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If you're only paying $3-5 on Linode then your level of usage would probably be comfortably at $0 on Vercel.

It could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month.

Does Vercel do the same?

No, I run several small websites on Vercel for free for years, always served static pages very quickly

Render offers free static sites that are served via a CDN and load instantly: https://render.com/docs/static-sites

When I said landing page, I had contact forms and more in mind, not documentation sites.

But that is news to me. Interesting. Although for static sites, I always use Netlify or even GitHub pages.

Static pages, sure. But what do you do if you want a contact form or something? Yeah, you can use services like formspree, but then you may end up paying $20/month for that alone. Perhaps I'm just ignorant.

No.

Repeating a prior comment I've made about this[0]: I run a rust webserver on a €4 VPS from hetzner that serves 300M (million) requests a day.

From what I can figure out, Vercel charges "$0.60 per million invocations" [1], which would cost me $180 per day.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611454 [1] https://vercel.com/docs/functions/usage-and-pricing#invocati...

I run a Rust webserver on a literal Pi3 in my basement and I think I managed to bench it up >1000 rps for standard loads. And that includes a bunch of tanvity querying as well.

I suspect I could do 3000+ rps with some tuning and a more modern CPU or hetzner VPS, but there's some fun cachet from running on an old Pi while there's still headroom.

Makes sense considering the quality of Vercel's security response and customer communication.

What if they have an actual back-end with long-running processes and scheduled tasks?

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