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Re: Vercel Service Markup

#5
And I also want point out Vercel Enterprise, start from 3000$/m and I can get more things, and also cheaper, better with Cloudflare. A lot vercel features are just not really useful. (Yes, I'm talking about Next.JS)

Re: Vercel Service Markup

#8
This is a bit of a copy/paste from a comment I made in another thread like three weeks ago[1]:

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I'm very much starting to distrust these huge companies with infinite product/feature lists and generic marketing-lingo websites.

"Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration."

Seriously?

I want serverless providers that tell me the 4-5 products they offer (Compute, maybe a KV store, maybe a database, maybe some pubsub, maybe a queue?), give me the pricing, and leave me the Hell alone.

I don't want to feel locked into a system promising end-to-end whatever, ones that heavily push a certain framework, and most importantly ones that look like the homepage was designed by a team of sales people instead of a team of engineers.

It's the difference between the Cloudflare Workers website and the Vercel website: Vercel looks like the new-age big-brother con artist, while Workers looks like a utility.

Sorry, what were we talking about? A runaway bill?

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This kind of stuff is exactly why I don't trust Vercel. They're selling some """experience""" on top of utilities. This works for Apple in the non-technical space, but for developer tools? Absolutely no chance.

I wasn't going to use Vercel before, but I'm certainly not going to now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35508910

Re: Vercel Service Markup

#9
A whole industry has sprung around charging front end developers for basic server management tasks. They will quite literally pay for anything that means they don't have to SSH into Ubuntu server. The irony is they are taking on a ton of overhead with multiple services instead of learning how to set up Nginx and sudo apt install Postgres.

Re: Vercel Service Markup

#10
A while back I tried to reproduce a Vercel enterprise invoice using logs generated by an external service. After multiple round-trips with their support team I concluded it is actually impossible to verify what was billed even remotely reflected actual usage. It's essentially an AWS reseller in the form of a random number generator attached to some horrific contemporary JS, that the brand is so popular speaks more to the state of the industry than it does the suitability of their product
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