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.
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