Vercel
I’m exploring a new stack
- React / Next.js
- Vercel
- Supabase
So I can
- work on this professionaly for a client
- put my company website https://hmsoftware.co.uk/ onto a TailwindCSS template which uses Next.js
- create marketing emails using https://react.email/
Hosting on Vercel
First impressions as a ‘hobbyist’ level is that the UI is great and just works when I connected my GH account.
Turn off Deployment Protection so anyone can see the site.
Domains
https://vercel.com/docs/projects/domains/add-a-domain
Very interesting that vercel recommend adding a redirect to the www name and not the apex. deatils
Also interesting they don’t use a CNAME like Netlify do (this is my dnsimple DNS interface before I made the A record change to vercel)
Updated
SSL Cert
Vercel generates one using LetsEncrypt. It took some minutes. A good integration.
Limits
Pro is $20 per user/month.
- Custom Domains 50 (Hobby)
- Data Transfer 100GB per month (Hobby), 1TB (Pro)
- Edge Requests (ie every request) 1M per month, 10M per month.
- 1000 images per month, 5000 per month
On the Pro side there are alerts on spending and overages. And you can turn off the site if it hits it so Netlify horror story one doesn’t get a massive bill if there is a DDoS.
Web Analytics
- 2,500 events/month on hobby
- 1 month history
Speed Insights
Just js injected into the page - like google one.
Firewall
Real time and up to 1 day of traffic on hobby.
Conclusion
After a few days I’m very impressed.