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I have always disliked services like netlify or vercel. Sure it seems nice with free hosting but in reality it's quite limiting and often it's cheaper to host o

I have always disliked services like netlify or vercel. Sure it seems nice with free hosting but in reality it's quite limiting and often it's cheaper to host on a $5 DO droplet or some similar vps offering. Also, with those kind of services that are free, soon gets very expensive as soon as you leave the free tier. With a vps, you can do front and backend and host hundreds of low traffic websites. I don't really understand what type of developer only does front end work or where do you host your backend stuff whjen you use Vercel / Netlify?

nikon 6y ago
Couple of reasons why you'd pick one of these services over a $5 DO droplet: - Maintenance (zero) - Auto deployment - Global CDN - Serverless functions can deal with spikes automatically, but cost zero when idle
- ecmascript 6y ago
  Yeah I get that, it's a fair reason to choose serverless stuff before a VPS and I understand why people do it. In fact, I understand it enough and have felt the pain enough that I am actually working on a project that will help solve several of these issues for traditional server hosting. The only thing it won't have is a global cdn but that could potentially be added in the future as well.But I think a CDN is not needed for most projects actually and my service will focus on smaller to medium sized projects. https://deployjs.com/ https://deployjs.com/ - but it's pretty far from even reaching an alpha release :)