“I spent the last three years doing deployments at both Vercel and github pages. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to fast deployments and gambling with the internet.”
“I connected my Lovable project to GitHub and deployed it on Vercel. Since then (about 3 days now), every single time I try to do anything in the Lovable editor, it tells me my credits are used up. This is happening constantly, way more than my normal usage.”
“On the questions: single region plus spiky traffic means edge buys you nothing, a boring VM or Fly/Render box near your DB is strictly better than paying Vercel for convenience you can replicate in a weekend. Scaling Postgres up and down around bursts is more trouble than it's worth, \~2,000 concurrent is small, just keep modest headroom and leave it.”
“You can use the KV cache setup within Vercel if you want to stick with Vercel, but personally wouldn't suggest using Vercel to run expensive operations.”
“The findings I found wasnt that you charged for blocks, it was that blocks - while not hitting my app - still counted as usage. My edge requests did not go down even though I had set up a block and my application was no longer receiving the requests.”
“Serverless (or more specifically, usage-based pricing) isn't suited for all kinds of usages. Depending on your comfort with setting up build & deploy, you may choose Railway / Render vs self-hosted VPS.”
“Technically you need the pro plan if you're using it for commercial purposes. Pragmatically you can probably just use the hobby plan until you hit the limits.”
“honestly from my experience the Vercel firewall with the passive bot protection is far more reliable than Cloudflare. (but I'm on a paid plan so I don't know if anything change with the free version)”
“* **Limits & billing:** Should I be worried about accidentally hitting usage limits and waking up to bills I can’t sustain? My projects are small, but I don’t want surprises.”
“I got tired of creating git repos and using vercel/netlify every time I wanted to upload a vibe-coded deck or a simple app, so I built this. Would love to get some feedback!”
“I set up domains this way every time I push to Vercel and it always works. After you paste those values in your DNS settings just wait a bit for propagation and check your domain settings page on Vercel.”
“I’ve enjoyed the convenience of Fly and Railway. But I don’t think it buys you anything better than Supabase or Vercel. Apart from pricing, it’s relatively the same.”
“i run nextjs on a vps with pm2 and it works fine, you get full control over node and no platform limits. but before you migrate anything switch your pages to on demand revalidation using revalidatePath or revalidateTag in a route handler.”
“but yeah you can definitely run nextjs on a vps, done it a few times for smaller projects where vercel's pricing didn't make sense. just spin up something with decent ram and use pm2 to keep the process alive, nginx as a reverse proxy in front of it”
“I use both Supabase and Vercel, and saw some people complaining about unexpected charges from Vercel, and some people recommending not using it including Supabase.”
“Check that the Vercel function runs near the Supabase region too. A region mismatch adds a round trip to every sequential query, so three small queries can become one slow navigation.”
“With Vercel, Netlify, Firebase, etc., if you get hit with a bot attack, they come after you for $100k+ and you have to beg on social media for them to call off the collectors.[0][0] https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_jus...”
“Netlify and vercel have a generous free tier, I never paid a dime. What you might eventually pay for in those services is the exceptional DX, which this amateurish service will never get close to.All this to say that 9€/month is way too expensive.”
“I made the switch almost a month ago and I’ve had way less issues deploying through Cloudflare workers and Opennext than I have through vercel. 10/10 would recommend!”
“Vercel pricing is a trap for side projects. I stopped paying them the moment OpenNext made Cloudflare deployment actually work without config headaches”
“Every week, I was getting those automated emails from Vercel warning me about hitting usage limits. My projects generate a bit of traffic, but nowhere near enough to justify paying for Vercel Pro out of pocket for side projects. So I was stuck in that classic side-project loop.”