Vercel, we need to talk

I give my honest review for Vercel in this video. Vercel is doing a lot of work in the frontend cloud so let's take a moment to discuss about the recent things Vercel has been doing.

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[junedkhatri]

Vercel is basically being Apple in cloud market. Vendor locking, Keynote, Pricing, it is all just Apple things.

[appjeniksaan]

My take-away from the recent Vercel announcements is that they realised that money is no longer free and they need to start balancing their costs. To do this they will focus on enterprises where they assume they will rather have one vendor to deal with than multiple. The interesting thing is going to be if those enterprises also realise money ain't free anymore, and they might make some different decisions. 

It all feels a bit like Firebase a couple of years ago. I understand they need to make money, but the fact that getting in is cheap just makes it extra obvious how quickly it gets expensive once you start to scale.

[JagdishAdusumalli]

A good idea would be to build a site/ tool which pull ups prices of various IaaS and PaaS services/ products, shows us a comparison and helps us decide in which scenario which provider will be best like (Small app/ Big App/ Millions of Users/ High bandwidth consumption etc ). to begin with AWS, GCP, Azure, Vercel, . the products range is too big but we can buld this app as FOSS with basic important services comparison and slowly add more providers and products. This can shape up slowly into a helpful price analyser tool

[deepakraj]

Nice. With time Vercel charges are out of my budget. I reached out to them for an enterprise plan but denied saying company size isn't enough😢. Now, we are exploring avenues to setup similar architecture into our organisation itself.

[hollyaleman]

If you're trying to launch a startup and expect 1000-10000 users in the first 6 months with basic text and image interactions. What is the best hosting service? My web app will be in Laravel and will not be visited like normal sites, just during events.

[tears_falling]

FINALLY someone not buying their shit 😭

the TypeScript youtubers have gone mad

[subhamjaguri]

hey Mehul,

Just curious is your backend still serverless or you have shifted to serverfull ?

[redhood]

What's your goto solution for Image optimization services like Vercel?

[random]

can I make you of api in frontend work with. {method : "GET"} and fetch(url, options)
or it is not possible because it's a server less api

[JonBrookes]

I too wondered at the cost of the vercel new offerings and had come across reports of high usage bills being issued to sme's when ddos'ed - ie prior to these service 'improvement', vercel seem to ramp up charges very agressively if your usage breaches an initial limit - so the 'stepping' of charges seem to be excessive. Im not convinced either

[ziadirida]

It is cost effective given the time savings for startups. It is a good deal as long as your volumes are small. Should architect with a migration strategy in mind for when you grain market traction and grow exponentially in volumes with lagging revenue.

[random]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Why vercel is a server less hosting platform just because we don't have to worry about the hehind the screen what going on server, ,,,is that the reason please reply 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[tapank]

creating developer friendly experience and reselling aws services.

[salifunjidda]

love your videos bro. have just one problem the backend course you gave on your website, i wish you could make it free. The intro is very educative and straight

[chinmoykr]

how r2 bandwidth is free? it changes everything

[YOUdudex]

Nice video, how are images handled on codedamn? Next Images is very convenient

[binamralamsal]

16:00, you are horribly wrong about Server Actions. For some reasons, my comment about explaining it is being deleted by youtube.

[mattd]

sorry but where is Neon offering 730h per month? because the free tier only includes 100 hours. I can't find any reference to the free 730 hours

[redhood]

Nothing annoys me more than Vercel fanboys. We really need a neutral, level-headed look at the Vercel and their dealings

[izpodpolja]

I think you missed the point of server actions.