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Reddit · r/Hosting · 3 days ago
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.
HostingRecs · Felix D. · 10 days ago
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.
Reddit · r/webdev · 27 days ago
Built a GitHub plus Cloudflare Pages workflow that is straightforward and publishes a site in under 5 minutes at no extra cost per site.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 33 days ago
Moved client Next.js apps to Cloudflare Workers because Vercel started charging an extra 20 dollars for external project members who want to push code.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago
Still 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.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago
Self-hosts now but says that, having used Vercel, Heroku and AWS before, Vercel was the cheapest option for the value.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago
Left 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.
Reddit · r/webdev · 35 days ago
They moved their static site to Neocities and say it works well, with the custom domain DNS setup going fine.
Reddit · r/WIX · 38 days ago
Moved a simple site with forms and a blog from Wix to Cloudflare in about 4 days and has never been happier.
Reddit · r/webdev · 43 days ago
Moved off Netlify because the new credit system charges 15 credits per deploy and traffic, and the site goes dark when credits run out.
Reddit · r/webdev · 47 days ago
Has 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.
Reddit · r/devops · 51 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/devops · 51 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 52 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/vercel · 58 days ago
Business 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.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 68 days ago
After 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.
Reddit · r/vercel · 69 days ago
Finds Vercel’s mandatory phone verification when creating accounts the most annoying part and sometimes uses Cloudflare Pages instead.
Reddit · r/webdev · 71 days ago
A first-time builder says Vercel cost an astronomical amount for just the homepage and moved off it.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 76 days ago
Migrated four Vercel Next.js builds to Cloudflare within a day, keeps all builds in one place and says costs are better at scale.
Reddit · r/webdev · 77 days ago
They moved their static sites to Cloudflare Pages after a paid host lapsed, using the free tier with a custom domain and no card required.
Reddit · r/webdev · 81 days ago
Finds the Cloudflare Pages free tier very generous with no commercial restriction, and uses it with Workers for everything now.
Reddit · r/webdev · 81 days ago
Switched from GitHub Pages to Cloudflare Pages and says it has been rock solid.
Reddit · r/webdev · 81 days ago
Hosts a blog, portfolio, photo gallery and a couple of live side products with real users on Cloudflare Pages for a total bill of $0.
Reddit · r/webdev · 81 days ago
Uses Cloudflare Pages for around 5 websites, three of them portfolios, and adds Workers when functions are needed.
Reddit · r/webdev · 82 days ago
Has had a portfolio on the Cloudflare Pages free tier for a while without any issue.
Reddit · r/vercel · 95 days ago
Vercel 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.
Reddit · r/vercel · 95 days ago
Pays 20 a month for Vercel for personal and a wife’s coaching site and says it has been great.
Reddit · r/vercel · 95 days ago
Chose Cloudflare Pages over Vercel and has had a great experience so far.
Reddit · r/vercel · 95 days ago
Vercel’s extra per-seat billing was more than their nonprofit could manage so they cancelled.
Reddit · r/webdev · 96 days ago
Has several static sites on Netlify with Svelte, Next and Vue and no issues, and uses its DNS management as well.
Reddit · r/webdev · 96 days ago
Has used Netlify for a client site for nearly three years, great for static sites, with build minutes and serverless limits as the main caveats.
Reddit · r/webdev · 100 days ago
Netlify turned off a site after 300 credits vanished on an idle static site; they paid 9 to restore it and are moving to Cloudflare.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 108 days ago
Found deploying Next.js to Cloudflare pretty straightforward, with a really smooth adapter.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 108 days ago
Tried deploying Next.js on Cloudflare with OpenNext but hit caching problems and runtime errors.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 110 days ago
They switched to Vercel after GitHub Pages failed for their static Next.js export, and it is working there.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 111 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 111 days ago
An 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.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 113 days ago
They deployed the same project on Netlify without extra basePath work and it worked straightforwardly.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 114 days ago
Runs 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.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 118 days ago
Rebuilt their site and hosts it free on Cloudflare Pages, paying only about $5 a year for the domain.
Reddit · r/webdev · 119 days ago
Their Next.js site has been painless on Vercel, usually just a git push, and the convenience keeps them there.
Reddit · r/webflow · 120 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/webflow · 120 days ago
They build their portfolio in Webflow, export the code and host it free on Netlify, and say it works perfectly for a static portfolio.
Reddit · r/webflow · 120 days ago
After five years paying Webflow fees they exported their one-page portfolio and now host it free on Cloudflare Pages.
Reddit · r/webdev · 124 days ago
Hosts a one-file game on the Cloudflare Pages free tier with a Worker plus KV leaderboard that has served players in 25 countries.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 124 days ago
Deploying a Next.js app to Cloudflare Pages hit many Edge Runtime incompatibility errors that were only solved by moving to Workers.
Reddit · r/webdev · 135 days ago
Their 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.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 145 days ago
After 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.
Reddit · r/webdev · 149 days ago
Their free Netlify account was suspended without notice and support gave no response for over a week.
Reddit · r/webdev · 150 days ago
Could not get a Lovable site migrated to Cloudflare Pages and found its control panel like operating a space station.
Reddit · r/webdev · 151 days ago
Hates it, calling it absolute garbage, and points to endless complaints in the Amplify Discord from people frantically trying to fix their production deploys.
