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Reddit · r/squarespace · yesterday

Rebuilt a Squarespace site and hosted it from GitHub with Cloudflare, ending up with a better site at a much lower cost.

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 · 509 days ago

Has really enjoyed their experience with Netlify.

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

Hosts three 11ty sites on Netlify and loves it.

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 · 652 days ago

Calls Netlify great and simpler to use than Vercel.

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.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 818 days ago

Moved all their sites to Vercel and now some get paused for part of the month after hitting plan limits.

Reddit · r/webdev · 825 days ago

Likes Netlify for GitHub integration, generous free tier, preview deploys and easy config, and has never had a reason to try anything else.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 835 days ago

They hosted a single index.html on GitHub Pages with a GoDaddy domain and setup went smoothly. Weeks later an unverified-domain subdomain takeover put malware on a subdomain.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 837 days ago

Uses Cloudflare Pages and finds it amazing and insanely cheap, but some endpoints randomly return Internal Server Error until redeployed.

Reddit · r/webdev · 852 days ago

With Netlify DNS they could not delete the old A record without removing the whole domain, forcing a rushed site move with downtime.

Reddit · r/aws · 854 days ago

Very opinionated, with CI/CD that does not allow Docker-in-Docker builds, so only the hosting part is used alongside CDK, which keeps switching easy.

Reddit · r/aws · 854 days ago

Inherited a project where the CLI felt clunky and buggy, so the backend moved to Terraform and only the frontend app stayed on it; it was so flaky they wondered what they had missed.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 854 days ago

Uploaded a GitHub repo to Vercel on a whim and within ten minutes the app was live on their domain; now just merges to main to deploy.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 859 days ago

Moved static image sites from Vercel to Cloudflare Pages but saw about 35,000 function requests a day for 500 page views despite static assets being advertised as unlimited.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 862 days ago

Adding a first developer to a Vercel hobby plan jumps cost from 0 to 40 dollars a month and 20 more per extra user, with no change in compute, so they looked for alternatives.

Reddit · r/webdev · 863 days ago

Describes Vercel as selling a platform and infrastructure team; a rip-off if you can run infra yourself, but a decent, Heroku-like product for small teams who just want a deploy button.

Reddit · r/webdev · 864 days ago

Deploys a portfolio on Vercel and has consulted for enterprises and startups using it; calls it a decent platform with CI/CD, CDN and previews handled.

Reddit · r/webdev · 864 days ago

Got a Next.js app deployed on the Vercel hobby plan in about ten minutes from start to finish.

Reddit · r/webdev · 885 days ago

They use Firebase Auth, Hosting and Analytics in many projects on top of GCP and have had a good experience each time.

Reddit · r/webdev · 885 days ago

They run their personal website on the free tier and like that the service shuts off at the maximums, with no billing info on file.

Reddit · r/webdev · 885 days ago

They pay about two cents, like the CLI for launching previews, get a free SSL certificate, and would use it again, without using advanced features.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 888 days ago

Hosts fully fledged SvelteKit headless Shopify stores on Vercel where ISR caching is a one-liner.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 888 days ago

At a company of about 500 employees and a couple million users, they heavily use Vercel for intense traffic and even as an API host, and can negotiate better deals at that scale.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 889 days ago

A project they work on received a 20,000 dollar Vercel bill from a small usage spike and, after migrating to AWS Lambda, no longer comes close to that.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 889 days ago

A SvelteKit project on Vercel for work gets 50k intermittent hits and costs only the 20 dollar Pro plan, with Supabase on the backend.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 889 days ago

Runs SvelteKit on Cloudflare Pages at similar user numbers for less than 100 dollars a month and says it works great.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 889 days ago

Says Cloudflare Pages works flawlessly and is much faster than Vercel, still on the generous free tier of 100k requests a day, though it lacks Node built-in modules.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 902 days ago

Two SvelteKit games on Cloudflare Pages get user reports of JavaScript not loading and stale mobile CSS that the owner cannot reproduce or explain.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 906 days ago

After four reliable years on the Vercel Pro plan, a DDoS attack produced a bill over 800 dollars because the next 1,000 units cost 400; support refused to cancel the charges and they moved to Railway.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 908 days ago

Runs SvelteKit on Cloudflare Pages with edge functions and caching, getting TTFB about 40ms above the CDN baseline, and is happy with it.

