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Alternative PAAS without the gotchas? Would appreciate proven alternatives. Thanks.

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Coolify, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages (and Workers), Fly.io, Render, Railway...

Even GCP Firebase and AWS Amplify almost qualify as PaaS.

The only one that I would point out as better is Render, as it allows for containers, all others are worse than Vercel, in tooling, and supported languages for serverless on the backend.

Cloudflare Workers are awesome. You can do a lot on the $5 tier. Their CLI tool `wrangler` is quite excellent.

Code generation tools know their APIs and they have excellent docs, so getting up and running isn't very difficult.

PSA: Railway just had this recent f*ck up - https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

It's not Railway's fault that he didn't read the docs and thought it'd be a good idea to play Russian roulette.

lifeof_jer had this fuck-up, not Railway.

None of which are nearly as beginner friendly as vercel.

And with Vercel you get to pay to stay a beginner forever.

It’s a tradeoff.

I've had a great experience with cloudflare pages. It doesn't get much easier than using their cli (wrangler) to sync up a local folder. I suppose the exception is SSR, but then again I absolutely despise SSR so I don't think it counts.

Do they finally support native compiled languages like Vercel?

Webassembly doesn't count.

I hated pages until I started using the cli. I have started using it more for prototypes, etc. can’t beat it for the price.

I'm going to plug Cloud 66 here for you as well. You get a happy middle between a fully managed PaaS and running your own servers.

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