[jitl]

I can do all of those sysadmin tasks (learned FreeDBD sysadmin at UC Berkeley’s student ISP) but the experience offered by Vercel (free for hobby user!) is so much better than managing my own VPS, why would I consider it? Even for a team of 10 @ $20/mo, Vercel seems so worth it for preview deploys per branch, production environment management, CDN, etc. “light system management” doesn’t cover any of those tasks, and the whole team is gonna move waaay faster compared to fiddling with VPS provisioning.

> Postgres, Redis

Vercel doesn’t do either of these, but you can pick Postgres up from Superbase (for free) in a few clicks. But I might consider Planetscale for the production DB fork & schema management stuff even though it’s MySQL instead of Postgres.