Vercel Hosting Debates

Discussions revolve around user experiences with Vercel as a deployment platform, including praises for ease of use, criticisms of pricing and business model alignment, tight integration with Next.js, and comparisons to alternatives like Heroku, Cloudflare, and DigitalOcean.

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wirybeige Mar 28, 2025 View on HN

We do not use vercel. Unfortunate that the experience varies so much.

baalimago Oct 7, 2025 View on HN

Not sure why the comparison is to Vercel when it probably should be compared to Coolify/Dokploy

lulznews Apr 5, 2024 View on HN

Is vercel just hosting for react devs?

Lukas1994 Oct 24, 2022 View on HN

If possible definitely use Vercel :)

mdhb Feb 27, 2024 View on HN

Id recommend avoiding Vercel like the plague. Their entire business model is poorly aligned with your interests as a customer.

ilrwbwrkhv Jul 30, 2022 View on HN

Vercel is going down this path now.

vlucas Apr 13, 2021 View on HN

Vercel is the new Heroku. Same ease of use, MUCH better architecture and cost structure.

friedman23 Feb 2, 2022 View on HN

Vercel is really good, I see no reason to use heroku.

jensneuse Oct 13, 2022 View on HN

Can you elaborate on this? What do you dislike about Vercel?

rKarpinski Feb 27, 2024 View on HN

Doesn't make me feel great about Vercel either (which I was looking at)