Reddit · r/webdev · 923 days ago

Has run many millions of hits on static sites through Cloudflare Pages and calls it perfect as long as the site is fully static.

Reddit · r/webdev · 923 days ago

Runs a full map application on Cloudflare Pages with static JS and HTML and data fetched from their own API, and says it works well.

Reddit · r/webdev · 923 days ago

Runs their site as Astro SSR on Cloudflare Pages through the framework adapter.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 932 days ago

Their Next.js 14 app runs very slowly on a paid Static Web Apps plan and throws backend call failure errors several times a day, with nothing in the logs.

Reddit · r/webflow · 937 days ago

Netlify began charging for forms; they got a pay-or-suspend email, left it, and their account was suspended.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 938 days ago

They like Firebase Hosting for how it ties in with Cloud Run and Cloud Functions, and for preview channels integrated into pull request workflows.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 938 days ago

They use Firebase Hosting to proxy to Cloud Run, where it acts as a CDN that manages caching. They call it easy and powerful.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 940 days ago

They hosted their app on Vercel free tier and were warned by email that serverless functions had used 75% of the included 100 GB-hours, and are considering moving elsewhere.

Reddit · r/MSFTAzureSupport · 940 days ago

App started throwing 404 errors all morning despite no deployments in over a week and green status pages.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 940 days ago

Testing Next.js 13 on Cloudflare Pages gave poor results: every server route must use the Edge Runtime and next/image optimisation is not supported out of the box.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 942 days ago

They moved their small static site to an Azure Static Web App and found custom domain setup with managed certificates trivial, expecting it to cost nothing.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 942 days ago

Runs about 10 SvelteKit sites on Cloudflare Pages and finds setup pretty straightforward by following the docs.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 942 days ago

Has successfully deployed about 20 SvelteKit apps on Vercel.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 944 days ago

Found Vercel pages could take seconds to load after idling, Cloudflare blocks hit during an onboarding spike, and 15-20 minute releases despite dedicated builds, so they migrated a SPA to S3 at about 5 dollars versus 100.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 952 days ago

After Vercel pricing changes their bill is projected at 867 to 951 dollars, much of it image optimisation, which they now have to disable and look at Bunny or Cloudflare to cut bandwidth.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 952 days ago

A site with nearly a million pages faced a projected two to three times Vercel price increase after new per-request pricing, then switched to Azure; still calls Vercel a great product with easy production deploys and great developer experience.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 952 days ago

Saw a 100 dollar monthly increase on Vercel because the new pricing also charges by number of requests, and turned off link prefetching to reduce it.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 952 days ago

Loves Next-on-Pages on Cloudflare Pages so far and calls the pricing model fantastic.

Reddit · r/webdev · 963 days ago

Vouches for Cloudflare Pages as excellent value for static site builds.

Reddit · r/webdev · 964 days ago

They found Netlify the only option of those compared that worked easily for them.

Reddit · r/webdev · 964 days ago

They had a great experience on Vercel's free tier for personal Next.js projects.

Reddit · r/webdev · 964 days ago

They find Vercel DNS setup more comfortable than Netlify and think Vercel keeps improving, while they saw occasional App Router issues on Netlify.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 971 days ago

Moving a portfolio from Vercel to Cloudflare Pages made it quite a bit faster.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 972 days ago

Vercel alone cost about $2,670 in a month for a Next.js site with 70k daily users, so they sought to cut the expense.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 973 days ago

Votes for Cloudflare Pages and calls it wicked fast.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 976 days ago

Moved a Next.js app from AWS Amplify to Vercel because initial render dropped from 4 seconds to 0.5 seconds with the same code.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 977 days ago

