alt Hacker NewsWhat would this have costed had they used render or railway? Maybe, what, $200 a month?
Vercel's pricing is so ridiculously convoluted that you can't even cleanly compare usage. With render/railway/(insert provider of choice) you can at least predict that you're your biggest cost is going to be egress.
edit: I just saw that it gets 450m pageviews. I'm guessing on the upper end this costs ~$1k with railway + cloudflare?
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doublesocket • yesterday at 3:39 PM
Railway is getting so good I'm not sure what Vercel brings to the party anyway.
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bastardoperator • yesterday at 8:59 PM
The pricing is so bad I had to remove my CC details. One mistake and you wake up with a 50K bill for your personal project that was just you exploring.
itsTyrion • yesterday at 5:52 PM
if they had used hetzner Cloud servers, probably like 500 a month lol
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Why not bare-cloud? Esp with AI... in 10min or less an agent can deploy almost any stack to an optimal AWS setup for a fraction of the cost of any platform.