[Unbeliever69]

Alternative PAAS without the gotchas? Would appreciate proven alternatives. Thanks.

[thisisauserid]

Coolify, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages (and Workers), Fly.io, Render, Railway...

Even GCP Firebase and AWS Amplify almost qualify as PaaS.

[pjmlp]

The only one that I would point out as better is Render, as it allows for containers, all others are worse than Vercel, in tooling, and supported languages for serverless on the backend.

[dmackerman]

Cloudflare Workers are awesome. You can do a lot on the $5 tier. Their CLI tool `wrangler` is quite excellent.

Code generation tools know their APIs and they have excellent docs, so getting up and running isn't very difficult.

[jyscao]

PSA: Railway just had this recent f*ck up - https://x.com/lifeof_jer/status/2048103471019434248

[razakel]

It's not Railway's fault that he didn't read the docs and thought it'd be a good idea to play Russian roulette.

[solarkraft]

lifeof_jer had this fuck-up, not Railway.

[7thpower]

None of which are nearly as beginner friendly as vercel.

[thisisauserid]

And with Vercel you get to pay to stay a beginner forever.

[7thpower]

It’s a tradeoff.

[preommr]

I've had a great experience with cloudflare pages. It doesn't get much easier than using their cli (wrangler) to sync up a local folder. I suppose the exception is SSR, but then again I absolutely despise SSR so I don't think it counts.

[pjmlp]

Do they finally support native compiled languages like Vercel?

Webassembly doesn't count.

[7thpower]

I hated pages until I started using the cli. I have started using it more for prototypes, etc. can’t beat it for the price.

[ksajadi]

I'm going to plug Cloud 66 here for you as well. You get a happy middle between a fully managed PaaS and running your own servers.