Comment by rKarpinski

1 year ago

Doesn't make me feel great about Vercel either (which I was looking at)

Id recommend avoiding Vercel like the plague. Their entire business model is poorly aligned with your interests as a customer.

Why? If you use Vercel in the Free Tier you cannot automatically go to the Pro tier.

You need to manually upgrade.

Unless you need more than the Free-Tier Vercel should be fine.

  • If you use Netlify in the free tier you cannot automatically go to pro tier either. Yet they will charge you for bandwidth > 100GB, and THERE IS NO WAY FOR YOU TO SWITCH THAT OFF, even in the free tier.

    "Should be fine" is exactly what is not the case here. Better check your Vercel terms again.

    • Wow that's indeed very bad from Netlify.

      From every Vercel document that I can read though is that when you exceed the limits of free tier they are just locked for 30 days unless you upgrade to Pro.

      So unless I am mistaken this cannot happen on Vercel.

  • Would be for a new business. Not a fan of introducing this sort of tail risk & whatever other risks I don't even know about for their managed service, when there are simpler ways to host I've done for years.