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by underdown 1175 days ago
Vercel is sooo easy. Hook it to a repo and you’re done. It’s also cheap depending on use case. Edge functions are nice. Zero complaints from me as a customer for a little over a year.

I work with a small crew and having no server maintenance lets us ship more code. Really as simple as that.
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ricardobeat 1175 days ago
The options mentioned do not require server maintenance. They are not VPSes though, and do not cost $8/month...
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josevalerio 1174 days ago
You're right I used the term interchangeably - AWS Lightsail would have been a good service comparison, and those do start at $3.50[0]. The $8 figure came from running the smallest Fargate task at .25cpu and 512mb, excluding the load balancer etc. [1]

It was announced that App Runner (today) allowed for smaller instances[2], and the price/mo for this instance would basically be 1/4th of the previous default. So ~$14 [3]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/

[1] https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=42b33d2f26786ac08a3610a...

[2] https://twitter.com/danilop/status/1643968804727271425?s=20

[3] https://calculator.aws/#/estimate?id=a46d5f15ed9c079131c6a73...

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josevalerio 1175 days ago
Took me less than 1 min to setup NextJS on AWS App Runner with auto deploys on commits, the rest was waiting for it to finish which I'll admit, Vercel is much faster at.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmbgATze8UU

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