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You can "self-host" as in `next build` and `next serve`, but it runs as a monolothic runtime. Next-on-vercel compiles each api route to a serverless function an
by grrowl 2y ago
You can "self-host" as in `next build` and `next serve`, but it runs as a monolothic runtime. Next-on-vercel compiles each api route to a serverless function and supports various additional flavours of server side rendering of pages. Open Next is being able to run like Next-on-vercel but on AWS, your own infra, Cloudflare Workers, and others.
- dvnguyen 2y agoGotcha. That means if I run Next for just frontend + server side rendering stuff then I can always self host it?
- presentation 2y agoSort of, so long as you don’t care about more complex hosting strategies eg hosting some/all of your server side code on edge servers when users visit your web app - as opposed to always sending them to a server in a set location in the world as a “normal” server architecture would typically do. Alongside not caring about prerendering and caching some pages and not others, that kind of thing