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Cool! I think with the popularity of next, SSR react frameworks are here to stay. My biggest gripe with next is how much I dislike vercel, currently looking at

Cool! I think with the popularity of next, SSR react frameworks are here to stay. My biggest gripe with next is how much I dislike vercel, currently looking at alternatives. But nicely done! I'll play around with it

jensneuse 4y ago
Can you elaborate on this? What do you dislike about Vercel?
- TheFragenTaken 4y ago
  Interested to hear this too. My only gripe with them, is it's difficult to distinguish between the popularity of Next.js because it's good, or because they've hired an army of people (at Vercel) to talk about it.
  - davidjaenike 4y ago
    Yea next and vercel are definitely tight! I'm thinking of switching my next projects over to digitalocean
- davidjaenike 4y ago
  1) Vercel serverless functions, or AWS lambdas, have a cold boot-up time after a period of inactivity. So basically the site goes to sleep if you're using SSR 2) I've noticed their SSLs don't work on older browsers (not that it's a huge deal, but I have some old macs which block their site, and any site hosted with them)
  - leerob 4y ago
    Hey there, sorry about this experience. You can now use Edge Functions on Vercel, which have almost no cold boot: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/edge-functions https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/edge-functions Would love to hear more about the SSL issues. Would you mind sending more info to lee at vercel .com?
    - davidjaenike 4y ago
      Sounds good, I'll check out those edge functions. I do really like that you guys have a free tier! And yes, I can send over some more info on the SSL stuff (mac model/year, browser version, etc)
- o_m 4y ago
  I work at a web agency, and we reached the 10 user limit, and that means we have to be an enterprise customer which makes it 10-20 times the price we are paying already. We ended up removing one user and were looking for another provider. When we told the sales person from Vercel the price was high we got told we are not the kind of customer they want.
- ENGNR 4y ago
  I also gave them a look, but it seems their bandwidth pricing is significantly higher than hosting it yourself, so the price accelerates much more aggressively with number of users. That much price variability is just too much of a risk (compared to a flatter/more predictable price) when you're also locking into a custom stack and can't migrate out as easily

jensneuse 4y ago

Can you elaborate on this? What do you dislike about Vercel?

TheFragenTaken 4y ago
Interested to hear this too. My only gripe with them, is it's difficult to distinguish between the popularity of Next.js because it's good, or because they've hired an army of people (at Vercel) to talk about it.
- davidjaenike 4y ago
  Yea next and vercel are definitely tight! I'm thinking of switching my next projects over to digitalocean
davidjaenike 4y ago
1) Vercel serverless functions, or AWS lambdas, have a cold boot-up time after a period of inactivity. So basically the site goes to sleep if you're using SSR 2) I've noticed their SSLs don't work on older browsers (not that it's a huge deal, but I have some old macs which block their site, and any site hosted with them)
- leerob 4y ago
  Hey there, sorry about this experience. You can now use Edge Functions on Vercel, which have almost no cold boot: https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/edge-functions https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/functions/edge-functions Would love to hear more about the SSL issues. Would you mind sending more info to lee at vercel .com?
  - davidjaenike 4y ago
    Sounds good, I'll check out those edge functions. I do really like that you guys have a free tier! And yes, I can send over some more info on the SSL stuff (mac model/year, browser version, etc)
o_m 4y ago
I work at a web agency, and we reached the 10 user limit, and that means we have to be an enterprise customer which makes it 10-20 times the price we are paying already. We ended up removing one user and were looking for another provider. When we told the sales person from Vercel the price was high we got told we are not the kind of customer they want.
ENGNR 4y ago
I also gave them a look, but it seems their bandwidth pricing is significantly higher than hosting it yourself, so the price accelerates much more aggressively with number of users. That much price variability is just too much of a risk (compared to a flatter/more predictable price) when you're also locking into a custom stack and can't migrate out as easily