Looks like their rampant vibe coding is starting to catch up to them. Expect to see many pre vulns like this in the future.
Vercel April 2026 security incident
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Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#92What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
I suppose their market is one click deployments. Maybe for non technical people or people not willing to deal with infra.
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#93What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
0.82% of homes are burglarized every year. Meaning since 2015, you’ve got an 8.2% chance of having someone walk out with that box. Hopefully there’s nothing precious on it.
If they have good backuos, no worries. Mine is in a locked colo cage in a datacenter, so I'm not worried either.
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#94What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
0.82% of homes are burglarized every year. Meaning since 2015, you’ve got an 8.2% chance of having someone walk out with that box. Hopefully there’s nothing precious on it.
They didn't imply the box was at their home and that probability is off
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#95What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
it's free for newbies and everyone, ofc it's a trap but freemium model gets people. aws can cost easily few thousands with 2-3 mistakes and clicks. vercel makes you start free then if you grow they bill you 10x-100x aws
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#96What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
0.82% of homes are burglarized every year. Meaning since 2015, you’ve got an 8.2% chance of having someone walk out with that box. Hopefully there’s nothing precious on it.
Assuming that all homes are at equal risk of being burglarized. In practice the neighborhoods I’ve seen are either at much higher risk or much lower risk.
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#97What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
You use a free template that's done in Next.js and uses its Image component, so you need a server.
Everything runs fine locally until you try to deploy it, and bam you need 4g ram machine to run the thing.
So you host it on Vercel for free cause it's easy!
Then you want to check for more than 30 seconds of analytics, and it's pay time.
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#98I'm on a macbook pro, Google Chrome 147.0.7727.56. Clicking the Vercel logo at the top left of the page hard crashes my Chrome app. Like, immediate crash. What an interesting bug.
MBP - M4 Max - Chrome 146.0.7680.178. No crash. Now I don't want to click that "Finish update" button.
if it does so happen that the crash originates from a browser exploit, you should expect to be more at risk due to the absence of a crash on an older version, not less
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#99What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
For a lot of folks, I think its ease of deployment when using Next.js. I switched to astro, also doing a lot of cloudflare at the moment. Before that, I was doing OpenNext with sst.dev on AWS but it started feeling annoying.
Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident
#100What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.
Develop experience. Ephemeral deploys. Decent observability. Decent CI options. Generous free tier.