Engineering notes from the team building the platform.

A decision framework for choosing between self-hosted and managed billing: weigh team capacity, compliance, control, and total cost before you commit.

Ilinca Bostan

A practical guide to deploying self-hosted FluxBilling on Kubernetes: mapping components, handling state, managing secrets, and rolling out updates safely.

Mario Marin

A safe, repeatable approach to updates and patching for self-hosted billing: prioritize security fixes, test in staging, back up first, use a maintenance window, keep a rollback plan, and read the release notes.

Mario Marin

FluxBilling offers the same platform as both a managed cloud service and a self-hosted edition from one codebase, so you can choose your deployment model on fit and change it later without changing the product your customers use.

Ilinca Bostan

Keeping a self-hosted billing stack reliable day after day: monitor the signals that predict trouble, alert on what matters, patch on a cadence, watch capacity, verify backups, and keep runbooks current.

Mario Marin

The building blocks of a highly available self-hosted billing deployment: find single points of failure, add redundancy at each layer, test failover, and match the investment to real need.

Ilinca Bostan

A low-risk, staged path for moving from managed cloud to self-hosted billing without disrupting customers: prepare, rehearse, cut over in stages, validate, and keep a rollback option.

Mario Marin

How to grow a self-hosted billing system smoothly: find the real bottleneck, scale the database and application layers deliberately, separate background work, and plan capacity ahead of demand.

Ilinca Bostan

Beyond the monthly subscription: how to build an honest three-year total-cost-of-ownership comparison between self-hosted and SaaS billing using your own numbers.

Mario Marin

A practical hardening guide for self-hosted billing: lock down the network and access, protect data, patch promptly, monitor and log, and prepare an incident-response plan.

Ilinca Bostan

How to design a dependable backup and disaster-recovery strategy for a self-hosted billing system: RPO and RTO, the 3-2-1 principle, off-site copies, and tested restores.

Mario Marin

How running billing on your own infrastructure supports GDPR and data-residency obligations through direct control over storage, access, retention, and security, and what it cannot do alone.

Ilinca Bostan