5 articles about self-hosting.
The ffmpeg protocol whitelist bypass (CVE-2026-107697) and the Oct 8, 2026 CVE batch: which bugs are fixed in 8.1.3, which have no release, and how to harden.
What self-hosting the NCA Toolkit costs: Cloud Run's 5-minute wall, worker timeouts, bucket setup, and CVE patching, plus a side-by-side API comparison.
You can run FFmpeg on Railway, but ephemeral disk, exit-137 OOM kills, and the 15-minute request cap break it at scale. What fails, and the no-infra fix.
Heroku kills FFmpeg jobs three ways: ephemeral filesystem, slug-size limits, and dyno timeouts. Learn the failure modes and the fix.
Self-hosting FFmpeg looks simple until Docker bloat, codec licensing, and scaling hit production. Compare self-hosted FFmpeg vs a cloud API.