Uses Vercel for a hobby project and found the just-point-it-at-your-repo approach an amazing experience, after building deployment systems for bigger apps.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 985 days ago

Wanted to go fully Cloudflare for a SvelteKit service but hit Node compatibility issues with Pages and used Vercel instead.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

A static site of about 200 daily visitors on the Netlify free tier got a 104,500 dollar bandwidth bill from a DDoS and support first offered only a 95 percent discount.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Netlify shows 75MB of 100GB used, but only the fine print reveals 55 dollars per extra 100GB on the so-called free tier.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Moved a static site from Netlify to Cloudflare for DDoS protection and no bandwidth charges and says it has been good so far.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Got a surprise overage bill showing 70M requests in a day on a 600-visit site while Google Analytics showed no spike; support refunded it.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Quit Netlify after being charged horrendous amounts for basically nothing, which felt like a scam.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Received a 350 dollar bill from Netlify and is cancelling the account.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Hosts a site with many hi-res images on Cloudflare Pages and it has been free.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Runs several sites on Cloudflare Pages with GitHub that cost nothing.

Reddit · r/webdev · 990 days ago

Finds Cloudflare Pages pleasant for static sites with better pricing than Vercel and plans to move personal projects there.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 990 days ago

Had a great experience with Cloudflare Pages, with a generous free tier plus D1 database and storage, though Next image optimization is not supported.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 990 days ago

Runs a couple of production websites on Cloudflare Pages and says it is working great, with image resizing handled by a loader.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 998 days ago

Highly recommends Netlify: click upload and you are done, with a very generous free tier.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 998 days ago

A huge fan of Cloudflare Pages for hobby projects, with a free tier, GitHub auto-deploy and DNS controls in one place.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1003 days ago

They found Netlify great at the start, but say it suddenly began charging, and a lot, so it is no longer free for them.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1009 days ago

They use Netlify and describe it as pretty good.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1013 days ago

After six years on Netlify with 20 sites, an unpaid bill plus an unexplained phishing flag took the sites down and support gave confusing answers until a supervisor restored them.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1025 days ago

Their company used Vercel early on but hosting hit about 4,000 dollars in one month with heavy serverless usage; moved to Netlify at about 1,200 dollars a month.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1025 days ago

Says Vercel platform benefits are real: new features arrive automatically and they never break anything.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1026 days ago

Migrated Next.js projects from AWS to Vercel; a little more expensive but the value added is enormous and frees time for billable work.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1029 days ago

Has found Cloudflare Pages completely seamless for deploying dozens of SvelteKit apps and integrating with Workers, Queues, R2 and KV.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1030 days ago

Hosts a client SvelteKit site on the Cloudflare Pages free tier at $0 a month, helping mainly as a CDN.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1037 days ago

They find Vercel pretty nice but say they have to constantly watch how fast their expenses there grow.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 1049 days ago

They have used GitHub Pages for their custom domain for about two years. Setup was a little odd at first but they have had no problems since.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1050 days ago

Hosts about 70 and later 170 client sites on Netlify under one account with forms and builds well within limits and no problems.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1066 days ago

Set a static site up on Netlify and found it very easy and free.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1072 days ago

They have hosted their portfolio and other static projects on GitHub Pages for many years without problems. They note it is static only and its CDN can be a little slow sometimes.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1076 days ago

Runs a Next.js 14 application on Amplify without any issues.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1078 days ago

They have not run into resource-usage style billing on Vercel, though they note their projects may be smaller than the original poster's.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1078 days ago

They switched to SvelteKit with Supabase and Vercel recently and say they could not be happier.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1094 days ago

Their old Netlify account was flagged for fraud, with only generic emails and demands for photo ID, and no explanation.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1100 days ago

They use Netlify for static sites mainly because its forms service is handy, and call it super neat.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1100 days ago

They use Cloudflare Pages and say the free limits are very high, never having reached them. They also found it super easy to connect a GitHub repo and publish.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1110 days ago