Reddit · r/webdev · 152 days ago
Two years of building a tutoring platform ended in migrating to Supabase because DynamoDB lacked SQL joins and Cognito authentication was a pain.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 153 days ago
Has never had any issues with Vercel despite hearing complaints, finding it easy in and out for simple projects.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 154 days ago
Had a site on Vercel for a week and found great developer experience but bad invoices.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 154 days ago
Runs many small low-traffic projects on Vercel, which is cheap for that and simplifies deployment, moving projects out only if traffic grows a lot.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 154 days ago
Uses Vercel because it is easy and friendly for ship-and-test projects, keeping a private VPS for more demanding validated projects.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 155 days ago
Hosts all company websites on Vercel Pro for about 20 euros and considers it a good deal.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 155 days ago
Has used nothing but Vercel since discovering it, for both Next.js and SvelteKit.
Reddit · r/webdev · 156 days ago
They autodeploy their projects from GitHub to Cloudflare Pages and like the extra features included for free.
Reddit · r/webdev · 157 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/webdev · 157 days ago
They 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.
Reddit · r/webdev · 176 days ago
Netlify 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.
Reddit · r/webdev · 176 days ago
Upgraded to Netlify Personal at 9 a month but still only gets 1000 credits, which frequent deploys burn through quickly.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 177 days ago
Runs 13 apps on Cloudflare for two years, compares it to Vercel at work, and says it is now better, cheaper and running smoothly.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 177 days ago
Says Vercel is great and works well with their Next.js setup via GitHub Actions.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 178 days ago
At 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.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 192 days ago
Moved 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.
Reddit · r/vercel · 197 days ago
Has worked on products with 50,000 daily active users on a 20 dollar a month Vercel plan.
Reddit · r/WIX · 198 days ago
Moved from Wix to Netlify with Claude and GitHub so code changes auto-deploy, with DNS the hardest part.
Reddit · r/vercel · 198 days ago
Has 6,600 users across staging and production on Vercel for a total bill of 70 dollars.
Reddit · r/vercel · 199 days ago
Worked 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.
Reddit · r/vercel · 199 days ago
Was billed about 300 dollars a month on Vercel and cut it to about 100 dollars with a dedicated server, Cloudflare and Coolify.
Reddit · r/vercel · 199 days ago
Their work Vercel Pro plan produced a last bill of around 10,000 dollars, so they are looking for alternatives.
Reddit · r/vercel · 200 days ago
Runs a SaaS with 300 users on Vercel and pays only 20 dollars a month with no problem.
Reddit · r/vercel · 200 days ago
Averages 3,800 unique sessions a day on Vercel while paying 20 dollars a month and expects it can handle more.
Reddit · r/webdev · 210 days ago
Chose Cloudflare Pages after trying multiple services because the free plan is generous, while Netlify got limiting with limited monthly deployments.
Reddit · r/webdev · 222 days ago
Built their site with Porkbun, Cloudflare and GitHub; Netlify ran out of commits so they moved to Cloudflare, which worked really well.
Reddit · r/webdev · 223 days ago
Bought a domain at Porkbun and hosted the page on Cloudflare, finding it a lot faster and more feature rich.
Reddit · r/vercel · 228 days ago
Their agency hosts over 40 sites for about 30 dollars a month and has never been charged an overage.
Reddit · r/vercel · 231 days ago
Deploys several very large projects on Vercel without spending a fortune, paying only for a Pro account to remove the watermark, and calls it the best of the best after trying alternatives.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 233 days ago
A traffic spike cost 317 on Vercel Pro; support took about two weeks but gave a root cause analysis, mitigation guidance and a 278 refund.
Reddit · r/vercel · 233 days ago
A colleague deploying 30-plus times a day racked up a 250 dollar Vercel bill for one project in build time alone, so they are moving to a VPS for about 70 dollars a month across several projects.
