Should you use Vercel?
Vercel's recent pricing change has caused quite a stir among developers. While some will be charged more, others will actually see a reduction in price.
The confusion was sparked by an email stating that customer feedback about the expensive pricing was heard, but then went on to say that customers would need to pay more in the following months.
In light of this, I made a simple tool to help you decide if Vercel is the right choice for you. Check it out here: https://www.nico.fyi/should-you-use-vercel
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Vercel is great! Their free tier is very generous especially if you are in the product-market fit stage. And, Next.js is becoming more and more the gold standard in frontend development. It's VERY EASY to deploy your frontend with Vercel, 100% recommend.
I have used a private VPS so far for hosting all my private projects.
After trying out your tool seems like I need to have a look at Vercel.
I feel like I can reduce my server cost by half.
Which would be a great saving for me. 🤩
try that tool first to see if you should use vercel 😂
Vercel is great for front-end hosting, but it'd be awesome if they also offered backend hosting. That way, we wouldn't have to use different services for each part of our websites.
You mean like long running processes? Yeah they're focused on serverless stuff. Easier and cheaper to maintain maybe?
Ive been deploying directly to a cloud server on GCP with my NextJS application. Its been working out fine but we havent stress tested more than 10 people on at once...
Next.js can be deployed anywhere. But Vercel is more that hosting serverless platform imo.
You can use netlify if vercel is not fit for your case. For me, the biggest difference is, vercel's free plan do not support commercial projects, while netlify supportes commercial projects for free.
I've never heard of that. Where did you hear or read that? Any links?
Hello, check vercel docs
/docs/accounts/plans/hobby#hobby-billing-cycle(oh I am not allowed to post links, sorry, you have to prefix the URL with vercel's domain yourself):Oh wow, thanks for the info. Didn't know that.
SST is a good alternative to Vercel
I heard about it! Haven't tried it though.
The free plan of Vercel is quite good for newly started projects. If you don't want to use Vercel, Cloudflare Pages is also a good alternative.
it is actually one of the questions in the tool 😉
Vercel has an attractive free plan so you can try it out to see if there's a product market fit.
You would've seen that exact sentence if you reached one of the endings in that tool 😂
Your tool says to not use vercel if you have a static page. Why's that?
where does it say that? I don't think I put that.
Never mind. I focused on the SSR related frameworks in the first question and didn't dig into the other frameworks list.
this is sick! actually building a product for alternative vercel with free engineering hours if anyone is interested?
I'd be curious to know more