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It's a great idea for a service, but the pricing just seems too simplistic.
How can $20/month flat pricing realistically work? What if I've got a content-heavy site that gets a lot of traffic? Will I get hit with a surprise bill, or will you eat the costs and just cut me off? It's a great idea for a service, but the pricing just seems too simplistic.
...any backend that is a content-heavy website? Or are they somehow also abstracting away the application logic? How is this different from a CDN cache?
No way? At all? Why could they not deface or alter the static version? Of course there's a lot less attack surface but that doesn't mean it's invulnerable.
How can $20/month flat pricing realistically work? What if I've got a content-heavy site that gets a lot of traffic? Will I get hit with a surprise bill, or will you eat the costs and just cut me off? It's a great idea for a service, but the pricing just seems too simplistic.
The hosting is managed by Vercel, who recently announced unlimited bandwidth on their free plan [1] [1]: https://vercel.com/blog/simpler-pricing
So the bigger question then is what happens when they change this? Or go away. Also, have you seen what "Additionally, different hard limits apply for each plan." means on their pricing page[1]? Domain limits, maximum files, etc? What those might mean when you scale beyond expectation?
I don't mean to discourage. But big vendors pull the rug out from under people all the time, sometimes ruining a business because there's no viable alternative.
Make sure your eggs can be put in different baskets if need be.
Edit: This is not a problem for a lot of pages. But to me that is a deal breaker to use Vercel for any medium or large sized projects.
This costs $20/month, what happens when someone releases an open source version that essentially does the same thing but for free?
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The hosting is managed by Vercel, who recently announced unlimited bandwidth on their free plan [1] [1]: https://vercel.com/blog/simpler-pricing
Yikes. So the bigger question then is what happens when they change this? Or go away. Also, have you seen what "Additionally, different hard limits apply for each plan." means on their pricing page[1]? Domain limits, maximum files, etc? What those might mean when you scale beyond expectation? I don't mean to discourage. But big vendors pull the rug out from under people all the time, sometimes ruining a business beca…