alt Hacker NewsWhy is everyone using Vercel and the likes anyway?
Setting up a VPS with Node takes ten minutes and is miles cheaper. And it's not like you never have to debug issues with serverless configurations, which can even occasionally be harder to debug because of their proprietary natures.
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vimda • yesterday at 5:37 PM
This is the Dropbox problem. People are willing to pay for convenience, and tech folks tend to underestimate how much convenience comes from seemingly simple solutions
aeternum • yesterday at 9:51 PM
Most people don't know what VPS and Node are.
laughingcurve • yesterday at 5:53 PM
It’s just that simple!
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Fam...
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They spend $$$ on marketing to execs. A couple of months ago my CEO came to me with a $30k Vercel app I could have done for $1500 on our own hardware.