Ran a web app on Vercel and liked the easy GitHub deploys and dashboard, but worried about the bill when junk traffic hit usage-based pricing, and later moved to a rented VPS.
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About two years building client sites on it, mostly Next.js. The developer experience is still the best I've used. Push to GitHub, every branch gets its own preview URL I can send the client, merge and it's live. Pages are fast and downtime has been a non issue.
Built a GitHub plus Cloudflare Pages workflow that is straightforward and publishes a site in under 5 minutes at no extra cost per site.
View original sourceMoved client Next.js apps to Cloudflare Workers because Vercel started charging an extra 20 dollars for external project members who want to push code.
View original sourceStill uses Netlify for all projects because it is simple and just works: connect the repo and DNS, environment variables, deploy stage and automated builds are all easy.
View original sourceSelf-hosts now but says that, having used Vercel, Heroku and AWS before, Vercel was the cheapest option for the value.
View original sourceLeft Vercel because with two developers the per-seat charges plus a separate database made costs crazy for a starting project, versus a Coolify setup at much less.
View original sourceThey moved their static site to Neocities and say it works well, with the custom domain DNS setup going fine.
View original sourceMoved a simple site with forms and a blog from Wix to Cloudflare in about 4 days and has never been happier.
View original sourceMoved off Netlify because the new credit system charges 15 credits per deploy and traffic, and the site goes dark when credits run out.
View original sourceHas used Netlify flawlessly for Angular and Flutter sites on the free tier for a year, paying 20 a month for private repos, though support took about 24 hours on a DNS issue.
View original sourceThey pay about $20 a month for Vercel and stay under the included usage, but disabled overages after one month went over and the bill reached around $70.
View original sourceThey used Vercel in an enterprise setting at roughly $250K a year for 20 million MAUs and about 400 billion requests, and said it was worth the money compared with building the infrastructure themselves.
View original sourceThey were banned from Neocities after complaints about their controversial content. They liked how simple it was to use and still had a ZIP of their HTML/CSS files to move elsewhere.
View original sourceBusiness site on Vercel loads fast sometimes but most of the time shows site cannot be reached; calls it the worst host used in 20 years.
View original sourceAfter nearly two years on Vercel with a site of many pages, costs hit about 10 dollars a day and they moved to a dedicated VPS at 29 a month.
View original sourceFinds Vercel’s mandatory phone verification when creating accounts the most annoying part and sometimes uses Cloudflare Pages instead.
View original sourceA first-time builder says Vercel cost an astronomical amount for just the homepage and moved off it.
View original sourceMigrated four Vercel Next.js builds to Cloudflare within a day, keeps all builds in one place and says costs are better at scale.
View original sourceThey moved their static sites to Cloudflare Pages after a paid host lapsed, using the free tier with a custom domain and no card required.
View original sourceFinds the Cloudflare Pages free tier very generous with no commercial restriction, and uses it with Workers for everything now.
View original sourceSwitched from GitHub Pages to Cloudflare Pages and says it has been rock solid.
View original sourceHosts a blog, portfolio, photo gallery and a couple of live side products with real users on Cloudflare Pages for a total bill of $0.
View original sourceUses Cloudflare Pages for around 5 websites, three of them portfolios, and adds Workers when functions are needed.
View original sourceHas had a portfolio on the Cloudflare Pages free tier for a while without any issue.
View original sourceVercel charges an extra 20 a month per committer on private repos on top of the Pro account, so they cancelled the project and Pro plan.
View original sourceChose Cloudflare Pages over Vercel and has had a great experience so far.
View original sourcePays 20 a month for Vercel for personal and a wife’s coaching site and says it has been great.
View original sourceVercel’s extra per-seat billing was more than their nonprofit could manage so they cancelled.
View original sourceHas several static sites on Netlify with Svelte, Next and Vue and no issues, and uses its DNS management as well.
View original sourceHas used Netlify for a client site for nearly three years, great for static sites, with build minutes and serverless limits as the main caveats.
View original sourceNetlify turned off a site after 300 credits vanished on an idle static site; they paid 9 to restore it and are moving to Cloudflare.
View original sourceFound deploying Next.js to Cloudflare pretty straightforward, with a really smooth adapter.
View original sourceTried deploying Next.js on Cloudflare with OpenNext but hit caching problems and runtime errors.
View original sourceThey switched to Vercel after GitHub Pages failed for their static Next.js export, and it is working there.
View original sourceThey could not get their Next.js image export setup working on GitHub Pages despite trying basePath in config and inline, and gave up and moved to Vercel.