Reddit · r/vercel · 233 days ago
Runs a big website with thousands of users and many pages on Vercel and finds the cost fair, way cheaper than paying devops to handle Kubernetes scaling.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 237 days ago
Used Vercel for years before moving about 50 projects to Cloudflare, calling Vercel overly expensive and charging for things that are nearly unlimited elsewhere.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 239 days ago
Auto-deployment on Cloudflare Pages started failing on env-var imports after a UI-only change, forcing manual wrangler builds and deploys.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 239 days ago
Finds Vercel works well with many good features and does everything needed on the free plan.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 239 days ago
Stays on Vercel because moving off cost far more time in config and builds, though a small project once had higher usage than expected.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 242 days ago
Calls Vercel the best because analytics, caching and observability just work and save hours, so paying an extra 50 dollars a month is fine.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 243 days ago
Has deployed numerous Next.js apps on Cloudflare Pages on the free tier without running out of usage; compatibility has improved a lot.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 245 days ago
Pays about 25 dollars a month on Vercel for 50,000 users plus over two million scraper hits and finds the features useful and simple.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 245 days ago
Has ten sites on Vercel and has not passed 5 dollars in spend; calls it unbeatable hosting value for low-traffic sites.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 246 days ago
Runs multi-tenant sites on Vercel that barely hit 10 percent of plan limits, very snappy sites and happy clients, though not heavy e-commerce or media sites.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 246 days ago
Has paid the same 20 dollars a month to Vercel for over five years, with only about 20 dollars in extra charges in total, and likes it.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 246 days ago
Loves Vercel as super easy to set up and maintain, with one catch: the Pro plan opts you into expensive Turbo build machines that you should switch to standard.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 246 days ago
Pays 20 dollars a month to Vercel, merges to main and the site deploys, expecting the business model to cover bills as it scales.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 246 days ago
Runs a website on the Vercel free plan and it works perfectly fine.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 247 days ago
Their company pays over 100,000 dollars a year to Vercel, mostly ISR costs on a frequently changing catalogue site, and feels held hostage because migrating off is costly.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 247 days ago
Runs 20 client websites from one multi-tenant Vercel app with tens of thousands of monthly page views and still has not passed the 20 dollar a month limit; cheaper than their old Google Cloud setup.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 247 days ago
Likes Vercel for its generous free tier, easy initial deployment and extras like basic observability and DDoS protection; says it is not meant to scale cheaply.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 247 days ago
As a solo developer finds Vercel CI/CD, GitHub integration, cron support and rollback a lifesaver compared with maintaining production infrastructure.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 249 days ago
Calls Vercel one of the best software products they have come across.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 249 days ago
Migrated most Node apps off Vercel to cut cost after their Vercel plan surprisingly doubled in price.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 250 days ago
They ran four side projects on Vercel with modest traffic and were hit with a 380 dollar invoice, which they found shocking for projects that earn nothing.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 250 days ago
Needing a static IP for security meant a 100 dollar base charge plus extra Vercel Private Data Transfer, and every cache-miss build downloading packages through that IP cost a fortune.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 250 days ago
Vercel bill crept up to 300-plus dollars with unchanged API routes and the logs needed another paid subscription to inspect; they migrated off, which was painful but worth it.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 250 days ago
An app that has basically not changed started seeing Vercel costs creep up each month from bot and AI traffic plus ISR.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 250 days ago
Got a Vercel bill with over 120 dollars of on-demand usage so far in the cycle.
Reddit · r/vercel · 256 days ago
Production deploys on Vercel failed during a Dubai region incident even though the project had nothing in that region, stalling a release.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 262 days ago
They had deployment problems on Static Web Apps because a Node version of 20 or higher is required, and they also had trouble with connections and auth libraries.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 263 days ago
Benchmarked Vercel serverless as showing very strong cold and warm performance and a very mature product for Next.js.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 264 days ago
Deploying a TanStack Start site to Cloudflare Pages was messy until they dropped the plugin and prerendered statically, after which Pages served the output properly.
Reddit · r/webdev · 264 days ago
Finds Vercel at 20 dollars a month very reasonable for maintenance-free scaling, one-click deployment and git integration for most projects.
Reddit · r/webdev · 264 days ago
Uses Vercel for an MVP because of automatic preview and production deployments on commit and PR with live URLs, easy environment variable management, and helpful docs.
Reddit · r/webdev · 264 days ago
Free-tier Vercel limits were blown by GPTBot making 164,000 requests a day to an open-source docs site, forcing an upgrade to Pro, though the free tier had been enough before.
Reddit · r/webflow · 267 days ago
They are trying Vercel and host all their low-traffic small business sites under one $20 a month plan.
Reddit · r/webdev · 268 days ago
A ByteDance crawler ran up a roughly 20,000 dollar Vercel bill and Vercel refused to reduce it.
Reddit · r/webdev · 271 days ago
They host their personal site on Neocities and describe it as free and about as easy to use as Visual Studio Code, with an old-fashioned mission they like.
Reddit · r/webdev · 275 days ago
Moved a Kickstarter landing page from Lightsail WordPress to Cloudflare Pages with Supabase and is very satisfied with the setup.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 275 days ago
Benchmarked Netlify as the slowest of Vercel, Cloudflare and Netlify, slow when warm and about 3x slower on cold starts.
Reddit · r/webdev · 276 days ago
Uses Cloudflare Pages for a React SPA frontend and finds it ridiculously fast for static hosting.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 278 days ago
Dropped a $180 renewal host for free Cloudflare Pages for a portfolio site and was glad to be rid of cPanel and DNS hassle, noting it is unbelievably fast.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 278 days ago
Replaced a $320 a year WHM/cPanel setup with a static site on Cloudflare, took about two days to learn, and now pays only for domains.
Reddit · r/vercel · 279 days ago
During a Vercel incident a commit broke their app, further commits stayed staged and they could not log back in.
Reddit · r/vercel · 283 days ago
During a Vercel incident the site stayed up but new deployments were ignored and the dashboard would not load.
Reddit · r/webdev · 287 days ago
A static site on the Netlify free plan burned 180 credits quickly because each git push cost 15 credits, leaving only 59 credits before a shared QR-coded URL goes live.
Reddit · r/webdev · 287 days ago
Recently migrated from Vercel to Cloudflare because it does not charge for edge requests and calls it the smartest thing to do.
Reddit · r/webdev · 288 days ago
Moved a popular static site pushing about 6 TB of bandwidth a month from Vercel to Cloudflare Pages and after a couple of weeks the bill is still free.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 288 days ago
Frustrated at being nickel-and-dimed 150 dollars by Vercel for Deployment Protection Exceptions and is strongly considering leaving.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 289 days ago
At a company with few people managing servers, Vercel is a one-time setup plus git push and just works, with labour cost far lower than AWS apart from one big outage.