Had a very bad experience when Vercel did not handle a DDoS well and charged a large bill claiming it was real traffic, which led them to self-host on EC2.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1110 days ago

Says the best Vercel feature is deployment-per-branch, which no other provider offers as seamlessly, along with easy environment variable pasting.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 1112 days ago

They moved a static business site from a roughly 70 dollars a year host to GitLab Pages with Cloudflare and say it works great, though Cloudflare turned out not to support their regional TLD.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1113 days ago

A developer's team hosts some apps on Netlify at work and hasn't had problems with build minutes.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1113 days ago

A Netlify free tier user ran out of build minutes, so they had to turn off automatic deploys and now trigger them by hand.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer recently started hosting simple sites on Netlify and is pleased with how easy git-push deploys and custom domains are.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer hosts a number of Nuxt sites on Netlify's free tier, which also handles basic form submissions.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer uses Azure Static Web Apps for free hosting and likes its GitHub walkthrough with a ready deployment action.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer runs a React app on AWS Amplify and pays only for the domain; hosting has cost nothing so far.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer hosts their portfolio on Netlify and only pays 16 euros a year for the domain, with CI/CD and easy env setup included.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer hosts a few projects on Vercel for free, noting some vendor lock-in.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer always uses Firebase Hosting for small sites because the free tier covers their traffic.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1114 days ago

A developer built a huge Hugo site with tens of thousands of pages on GitHub Pages and everything, including build speed, works fine.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1118 days ago

They personally host their own projects on Vercel and love it, and are asking how Pro team billing works for client sites.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1130 days ago

Hosts customer sites on Netlify, where pushing code builds and deploys it, and was shocked how easy it is to get a live site for free.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 1136 days ago

Their GitHub Pages site with a custom domain worked at first, then stopped serving over wifi and later on cellular too with a Too many redirects error. Adding Cloudflare did not fix it.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1137 days ago

They got a GitHub CI pipeline deploying a Next 13 app to Static Web Apps, but MSAL authentication fails once deployed even though it works locally, which they find frustrating.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1139 days ago

They gave up on Static Web Apps and moved to a custom container on App Service, which they say performs better with far fewer odd gotchas.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1141 days ago

Finds Vercel awesome for deployment but worries about 20 for 1TB and 55 per extra 100GB, and Cloudflare Pages would not run their SSR app.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1143 days ago

They tried Static Web Apps and App Service for a Next.js app and called it a nightmare, with failing builds, deployments hanging for hours and half-rendered pages. They moved to Vercel instead.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1144 days ago

As a Vercel Pro customer hit many Next.js regressions on a minor upgrade and a 14-hour outage where deployments made every page return 500.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1145 days ago

A SaaS cofounder was hit by three poorly communicated Vercel breaking changes, including Node 14 end of life and halved function timeouts, and plans to switch providers.

Reddit · r/FlutterDev · 1155 days ago

Powerful for IoT apps and deep AWS integrations with Lambda, DynamoDB, and Cognito, though DataStore and initial setup are much trickier than Firebase.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1157 days ago

They have used Netlify free static hosting for years and still find it almost too good to be true. Their only caveat is that it is static hosting without server-side code.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1158 days ago

They host their personal site on GitHub Pages by building an Angular app and deploying the minified bundle from a branch, and say they love it.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1166 days ago

Next.js App Router on Netlify did not work without downgrading, and a new paid account was ignored on a 100-reply support thread; they canceled and moved to a Node.js container deployment.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1167 days ago

Needing an IP range to whitelist a database for SOC 2, Vercel Secure Compute was quoted at mid-four figures a month with a 12-month minimum, so they moved the backend off Vercel.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1174 days ago

Hit the Cloudflare Pages free CPU limit occasionally and pays $5 a month for the paid plan, saying it is worth every penny.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1174 days ago

Even a basic email/password login page on SvelteKit exceeded Cloudflare Pages free-plan 10ms CPU limit, making the free tier very limiting.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1176 days ago