View original sourceAn SSG ecommerce site took 2-3 seconds per page navigation on Netlify but 300-400ms on Cloudflare and Vercel, so they moved to Astro on Cloudflare.
View original sourceThey deployed the same project on Netlify without extra basePath work and it worked straightforwardly.
View original sourceRuns a professional portfolio built with Astro for free on Cloudflare with a proper domain and stupid fast performance; calls Cloudflare very cheap and powerful below enterprise level.
View original sourceRebuilt their site and hosts it free on Cloudflare Pages, paying only about $5 a year for the domain.
View original sourceTheir Next.js site has been painless on Vercel, usually just a git push, and the convenience keeps them there.
View original sourceThey host web games and client landing pages on Vercel with GitHub and Claude, say it works flawlessly after spending thousands on Webflow, and would gladly pay when needed.
View original sourceThey build their portfolio in Webflow, export the code and host it free on Netlify, and say it works perfectly for a static portfolio.
View original sourceAfter five years paying Webflow fees they exported their one-page portfolio and now host it free on Cloudflare Pages.
View original sourceHosts a one-file game on the Cloudflare Pages free tier with a Worker plus KV leaderboard that has served players in 25 countries.
View original sourceDeploying a Next.js app to Cloudflare Pages hit many Edge Runtime incompatibility errors that were only solved by moving to Workers.
View original sourceTheir GitHub Pages custom domain site worked for a week, then showed an SSL protocol error for two days. Removing and re-adding the domain and re-enforcing HTTPS did not help.
View original sourceAfter traffic hit limits on an open-source app the user upgraded to the 20 dollar plan and still got a surprise 100 dollar add-on bill at month end, then moved to their own VPS.
View original sourceTheir free Netlify account was suspended without notice and support gave no response for over a week.
View original sourceCould not get a Lovable site migrated to Cloudflare Pages and found its control panel like operating a space station.
View original sourceHates it, calling it absolute garbage, and points to endless complaints in the Amplify Discord from people frantically trying to fix their production deploys.
View original sourceTwo years of building a tutoring platform ended in migrating to Supabase because DynamoDB lacked SQL joins and Cognito authentication was a pain.
View original sourceHas never had any issues with Vercel despite hearing complaints, finding it easy in and out for simple projects.
View original sourceHad a site on Vercel for a week and found great developer experience but bad invoices.
View original sourceRuns many small low-traffic projects on Vercel, which is cheap for that and simplifies deployment, moving projects out only if traffic grows a lot.
View original sourceUses Vercel because it is easy and friendly for ship-and-test projects, keeping a private VPS for more demanding validated projects.
View original sourceHosts all company websites on Vercel Pro for about 20 euros and considers it a good deal.
View original sourceHas used nothing but Vercel since discovering it, for both Next.js and SvelteKit.
View original sourceThey autodeploy their projects from GitHub to Cloudflare Pages and like the extra features included for free.
View original sourceThey run web apps with multiple users on Vercel and stay well within the free tier; a bug once maxed their function invocation cap, so they started a new account and moved their repo.
View original sourceThey migrated a Next.js app off Vercel and found hosting it elsewhere annoying, taking a few months to set up CI/CD and a VPS.
View original sourceNetlify took two live sites fully down when deploy credits ran out, could not buy credits on free, and a 2FA failure locked them out of the account.
View original sourceUpgraded to Netlify Personal at 9 a month but still only gets 1000 credits, which frequent deploys burn through quickly.
View original sourceRuns 13 apps on Cloudflare for two years, compares it to Vercel at work, and says it is now better, cheaper and running smoothly.
View original sourceSays Vercel is great and works well with their Next.js setup via GitHub Actions.
View original sourceAt an agency, Netlify’s Image CDN went down for an hour and later the whole system returned 503 or SSL errors for about an hour with the dashboard inaccessible.
View original sourceMoved from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages for 500 free builds and no server compute, but found concurrent builds need a $20 Pro tier and support did not help.
View original sourceHas worked on products with 50,000 daily active users on a 20 dollar a month Vercel plan.
View original sourceMoved from Wix to Netlify with Claude and GitHub so code changes auto-deploy, with DNS the hardest part.
View original sourceHas 6,600 users across staging and production on Vercel for a total bill of 70 dollars.
View original sourceWorked on an e-commerce shop on Vercel with about 50,000 orders a month that cost around 10,000 dollars a month, suggesting parts of the backend belonged on AWS.
View original sourceWas billed about 300 dollars a month on Vercel and cut it to about 100 dollars with a dedicated server, Cloudflare and Coolify.
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