Reddit · r/webdev · 289 days ago
Vercel bill reached 1,933.93 dollars in one month, up from 30 the month before, after Meta crawler traffic triggered millions of serverless function invocations.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 290 days ago
Left Netlify after finding that its password-protected site feature for an under-construction domain costs a premium.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 291 days ago
A nonprofit with 14 million unique monthly visitors was facing 23,000 dollar monthly Vercel bills and found Vercel support and sales worthless, so moved to VPS servers that drop for seconds at times.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 291 days ago
After several years under 100 dollars a month on Vercel, one month jumped to over 800 for a front-end-only Next.js app, and support took nearly two weeks to give a generic answer; moved to Cloudflare Workers.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 291 days ago
Pays over 300 dollars a month on Vercel for what would cost about 80 on AWS directly; likes the developer experience but finds the markup insane and pricing opaque.
Reddit · r/webdev · 299 days ago
Used Vercel 2-3 years for several client projects on the free tier without paying anything, running complex Next.js and Vite apps with firewall and bot controls built in.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 313 days ago
Uses Vercel hobby for dozens of projects, has never hit limits or been banned, and finds them friendly to free users.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 314 days ago
Has run a small business site on the Vercel Hobby plan for over two years with about 60 visitors a day and no ban.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 314 days ago
Says the Vercel free plan already offers speed insights, analytics and DDoS protection and works wonderfully with GitHub.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 314 days ago
Deploying Next.js with OpenNext to Cloudflare Workers has been challenging, with missing features and a specific required setup.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 316 days ago
Handled a small business web app with invoicing, attendance tracking, and analytics for a full month in production without a single issue.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 316 days ago
Had Claude Code build a static site on free GitHub and Cloudflare, costing about $3.50 a month with domain and Claude.
Reddit · r/vercel · 316 days ago
Migrating 23 projects from Netlify, which became greedy, to Vercel, which feels much more mature with many more features.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 319 days ago
Runs several Express apps and Hono APIs on the Vercel free tier and stays under its limits.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 326 days ago
A Vercel project with 18-20k daily visitors produced a bill of about 1,000-1,200 dollars a month, mostly Fast Data Transfer at 80-160 GB a day, with a 2.5 MB first load bundle.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 326 days ago
Runs a fairly complex marketing site with hundreds of pages and millions of monthly visitors on Vercel Pro for about 200 dollars a month.
Reddit · r/webdev · 334 days ago
They run their own custom domain on GitHub Pages without buying an SSL certificate, since it comes with a Let's Encrypt certificate.
Reddit · r/webdev · 336 days ago
Says the Netlify free tier is no longer worth considering because the credit system allows only about 20 deploys a month before the site stops; helped a friend move to Cloudflare Pages.
Reddit · r/webdev · 337 days ago
They use Neocities to host their retro photo editor site and say it is great, noting the platform limits them to its .org domain.
Reddit · r/webdev · 338 days ago
They use Amplify for simple web apps with APIs behind an API gateway. Their full setup with extras cost around 60 a month, and they recall SSR apps on Amplify possibly being pricier.
Reddit · r/webdev · 339 days ago
A developer hosts their site on Vercel's free tier with their own custom domain.
Reddit · r/webdev · 343 days ago
On the new Netlify free plan they burned all 300 credits in under two days with tiny traffic from frequent builds, pausing every site.
Reddit · r/webdev · 343 days ago
Stopped using Netlify the day of a startup demo when their site was terminated with no communication.
Reddit · r/webdev · 345 days ago
They deployed a client landing page on GitHub Pages for free with a custom domain and HTTPS and no server costs. DNS propagation was slow but it was smooth once sorted.
Reddit · r/webdev · 345 days ago
Moved from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages and finds it better with better free limits, more stable infra and a better UI.
Reddit · r/webdev · 352 days ago
Netlify was great until credits made deploys feel costly, so they now think twice before pushing code.
Reddit · r/webdev · 353 days ago
They tried Cloudflare Pages and Workers after migrating from the Azure edg.io sunset but hit a problem disabling weak cipher suites. They found it frustrating and had to move back to an Azure CDN service.
Reddit · r/webdev · 353 days ago
Calls Netlify new credit system bad, with 15 credits per deploy against 300 credits free and 2000 on a 10 dollar plan; moving to GitHub Pages.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 362 days ago
Recent experimenting left them very pleased overall, and they see the global CDN, tight CI/CD coupling, zero downtime, easy authentication and free deployment environments as big pluses.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 374 days ago
Gave up deploying a Next.js 15 app with dynamic routes to Cloudflare Pages because it was too annoying and used Vercel instead.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 382 days ago
Vercel image transformation costs jumped from about 15 dollars to 70 in one month with only a slight traffic rise, now most of the bill, so they are migrating away.
