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How to fill in each field.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/paas-vs-iaas-vs-serverless/https://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/paas-vs-iaas-vs-serverless/PaaS, IaaS and serverless compared: who runs which layer, how each is billed, typical use cases and a simple decision guide for small teams and SMEs.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/railway-vs-render/https://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/railway-vs-render/Railway vs. Render compared: usage-based against instance-based pricing, EU regions in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, free tiers, databases and which suits your app.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/self-hosted-paas/https://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/self-hosted-paas/Coolify, Dokku and CapRover compared: how each self-hosted PaaS deploys apps, what it needs, what you still maintain and which suits your team and server.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/what-is-paas/https://www.ngpaas.eu/paas/what-is-paas/Platform as a service explained: what a PaaS runs for you, what you still own, typical costs and limits, and when it beats a plain server or Kubernetes.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT