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Thanks for the insights! Re: Vercel, it's not the $20/mo that's expensive, but their exorbitant bandwidth and serverless charges once you scale to actual produ
by unknown_error 5y ago
Thanks for the insights!
Re: Vercel, it's not the $20/mo that's expensive, but their exorbitant bandwidth and serverless charges once you scale to actual production usage. Their plans are great for hobbyist projects that fall within fair use limits, but it gets really expensive to scale up past that. Their CDN cost is something like 10x what Fastly (their underlying backbone) would charge you directly, and a lot more than Cloudfront too. I mean, I get that they have to make profit, but they don't build their own infrastructure (mostly Fastly and a bit of AWS, I believe).
I don't think there are any other hosts that have out-of-the-box support for 100% of Next.js's features (ISR, image loaders, page rewrite rules, etc.). A lot of it only works by magic and only on Vercel. Would love to see Ness keep evolving, and especially if it supports infrastructure other than AWS.
100% Next.js support on Cloudflare would be the holy grail, with an unmetered CDN and super fast, super affordable serverless workers (albeit JS only, no Node).