Reddit · r/googlecloud · 383 days ago
They have used Netlify since 2019 for static sites with the source on GitHub and say it has always worked well for them.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 392 days ago
Next.js on-demand revalidation did not work at all during testing, adding frustrating DevOps overhead.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 398 days ago
Hosting dozens of sites on the free tier has worked smoothly without rate-limit or DDoS issues.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 400 days ago
They run their static Jekyll site on GitHub Pages and like it, but want a host for larger resources like a photo blog.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 400 days ago
Got an unexpected 1,141.89 dollar Vercel bill, mostly Fast Data Transfer (1,031) and Edge Requests (87), for a Next.js site with static pages and an ISR blog.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 400 days ago
Had a similar surprise Vercel bill before and, after contacting support and describing the situation, got a 50 percent discount on the invoice.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 400 days ago
Says Vercel support does a one-time waiver for surprise bills that do not track normal usage; two employees had this happen in the past year and it was waived quickly.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 400 days ago
At a big tech company experimenting with Next.js, a 300,000 dollar Vercel bill landed in their inbox a few years ago.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 400 days ago
Runs a startup with multiple users and decent scale on Vercel for about 150 dollars a month infrastructure plus 120 for v0 seats.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 402 days ago
Netlify did not work out of the box for Next.js, needing the plugin installed manually plus a netlify.toml file, but then it worked and runs well; free tier lacks analytics.
Reddit · r/webdev · 403 days ago
First time using Cloudflare, found deploying a React/Vite fan app to Pages super easy, with only a ~$10 domain as cost.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 405 days ago
Was charged about 6,000 dollars on a 20 dollar Vercel plan after a few million network requests with some large files, and says Vercel fights refunds; now pays a fixed 24 dollars on DigitalOcean.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 405 days ago
An app with 30-50k monthly traffic but 600,000 daily bot hits cost 15 dollars on a VPS and 300 a month on Vercel, with about 10 dollars daily; quit after a few days.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 407 days ago
Has published SvelteKit apps to Cloudflare Pages for years for free without issue: pushes auto deploy and are live within seconds with no config.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 408 days ago
Uses OpenNext to deploy a large AI open source project on Cloudflare Workers and says it is working well.
Reddit · r/webdev · 408 days ago
Netlify changed its pricing so that every action, including production deploys, now consumes credits; the user found the free trial of the alternative worse than Netlify.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 409 days ago
Recommends Netlify as pretty much a direct replacement for Vercel with a good free tier; the Next.js plugin installs automatically.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 413 days ago
A developer finds Netlify super steady, with easy DNS, forms and redirects.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 413 days ago
A developer prefers Cloudflare Pages over Vercel: easy to set and forget, a generous free tier, and sites running for years with no issues.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 420 days ago
Is using Netlify with no issues at all until Cloudflare is ready for their needs.
Reddit · r/vercel · 426 days ago
Says Vercel gates Secure Compute behind Enterprise as a paid add-on, blocking small teams that need SOC2 compliance.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 427 days ago
Self-hosts because Vercel at 20 dollars per user would cost about 140 a month for a team of seven, which they call borderline predatory.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 437 days ago
Says Vercel works great in their experience, is easy and cheap and has a ton of features.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 437 days ago
Uses Vercel for a large production front end with no issues and for proofs of concept, with free tier, custom domain and GitHub auto-deploy all easy.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 437 days ago
Hit the 10ms CPU limit on Cloudflare in a single test todo app and found the configuration obtuse and chaotic.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 438 days ago
Runs a SvelteKit app on Cloudflare Pages and found it very straightforward to set up.
Reddit · r/webdev · 460 days ago
They have hosted their site on Neocities for a year or two and use about 4.5 GB, and so far it has been great at roughly $5 a month. They were disappointed by the 100 MB per file limit when uploading larger media.
Reddit · r/SideProject · 483 days ago
Hated it from the start and quit after a week or two, finding it cumbersome and more work than needed for simple processes.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 484 days ago
Their business hosts four sites on Cloudflare Pages completely free with automatic preview deployments like Vercel, and received 250,000 dollars in Cloudflare credits.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 488 days ago
A Next.js app worked fine on Cloudflare Pages for two years, but the forced move to Workers was slow, poorly documented and cost a morning, so they went to Vercel.
Reddit · r/webdev · 489 days ago
A new LLC owner hosted their hand-coded site on Cloudflare Pages/Workers with D1 storage for the contact form, for close to free.
Reddit · r/webdev · 492 days ago
Has felt locked into Vercel and obscured by edge requests issues, and will move off unless Vercel becomes more open about hosting elsewhere.
Reddit · r/webdev · 492 days ago
Hosts all hobby services on Vercel because the free tier costs nothing, and would likely stay as projects grow because it is easier.
Reddit · r/webdev · 492 days ago
Happy with Vercel for now because it lets them host React sites easily and for free.
Reddit · r/webdev · 493 days ago
Says that whatever else is wrong with Vercel, difficulty is not one of them: deploying a Next.js site there is trivially easy.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 499 days ago
Got a 237 dollar Vercel Pro bill in six days for 25,000 visitors, driven by edge requests, data transfer and image transformations, projecting to about 1,200 a month.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 499 days ago
Hit heavy egress charges and abusive traffic on Vercel with images and dynamic content, only fixed by caching and putting Cloudflare in front.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 506 days ago
Uses Cloudflare Pages with GitHub Actions so pushes to the branch go live within about 30 seconds.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 510 days ago
Spends about 1,000-1,500 dollars a month on Vercel and rates it great, but finds the enterprise sales people naggy and will probably eject once larger.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 511 days ago
Happy they went deeper into Vercel: image optimisation got cheaper, fluid compute saves money, builds are cheaper and web analytics pricing dropped.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 511 days ago
Got robbed on a Vercel bill when DDoS requests came through and Vercel did not bother refunding, so switched to DigitalOcean.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 518 days ago
Small team chose Vercel and Next.js for very little setup and considers it the right professional choice despite disliking Vercel influence.
