| TLDR: They could have done it cheaper, quicker and without adding DevOps to their workload with just migrating to Cloudflare. - Vercel: 150$/m. - Fly: 23$/m ( + managing servers and devops) - Cloudflare: 11 $/m. ---
(original comment) They could have gone from Vercel to Cloudflare to reduce their costs. But that would have been almost no work to create a blog post about :p https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/framework-guides/dep... Did some raw math. Cloudflare is 0,15$ per million requests and Vercel is 2$ per million requests. Their calculation for Vercel was: 77,600 * (2/1,000,000) = 0.15c per monitor monthly So that's ~0,011c per monitor monthly on Cloudflare. That would be a bill of 11€ per month ( vs 150 € per month on Vercel ). Probably less, since Cloudflare doesn't count idle CPU time, which is very relevant in this use-case ( outbound http calls) ... - https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-pricing-scale-to-zero/ Which is cheaper than their VPS of 23.34$ / month. And would have avoided managing servers + security to their workload... |