[teddyh]

Some people avoid large providers, since large providers have approximately no incentive whatsoever to keep you, specifically, as a customer. I.e. large providers will happily raise their prices, alter the deal, throw you under the bus, disable your account, delete all you data and then refuse to talk to you. They can do this because, when they look at the big picture, you don’t matter to them. And since doing this saves them some money, they all do it.

[kunley]

Right. Plus, large providers usually don't offer support for small-sized instances/containers/whatever, so even if you optimized your deployment to use less resources, you need to buy a bigger thing.

But to the main point: using an extra layer which is on the top of said large provider, like here Vercel over AWS, is not a solution, as this middle man also can be marginalized by the big bully at some moment.

This is why I prefer small providers, like Vultr. (Not affiliated with them in any way; just a happy customer).

[MuteXR]

And a small service can go under anytime, without any real warning.

Most big providers end up being cheaper for you as well. Vercel is insanely expensive.

[teddyh]

> And a small service can go under anytime, without any real warning.

Both large and small providers could make the ground from under your feet disappear, in different ways. But only the small provider has a real incentive to actually keep you, as just one customer. It’s only when a small provider goes out of business completely that you have any risk. And that’s unlikely to happen, unless they’re delusional or funded by squirrel-minded VCs – which are things you can determine beforehand.