Reddit · r/googlecloud · 519 days ago
During the June 2025 Google outage they could not push a site update to Firebase from VS Code.
Reddit · r/webdev · 524 days ago
Switched to Cloudflare Pages with Eleventy after GitHub Pages needed a public repo, and it still works great and is free.
Reddit · r/webdev · 525 days ago
Hosts a vanilla HTML starter repo on Netlify for free and finds it extremely simple.
Reddit · r/webdev · 526 days ago
Builds a Next.js static site and hosts it on Cloudflare Pages for free.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 527 days ago
Their multilingual site with a couple hundred sitemaps that cannot be statically generated is billed around 700 dollars a month by Vercel.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 532 days ago
Runs headless Chromium PDF generation inside Vercel functions and says it works beautifully.
Reddit · r/webdev · 533 days ago
Vercel has done a decent job hosting their low-traffic portfolio site.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 541 days ago
Loves Vercel deploys and starts everything there, moving bigger projects to Coolify later.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 541 days ago
Found Vercel hella expensive at 40-plus dollars a month for a site with 2,000-4,000 daily users with barely cacheable SSR, then moved to Fly.io for about 11.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 541 days ago
Runs two sites on Netlify and cannot fault them: point to the GitHub repo and it deploys in minutes with zero configuration.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 541 days ago
Prefers Vercel over GitHub Pages because apex and www domains with SSL just work, and likes the easy-to-configure Vercel Analytics.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 541 days ago
Uses custom GitHub Actions for Vercel deployments and says it works perfectly fine.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 541 days ago
After trying many approaches, Vercel remains the platform that gives the most comfort: easy to deploy, friendly interface, CDN support and basic analytics, simpler than Cloudflare Pages.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 541 days ago
Loves that Vercel just works out of the box with automatic deploys and a built-in CDN, but costs crept up once when image optimization, caching and serverless functions were not managed carefully.
Reddit · r/vercel · 545 days ago
Calls Vercel new pricing horrendous for paying customers and is canceling the subscription and moving files elsewhere.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 550 days ago
Their team uses GitHub Pages at work for dozens of deployments, all built with Vite, without needing separate hosting.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 555 days ago
Switched from Vercel, which charged about 300 dollars a month, to DigitalOcean at about 50 dollars a month and calls it the best decision.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 556 days ago
A side project with barely any real traffic got a 949 dollar Vercel bill after upgrading to Pro when a crawler hit dynamic routes; support offered only 25 percent off.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 556 days ago
After years on Vercel moved all apps to Cloudflare Pages with D1 and R2 for 5 dollars a month, with builds under 30 seconds, and will never look back.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 556 days ago
Vercel protection was not good enough during an attack: more than a million edge requests in one hour, until Cloudflare rate limiting and rules in front fixed it.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 557 days ago
Hit many build issues deploying a production Next.js monorepo to Cloudflare, with deployments breaking after code changes.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 558 days ago
Still committed to Vercel and loves the platform, but per-seat pricing makes each new hire costly for a small startup.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 559 days ago
Runs a Next.js 15 app with Auth.js and role-based access on Cloudflare without OpenNext.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 571 days ago
Fought with next-on-pages on Cloudflare Pages before giving up because of the many limitations they had to build around.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 571 days ago
Finds Vercel plenty competitive on pricing for what it offers and has never had cost be the bottleneck while scaling a startup.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 571 days ago
Uses Vercel for personal projects and finds it far more straightforward to set up than their AWS SST deployment, without hitting prohibitive costs.
Reddit · r/Entrepreneur · 576 days ago
Rebuilt their Wix site with Bolt and deployed free on Netlify, paying only for the domain, with a result better than Wix.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 583 days ago
Is a big fan of Cloudflare Pages for Next.js, cheaper and much less of a headache than Vercel.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 584 days ago
Needed only custom SSL certificates but was quoted 20-25k a year for Vercel Enterprise versus about 70 a month on Pro.
Reddit · r/webdev · 588 days ago
Has many projects on Netlify and has never had to pay anything.
Reddit · r/webdev · 590 days ago
Came from Netlify to Cloudflare, finds it easier to use and simple to connect a custom domain.
Reddit · r/webdev · 590 days ago
A domain stopped working on Netlify out of the blue, the site was down for days and moving to Cloudflare Pages fixed it.
Reddit · r/webdev · 590 days ago
Uses Netlify mostly for Astro and Next.js sites with no billing issues.
