Tools (Without the Enterprise Price Tag)

If you're running a small business and paying Mailchimp $60/month for 2,500 contacts, you've probably done the math and winced. And if you've looked at HubSpot's Marketing Hub at $890/month for "Professional" features, you might have laughed

Security

Open-Source Cybersecurity Tools Every Self-Hoster Should Know in 2026

Running self-hosted services is one of the smartest moves a business or homelab enthusiast can make. But here's the uncomfortable truth most self-hosting guides skip over: every service you spin up is another attack surface. And if you're not actively protecting your infrastructure, you&

Self-Hosting

Digital Sovereignty in 2026: How EU Data Residency Laws Are Driving the Self-Hosting Boom

Something interesting is happening in European boardrooms right now. CTOs who spent the last decade moving everything to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud are having uncomfortable conversations with their legal teams. The topic? Where their data actually lives. The Regulatory Tipping Point The EU's regulatory framework around data

Baserow

Why Small Businesses Are Ditching Airtable for Baserow

Your team is growing. Spreadsheets are everywhere. Someone just overwrote last week's client list, and nobody knows which version is correct anymore. Sound familiar? This is the exact moment most small businesses discover Airtable. It promises the flexibility of spreadsheets with the power of databases. And it delivers.

AI

MoltBot Just Broke the Internet: Deploy Your Own AI Assistant in Minutes

You've probably seen it everywhere this week. Your Twitter feed. Hacker News. That one Slack channel where the senior dev posts "interesting stuff." MoltBot just gained 9,000 GitHub stars in a single day, and Andrej Karpathy himself gave it a public endorsement. People are calling

Zammad

Why Businesses Are Switching from Zendesk to Zammad (And Saving Thousands)

If you've ever watched your Zendesk bill climb higher each time you add a new support agent, you're not alone. Customer service software has become one of the most expensive line items for growing businesses, and many teams are starting to question whether they're

AI

Build AI Chatbots with Dify (No Coding Required)

Every small business owner knows the frustration: customers expect instant responses, but hiring a 24/7 support team is expensive. Meanwhile, ChatGPT and similar AI tools seem promising, but they don't know anything about your products, your policies, or your specific business context. This is exactly what Dify

Self-Hosting

Self-Hosting in 2026: Why the $85B Market Boom Changes Everything

Something interesting happened to the self-hosting market in 2026. It stopped being a niche hobby and became a legitimate business strategy. The numbers tell the story: the self-hosting market is projected to reach $85.2 billion by 2034, up from $15.6 billion in 2024. That's

Self-Hosted

The 2026 Homelab Stack: What Self-Hosters Are Actually Running This Year

Spend five minutes on r/selfhosted or any homelab forum and you'll notice something interesting: the conversations have changed. Two years ago, everyone was asking "what should I run?" Now they're sharing sophisticated stacks that rival small business infrastructure. The self-hosting movement has

Paperless-ngx

Go Paperless in 2026: How Paperless-ngx Organizes Your Documents Better Than Dropbox

That filing cabinet in the corner of your office? It's not just taking up space. It's costing you hours every week in lost documents, misfiled invoices, and the endless "where did I put that contract?" moments. In 2026, there's no reason to

PostHog

Why PostHog Is the Smarter Alternative to Google Analytics and Mixpanel

Your website gets traffic. People click around. Some buy, most don't. But why? Google Analytics tells you that people left. PostHog tells you why. That distinction matters more than you think. The Problem with Traditional Analytics Google Analytics is like a security camera that only records headcounts. You

Penpot

Why Penpot Is the Open-Source Figma Alternative Your Design Team Needs

Your design tool bill just went up. Again. If you're running a small agency, a startup, or even a marketing team that dabbles in UI mockups, you've probably noticed that Figma's pricing keeps climbing. In 2025, teams are facing 40% higher costs year-over-