Batuhan Esirger
Co-Founder
Co-founder of Raff, focused on practical cloud infrastructure, product strategy, and helping small teams choose simpler hosting architectures.
77 articles published
Blog Posts(32)
Guides(20)
Best VPS Hosting Providers in 2026: 6 Options Compared
Compare six VPS hosting providers in 2026 across pricing, performance, bandwidth, regions, backups, support, and operating model to find the right fit.
What Is a VPS Used For? Workloads You Can Host
What is a VPS used for? Compare websites, apps, APIs, Docker, databases, automation, Windows workloads, and when another hosting model fits.
How to Choose a VPS Provider: A 10-Point Decision Framework
Choose a VPS provider using a 10-point framework for performance, pricing, bandwidth, backups, support, security, location, scaling, SLA, and exit risk.
VPS Bandwidth and Transfer Costs Explained
Understand VPS bandwidth, transfer limits, egress fees, port speed, unmetered traffic, overages, and how network usage changes real monthly server cost.
SaaS Architecture: From Single VM to Multi-Service Infrastructure
Plan SaaS architecture from a single VM to separated databases, state, storage, multiple app nodes, private networking, deployment, and recovery.
AI Coding Agents and Cloud Dev Environments Explained
Plan cloud dev environments for AI coding agents with isolation, scoped permissions, reproducible builds, test workloads, human review, and VM vs app-platform choices.
VPS vs AWS EC2: Cost, Complexity & When to Choose Each
VPS vs AWS EC2 explained: compare virtual servers, pricing, EBS, bandwidth, IPv4, scaling, AWS integrations, and when each operating model fits.
VPS Hosting Decision Guide: Choosing the Right Server
Choose VPS hosting by comparing control, management, sizing, Linux vs Windows, security, backups, total cost, reliability, and when another hosting model fits better.
Production VPS Checklist for SaaS Apps
Use this production VPS checklist to validate SaaS capacity, access, traffic paths, storage, backups, monitoring, restore testing, and scaling decisions before launch.
MySQL vs PostgreSQL vs MongoDB: How to Choose the Right Database
Compare MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB by data model, ecosystem, performance, scaling, and operations to narrow a three-engine database decision.
Database Hosting Services: How to Choose for Production Apps
Compare database hosting services for production apps by engine support, backups, PITR, HA, private networking, connections, pricing, migration, and support.
Separate App and Database Server: When Small Teams Should Split
Learn when to separate app and database servers for SaaS, compare managed vs self-hosted paths, and plan networking, recovery, cost, and migration.
VPS Database Hosting: What Small Teams Should Know
Compare VPS database hosting with managed databases, including control, cost, backups, recovery, networking, and operational ownership for small teams.
Cloud Server Pricing: What Actually Drives Monthly Cost
Compare Raff's Cost-Optimized, General Purpose and CPU-Optimized VM prices, bandwidth, uptime terms, storage, Windows licensing and total monthly cost.
Serverless API Endpoint vs App Platform: Which HTTP Runtime Fits?
Learn when a serverless API endpoint or App Platform API fits better based on workload coupling, routing, process lifecycle, deployment workflow, scaling, and cost.
Serverless vs Containers: Differences, Cost & When to Use Each
Compare serverless vs containers across architecture, scaling, cost, portability, runtime control, serverless containers, Kubernetes, and common use cases.
Serverless Cost Controls: Spend Caps, Warm Instances & Usage Limits
Learn how serverless cost controls, spend caps, warm instances, usage limits, and anomaly reviews help small teams prevent unexpected function spend.
Secure Remote Access for MSPs: Bastion, VPN, or Zero Trust
Secure remote access for MSPs using bastions, VPNs, zero-trust access, client isolation, RDP/SSH controls, technician offboarding, logging, and Raff VPC.
Platform Engineering for Startups: When Internal Platforms Pay Off
Learn when platform engineering for startups pays off, what to standardize first, how to evaluate golden paths, and when an internal developer platform is justified.
Private Cloud Networking for MSPs: Secure Client Isolation
Private cloud networking for MSPs: design per-client VPCs, client isolation, network segmentation, admin access, peering, VPNs, recovery, and offboarding.
Comparisons(25)
Netcup Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Netcup? Raff is $17.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 80 GB NVMe from us-east, with no setup fee and 24/7 support.