Reddit · r/webdev · 590 days ago
Netlify took their site offline over a trademark complaint with zero communication, after which they moved to Cloudflare.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 597 days ago
Standalone Next.js builds via GitHub Actions fail during deployment because the pipeline attempts to deploy nonexistent Azure Functions.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 598 days ago
Sticks with Vercel managed infrastructure instead of paying a senior DevOps engineer, running a 10-person startup and even looking forward to a larger enterprise deal.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 601 days ago
Finds Vercel a great developer experience but is annoyed by inevitable serverless cold starts and ridiculously expensive analytics and add-ons.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 602 days ago
Pays only about 70 dollars a month on Vercel for around 500,000 monthly users.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 602 days ago
Production workload that grew on Vercel hit a 2100 percent jump from Pro to entry enterprise, HIPAA entry cost-prohibitive and no native websockets, so Vercel is good only for dev/test.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 603 days ago
Says Vercel charges for every function call, duration, feature and surge in traffic, more than anywhere else, and that it is not a serious platform for serious businesses.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 603 days ago
Found Vercel MongoDB integration opens a new connection for every request; even with Fluid compute a mini DDoS hit the 500 connection limit, so they moved the app to Fly.io.
Reddit · r/webdev · 604 days ago
Has used Netlify for years without a single issue, though the thread now has them considering alternatives.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 604 days ago
A static Next.js site hosted on Netlify works like a charm.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 606 days ago
Gave up on Cloudflare because the Worker runtime could not run their PDF generation, so they containerized the app and hosted it elsewhere.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 607 days ago
Runs 10 SvelteKit websites on Cloudflare Pages and finds them fast and is satisfied.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 607 days ago
Runs a large SvelteKit app on Cloudflare Pages and calls it really cheap and fast, with rate limiting rules and no egress fees.
Reddit · r/webdev · 608 days ago
Moved from Netlify to Cloudflare and says they get all of the Netlify benefits for free.
Reddit · r/webdev · 609 days ago
After years on Netlify free they upgraded to Pro at 20 but were charged 44 because git contributors with a mismatched email count as members, and support refused to explain or downgrade.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 619 days ago
A startup pays about 35 dollars a month plus occasional overages for Vercel, never thinks about frontend infrastructure, and says it never goes down while serving up to 1,000 visitors a day.
Reddit · r/webdev · 620 days ago
They hosted a social media site on Netlify, proxying requests to a separate backend to avoid CORS issues and cut backend load.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 620 days ago
Moved from Cloudflare Workers to Vercel and found deployment ten times easier and bug free after constant errors connecting with Workers.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 621 days ago
With millions of users, was unhappy with Vercel communication during a couple of outages last year given how much they pay, and tested an AWS SST backup that performed slightly better at a fraction of the cost.
Reddit · r/webdev · 639 days ago
Deployed a React app 15 times in two weeks using only 13 of 300 free build minutes and calls Netlify amazing.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 641 days ago
Usually deploys on Vercel because the CI/CD pipeline and built-in security are really nice with great developer experience.
Reddit · r/webdev · 644 days ago
A recent Cloudflare advocate: Workers and Pages have been amazing, powering millions of requests a month for extremely cheap.
Reddit · r/webdev · 646 days ago
Uses Vercel with no issues for Next.js apps with millions of views a month; January cost about 220 dollars, with the main cost being edge requests, and it was pricier in early 2024.
Reddit · r/webdev · 647 days ago
Uses Cloudflare to host a React app in production and has never had any issues.
Reddit · r/webdev · 647 days ago
Uses Vercel for a Next.js frontend with around 800,000 page views a month without issues, with Cloudflare for DDoS protection and R2.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 649 days ago
Found Vite React with Hono on Cloudflare Pages crazy fast, while Vercel seemed hit-or-miss with load times.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 651 days ago
HTML, JS, and CSS files from a custom-built Angular 19 deployment randomly fail to load with 404 errors on every browser refresh.
Reddit · r/webdev · 652 days ago
Switched static pages to Cloudflare and finds the limits very generous.
Reddit · r/webdev · 652 days ago
Netlify siphoned off about 200 dollars a month for a static site updated every 15 minutes; GitHub Actions made it free.
Reddit · r/webdev · 652 days ago
Has had over a dozen sites on Netlify for six years, rarely paying more than 12 a month and mostly free, with one site at about 60,000 users a month.
Reddit · r/webdev · 655 days ago
Moving many sites to it cut hosting costs by 60 to 70 percent compared to Vercel, but brought poor UX, slow builds and time-consuming configuration.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 658 days ago
Their small portfolio site used about 25 GB of monthly downloads, over the no-cost plan limit, and they plan to leave. On the paid plan in the past they paid roughly 20-50 dollars a month.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 669 days ago
They host a Next.js app on Firebase Hosting and say it works great, including preview hosting and the GitHub action for deployment.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 674 days ago
Found working with Cloudflare Pages insanely frustrating, struggling for weeks to get SvelteKit set up and logging working.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 676 days ago
Paid about 35 dollars per environment on AWS, which translated to 800 dollars in a single month on Vercel; calls Vercel expensive but a valid launchpad for operational overhead.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 678 days ago
They value Deno Deploy as a reverse proxy with built in logging that they find less convoluted than Vercel.
Reddit · r/webdev · 681 days ago
They run three sites on AWS Amplify, one of them private, and are past the free tier. They have paid nothing beyond domain name costs.
Reddit · r/webdev · 683 days ago
They set up password protection on their Cloudflare Pages site and say it works fine.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 694 days ago
As a developer needing a recent Node.js version they spent over a month getting a static web app running on Azure, versus two minutes locally.
