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If you're only paying $3-5 on Linode then your level of usage would probably be comfortably at $0 on Vercel.

esseph 6mo ago
Makes sense considering the quality of Vercel's security response and customer communication.
0xmattf 6mo ago
It could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month. Does Vercel do the same?
- somewhatgoated 6mo ago
  No, I run several small websites on Vercel for free for years, always served static pages very quickly
  - anurag 6mo ago
    Render offers free static sites that are served via a CDN and load instantly: https://render.com/docs/static-sites https://render.com/docs/static-sites
    - 0xmattf 6mo ago
      When I said landing page, I had contact forms and more in mind, not documentation sites. But that is news to me. Interesting. Although for static sites, I always use Netlify or even GitHub pages.
  - 0xmattf 6mo ago
    Static pages, sure. But what do you do if you want a contact form or something? Yeah, you can use services like formspree, but then you may end up paying $20/month for that alone. Perhaps I'm just ignorant.
- cleaning 6mo ago
  No.
00deadbeef 6mo ago
What if they have an actual back-end with long-running processes and scheduled tasks?
arch-choot 6mo ago
Repeating a prior comment I've made about this[0]: I run a rust webserver on a €4 VPS from hetzner that serves 300M (million) requests a day. From what I can figure out, Vercel charges "$0.60 per million invocations" [1], which would cost me $180 per day. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611454 [1] https://vercel.com/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing#invocations https://vercel.com/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing#invocati...
- mmastrac 6mo ago
  I run a Rust webserver on a literal Pi3 in my basement and I think I managed to bench it up >1000 rps for standard loads. And that includes a bunch of tanvity querying as well. I suspect I could do 3000+ rps with some tuning and a more modern CPU or hetzner VPS, but there's some fun cachet from running on an old Pi while there's still headroom.

Makes sense considering the quality of Vercel's security response and customer communication.

It could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month. Does Vercel do the same?

somewhatgoated 6mo ago
No, I run several small websites on Vercel for free for years, always served static pages very quickly
- anurag 6mo ago
  Render offers free static sites that are served via a CDN and load instantly: https://render.com/docs/static-sites https://render.com/docs/static-sites
  - 0xmattf 6mo ago
    When I said landing page, I had contact forms and more in mind, not documentation sites. But that is news to me. Interesting. Although for static sites, I always use Netlify or even GitHub pages.
- 0xmattf 6mo ago
  Static pages, sure. But what do you do if you want a contact form or something? Yeah, you can use services like formspree, but then you may end up paying $20/month for that alone. Perhaps I'm just ignorant.
cleaning 6mo ago
No.

00deadbeef 6mo ago

What if they have an actual back-end with long-running processes and scheduled tasks?

arch-choot 6mo ago

Repeating a prior comment I've made about this[0]: I run a rust webserver on a €4 VPS from hetzner that serves 300M (million) requests a day. From what I can figure out, Vercel charges "$0.60 per million invocations" [1], which would cost me $180 per day. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611454 [1] https://vercel.com/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing#invocations https://vercel.com/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing#invocati...

mmastrac 6mo ago
I run a Rust webserver on a literal Pi3 in my basement and I think I managed to bench it up >1000 rps for standard loads. And that includes a bunch of tanvity querying as well. I suspect I could do 3000+ rps with some tuning and a more modern CPU or hetzner VPS, but there's some fun cachet from running on an old Pi while there's still headroom.