[authorfly]

Things like web scrapers and lots of nodejs bits get caught out by the Vercel limits (like mb of RAM) don't they though? Or is that a thing of the past now?

I say this because, I develop moderately complex applications. We just always end up with some level of server side functionality, and even though Next.js is beautiful, the prevalence of these issues lead up to us self hosting. We do incur occasional issues scaling up, but so far, and despite intense applications with 5 figures of users, had had no issues with single/dual instance set ups. Any running a dockerized next.js application with auto restart is very easy for us.

I emphasize a lot with you - I too hate dev ops. But I suppose that comes from once spending 10 days migrating a service from VPS to AWS (back in the 10s mind - it would be easier now due to the standardization of environments)

But as to next.js features which can be caught out by the vercel resource limits - Do you not encounter those limitations, or do you work around them?