Reddit · r/aws · 701 days ago
Continuous deployment pipeline and monitoring were quick to configure right out of the box with minimal ongoing maintenance costs.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 714 days ago
Runs about 30 Next.js sites for small businesses and finds Vercel cheaper than Netlify at that size, since Netlify pushes you to higher per-site function tiers.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 722 days ago
They have had difficulty using Static Web Apps with Azure DevOps repositories and build pipelines, so they host the standalone Next.js build on Azure Web Apps instead.
Reddit · r/devops · 725 days ago
Deploying a Next.js app fails with a 250MB function content size limit error even when the local build directory is only 110MB.
Reddit · r/webdev · 729 days ago
Has used Netlify for three years with thousands of monthly users and never needed more than the 19 dollar a month Pro plan.
Reddit · r/webdev · 735 days ago
Has hosted multiple web apps on Netlify without any problems.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 736 days ago
Recently launched a site on Vercel with real visitors and says costs are not much to worry about; does not see moving elsewhere, though they hit the 2.5k analytics event limit.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 737 days ago
Runs two popular label websites and several high-sales ecommerce sites on Vercel for 20 dollars a month; the most extra paid was 1.20 dollars for 2 million function invocations, by using ISR and avoiding next/image.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 737 days ago
Runs a huge website on Vercel for only 20 dollars a month by avoiding middleware on every route and using tagged ISR.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 737 days ago
Started getting 800-plus dollar Vercel bills and moved the front end to Render plus BunnyCDN for under 40 dollars a month.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 738 days ago
Finds Netlify works well with Next apps, has a generous free tier, and has a dashboard that makes more sense than Vercel.
Reddit · r/webdev · 741 days ago
They use Netlify and are happy with it, but note on the free plan the repo must be public or a zip uploaded manually.
Reddit · r/webdev · 755 days ago
They hosted a single-page app on Neocities and found that going directly to a path inside the site failed with a not found error, while following internal links to the same path worked.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 757 days ago
After struggling with Google Cloud for a long time, finds Vercel gets deployments ready in minutes instead of hours.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 764 days ago
A portfolio demo hosted on Vercel free tier went over the data transfer limit and was paused with a 402 payment required until the next month.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 767 days ago
At their company Vercel handles under 10k daily unique visitors and 30k visits a day for around 600 dollars a month, of which 150 is Deployment Protection alone, which they do not find really expensive.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 767 days ago
Got surprise Vercel bills when users load-tested their profiles, taking a normal 50 dollar month to over 1,000, before rate limits existed; will still use Vercel with a hard limit to focus on the product.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 768 days ago
Runs about 20 low-traffic apps on Vercel for no more than 20 dollars a month.
Reddit · r/webdev · 775 days ago
Hosts a 53,000-file hiking guide on Cloudflare Pages free by splitting into two sites because of the 20,000-file limit, which hurt Google indexing.
Reddit · r/webdev · 777 days ago
They moved from GitHub Pages to Vercel because they needed custom CORS headers for sharedArrayBuffer.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 780 days ago
Pointing a custom domain from Microsoft 365 DNS to a static web app has been increasingly complex and unnecessarily difficult, with no help from Microsoft or Azure, leaving them paying for two hosts.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 780 days ago
At about 100k page views a month with middleware and dynamic data pays 20 dollars for a Pro seat plus 17 for Speed Insights, and says it saves hours of time.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 783 days ago
They hit the same backend problem and worked with Microsoft support, which ended with linking their own App Service as the backend. They now pay for an App Service on top of the Static Web Apps costs.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 783 days ago
Left Vercel as a small startup because pricing was incredibly expensive and support refused an edge request discount, even suggesting they go elsewhere; now runs on a 16 dollar a month VPS with Coolify.
Reddit · r/sveltejs · 783 days ago
Warns that SvelteKit projects on Cloudflare Pages can fail to build with an older version when you return to change a few lines; moved one to Vercel where it built fine, though calls Cloudflare great.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 784 days ago
Runs Next.js on Cloudflare Pages with Cloudflare image transformation, paying about $3 for 7K images plus a $5 Workers plan, and saw big LCP gains.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 791 days ago
Deploying a Next.js app to Cloudflare Pages hit the 25 MiB Functions bundle limit and required refactoring and removing features.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 796 days ago
Tried Netlify and Fly for a Remix site and found Netlify easy to start with, a solid admin site and git-merge deploys in a few clicks.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 796 days ago
Says Cloudflare has really won them over for hosting Remix, with great experience, pricing and features.
Reddit · r/reactjs · 796 days ago
Spent hours failing to deploy a Turborepo Remix monorepo through Cloudflare git deployments, while Netlify and Vercel worked as expected.
Reddit · r/aws · 802 days ago
Used for the React frontend deploy with a Lambda backend and working well, with different accounts per environment and infrastructure kept in Terraform, and no issues.
Reddit · r/webdev · 809 days ago
They host dozens of websites and web apps on Vercel and call it a no brainer because of the ease of use.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 818 days ago
Vercel bill jumped five times after the new pricing model for a mostly static SSR site with about 3,000 daily users, driven by millions of edge requests costing up to 10 dollars a day.
Reddit · r/nextjs · 818 days ago
Stays within Vercel Pro on sites with 10,000-plus daily users by caching on Vercel and Cloudflare and disabling prefetching; finds even cached requests billed and the price outrageous, but the free and pro plans generous if you optimise.