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What alternative platforms would you consider moving to that have the same features you use/need?

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Fly, Render, or (blah) straight AWS. If I was starting from scratch, I'd go all in on Next + Vercel.

Why not bare metal servers or VPS from like... DigitalOcean? What is DigitalOcean missing for your use case/preference specifically compared to Next + Vercel?

I'm not a DigitalOcean shill or employee, I'm just curious what I'm missing from a "what do other competitors out there offer".

I always thought it was like... spinup Debian/Ubuntu VPS, ssh to it, install Docker, run docker-compose or Docker Swarm or... Terraform?

mbrameld3y ago

https://vercel.com/solutions/nextjs

If you scroll down a little there's a section titled "Out-of-the-box features" that answers your question. I think the edge functions would be the hardest thing to do on your own.

gkoberger3y ago

For just the hosting, maybe. But there's so much more Heroku does, from spinning up test environments for PRs to storing secret keys (across different repos) to being a CI to monitoring to... so so much more.

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tills133y ago

Sorry but what? You're suggesting someone go from a SaaS, all-bells-and-whistles-included offering to bare metal?

vorpalhex3y ago

As someone who does what you suggest, it's great but it is a lot of overhead and not zero click. Updates, reboots, lambda functionality (autoscale, blue/green, etc) and database hosting is always complex.

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gkoberger3y ago

Fly, Render, or (blah) straight AWS. If I was starting from scratch, I'd go all in on Next + Vercel.

MuffinFlavoredOP3y ago

Why not bare metal servers or VPS from like... DigitalOcean? What is DigitalOcean missing for your use case/preference specifically compared to Next + Vercel?

I'm not a DigitalOcean shill or employee, I'm just curious what I'm missing from a "what do other competitors out there offer".

I always thought it was like... spinup Debian/Ubuntu VPS, ssh to it, install Docker, run docker-compose or Docker Swarm or... Terraform?

mbrameld3y ago

https://vercel.com/solutions/nextjs

If you scroll down a little there's a section titled "Out-of-the-box features" that answers your question. I think the edge functions would be the hardest thing to do on your own.

gkoberger3y ago

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tills133y ago

Sorry but what? You're suggesting someone go from a SaaS, all-bells-and-whistles-included offering to bare metal?

vorpalhex3y ago

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