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It's unclear from the readme whether this supports Next.js's Incremental Static Regeneration (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/04/incremental-static-...) that talks to the CMS every X seconds, diffs for changes, and rebuilds only the affected page if it detects any. It makes Vercel a lot faster at updating pages than Cloudflare Pages (which, by default, is only a static page server and doesn't do ISR... though maybe it's possible to hack Next.js to use Cloudflare Workers to do that instead, not sure).

Vercel is a lot more expensive than either Cloudflare Pages or Amazon Cloudfront.

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It does not support ISR yet. If Vercel's price is a concern ($20/mo), you can always self-host. ISR works with `next start` out of the box.

For multi-container workloads with autoscaling or persisted cached entires to static storage, you'd need to write some code on the hosting side. Vercel is handling that piece for you, plus adding you to rollback and not lose your previously generated pages.

I believe they're working on ISR support, which is awesome!

Thanks for the insights!

Re: Vercel, it's not the $20/mo that's expensive, but their exorbitant bandwidth and serverless charges once you scale to actual production usage. Their plans are great for hobbyist projects that fall within fair use limits, but it gets really expensive to scale up past that. Their CDN cost is something like 10x what Fastly (their underlying backbone) would charge you directly, and a lot more than Cloudfront too. I mean, I get that they have to make profit, but they don't build their own infrastructure (mostly Fastly and a bit of AWS, I believe).

I don't think there are any other hosts that have out-of-the-box support for 100% of Next.js's features (ISR, image loaders, page rewrite rules, etc.). A lot of it only works by magic and only on Vercel. Would love to see Ness keep evolving, and especially if it supports infrastructure other than AWS.

100% Next.js support on Cloudflare would be the holy grail, with an unmetered CDN and super fast, super affordable serverless workers (albeit JS only, no Node).

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