Hostinger Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Hostinger? Raff is $27.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 8 GB and 160 GB NVMe with unmetered transfer on a 3 Gbps port.
Bluehost Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Bluehost? Raff is $17.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 80 GB NVMe with no 24-month prepay and no renewal price jump.
Confluent Alternatives 2026: Managed Kafka Options for Small Teams
Compare Confluent alternatives including Raff Managed Kafka, Amazon MSK and Aiven across pricing, regions, operations, migration and platform scope.
PlanetScale Alternatives 2026: MySQL & Postgres Options
Moving off PlanetScale? Compare Raff, Neon and Supabase for MySQL/Postgres pricing, branching, scaling, migration and production trade-offs in 2026.
Amazon RDS Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Amazon RDS? Compare Raff Managed PostgreSQL with RDS pricing, HA, backups, regions, transfer costs and migration trade-offs for 2026.
AWS Lightsail Pricing 2026: Plans, Costs & Raff Comparison
AWS Lightsail pricing starts at $3.50 IPv6-only or $5 with IPv4; the 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 80 GB plan is $24. Compare bundles, transfer, add-ons, and Raff.
Linode Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Linode? Raff is $17.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 80 GB NVMe against an identical $24 Linode Shared CPU plan.
Kamatera Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Kamatera? Raff is $17.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 80 GB NVMe against Kamatera Type A at $22 with 5 TB traffic.
Vultr Kubernetes Engine Alternative 2026: Pricing, Features & Operations
Compare Vultr Kubernetes Engine and Raff on VKE pricing, $0 control planes, workers, storage, bandwidth, regions, networking, and operations.
Linode Kubernetes Engine Alternative 2026: Pricing, Features & Operations
Considering Linode Kubernetes? Raff's 2 vCPU/4 GB worker is $17.99/mo, with $30 HA and $0 public egress in us-east.
UpCloud Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering UpCloud? Raff is $17.99/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB and 80 GB NVMe against UpCloud Premium at about $30.14 with 50 GB.
DigitalOcean Kubernetes Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering DigitalOcean Kubernetes? Raff is $17.99/mo for 2 vCPU/4 GB with $0 egress; DOKS is $24/mo with broader regions.
Netlify Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Netlify? Raff Apps starts at $3/mo with $0 public egress; Netlify starts free and Pro begins at $20/mo.
Fly.io Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Fly.io? Raff Apps starts at $3/mo with $0 public egress; Fly.io spans 18 regions with pay-as-you-go Machines.
Vercel Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Comparing Raff Apps with Vercel? Raff Apps starts at $3/mo with $0 public app egress. Vercel Pro starts at $20/mo and includes $20 usage credit plus Flat Rate CDN capacity.
Render Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Render pricing includes a $7 0.5 CPU / 512 MB web-service tier and $25 1 CPU / 2 GB tier. Compare compute, workspace costs, bandwidth, regions, and Raff Apps.
Coolify Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Coolify? Raff Apps starts at $3/mo with $0 public egress; Coolify is free self-hosted but requires your own server.
DigitalOcean App Platform Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
DigitalOcean App Platform starts at $5/mo for 1 shared vCPU / 512 MiB; Raff Apps starts at $3/mo. Compare pricing, transfer, regions, scaling, and storage.
Supabase Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Supabase? Raff offers $0 PostgreSQL with 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM and 2 GB storage; paid plans add fixed resources and optional HA.
AWS S3 Pricing 2026: Storage, Egress & Raff Comparison
AWS S3 pricing in 2026: storage cost per GB, request fees, egress pricing, storage classes, and Raff Object Storage comparison.
Railway Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Railway Hobby has a $5 minimum with $5 usage included; Pro has a $20 minimum with $20 included. Compare usage billing, egress, regions, scaling, and Raff Apps.
Google Cloud Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Google Cloud? Compare Raff at $33.99/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 160 GB NVMe with Google Cloud pricing, bandwidth and tradeoffs.
Azure Virtual Machines Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Azure Virtual Machines? Compare Raff at $33.99/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 160 GB NVMe with Azure VM pricing, bandwidth and tradeoffs.
Oracle Cloud Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features
Considering Oracle Cloud? Compare Raff at $33.99/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 160 GB NVMe with OCI E6 pricing, bandwidth, Free Tier and tradeoffs.