Comment by RadiozRadioz
10 months ago
There are 3 problems with this approach that make Vercel / Netlify much better options:
1. People delude themselves into thinking that they have the magic unicorn project that will blow up to a million users in 1 day.
2. People are out of touch with how fast computers are these days, and don't realize that a single server can handle a huge amount of traffic.
3. People lack the skills to build out their own infra in a time efficient way. With all the tools and free knowledge we have today, it is trivial to set up a small network of small servers around the world for a small business. People lack the skills to do this, pay too much for cloud compute, then justify it to themselves that "it's cheaper than engineer time" - when in reality, if they were better engineers, it wouldn't take a lot of engineer time.
The first two don’t negate a vps option.
3. People greatly over estimate the amount of work it takes to setup a vps, especially with a OS deployment service like Coolify and the like. Takes less than an hour. You act like it’s a full time job when unless you’re app has completely blown up, it’s set once and forget.
Yeah I totally agree with you.
I tried to do a bait-and-switch with my comment above for comedic effect but I don't think it worked. I started it with a preface you'd expect from someone genuinely arguing against VPSs, then each of my points was actually about how the common arguments against VPSs are deluded/stupid.