Moved production apps between Vercel and Amplify in under an hour of dev time with effectively no downtime, noting that storage such as databases and files is the hardest part to move.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1176 days ago

Separating infrastructure and managing full Next.js support through CDK took far more effort than expected.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1177 days ago

Liked Vercel and its DX but after shipping three SaaS apps got sick of the 60-second function timeout on the 20 dollar plan and switched to Railway, which Vercel then promised to fix with 5-minute functions.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1177 days ago

Has been using Netlify and is overall happy.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1177 days ago

Uses Netlify right now and finds it pretty good.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1177 days ago

Calls Cloudflare Pages honestly incredible, costing nothing for a site with over 100,000 monthly active users.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1177 days ago

Moved everything from Vercel to Cloudflare for amazing speed, pairing it with Hetzner for anything needing file access, which is stupidly cheap and incredibly reliable.

Reddit · r/webflow · 1180 days ago

They moved four websites off Webflow site plans to Netlify free hosting, noting it needs a paid Udesly tool and suits sites that are not updated often.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1191 days ago

Calls Cloudflare Pages great, very fast and very cheap, though Next.js ISR does not work on it.

Reddit · r/sveltejs · 1200 days ago

Finds SvelteKit great on Cloudflare Pages, praising the ease of deployment and quick prod testing, though the edge needs a different architecture.

Reddit · r/reactjs · 1202 days ago

Finds Vercel serverless has warm-up time and cold starts that hurt, and environment variable handling is limited, so they are considering moving the Next app to their own Kubernetes cluster for speed and cost.

Reddit · r/reactjs · 1203 days ago

Converting semi-large 200,000-plus monthly visitor sites to a headless React CMS on Vercel with SSG, expecting to pay next to nothing versus over 1,200 dollars a month for a robust WordPress setup.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1207 days ago

Netlify suspended their account as fraud without warning, taking down their agency sites and DNS email, until later unsuspended as a false positive.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1214 days ago

They gave up on Firebase Hosting for a Next.js 13.4 app because their NextAuth setup and server API calls did not work.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1227 days ago

Switched from Vercel to Netlify to allow AdSense; UI is nice though DNS setup was hard and caused 20 minutes of downtime.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

They host an Angular SPA on GitHub Pages for free and find the custom-domain CNAME documentation simple, with GitHub Actions giving easy CI/CD.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

They report that Netlify's CDN on the free tier is pretty slow outside the US.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

As a designer and hobby developer, they find Firebase very intuitive and well documented, even beyond static sites.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

They host their Gatsby-generated personal site on Azure Static Web Apps' free tier, and pointing it at their GitHub repo set up continuous deployment.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

They use Amplify for one of their projects with simple setup and usage-based pay, but note a cold start after idle minutes can take up to 10 seconds.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

They gave Netlify access to their repository and it detects merges to main and deploys automatically.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

Netlify has been their go-to; they like that it rebuilds on every push to their GitHub main branch and can deploy several branches for testing.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

They use Netlify connected to GitHub and find it free and very easy to set up, with near instant updates on push.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1245 days ago

They still use Surge regularly for hosting static sites and React projects.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1250 days ago

Says a Next.js app deploys to Netlify without problems with auto-detection and support for image optimization, SSR and RSC.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1256 days ago

They spent many hours trying to deploy Next.js 13 on Firebase but could not get the hosting part working. They gave up and moved to Vercel.

Reddit · r/webdev · 1256 days ago

They host several single-page apps on GitHub Pages using custom .com domains bought elsewhere.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1266 days ago

They dislike Vercel because of cold starts. They find it reliable and cost effective for light backends, but projects with heavy dependencies perform poorly.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1266 days ago

They host their Next.js project on Vercel and found deployment easy. They like the free hobby tier, CI/CD and built-in basic analytics.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 1281 days ago

They hit a cookie-stripping problem on Firebase Hosting that broke persistent NextAuth sessions and cost them countless hours of debugging. They advise using Cloud Run instead if sessions are needed.