[lfkdev]

You could do just the same with Ansible and Hetzner for 3$ a month

[WJW]

Ansible and Hetzner may cost 3$ a month, but it also costs several hours of dev time to set up and probably a few hours per year to keep up with certificate renewal, domain name renewal, maybe doing some package upgrades in response to newly discovered CVEs (that you ARE checking regularly, right? RIGHT?), etc.

If your time is free, great. If you REALLY like ansible and want to do it at a discounted rate, also fine. But for most people and companies, dev time comes at a rate of ~50$ per hour. For that amount of hours you don't even get scalability, documentation, failover and a host of other things that Vercel provides.

[azemetre]

This seems like a good trade compared to wasting hundreds of hours on a failed migration because Vercel decided beta features are ready for production.

Not to mention you’re learning transferable skills and not a proprietary stack from a company that may not exist in ten years.

[wanderlust123]

That Ansible and Hetzner approach doesn’t sound unreasonable if that is all there is to it

[sgarland]

Everything you mentioned can and should be automated.

[nkrisc]

Does setting up and maintaining that cost more than $17/month in developer time?

[anonymoushn]

For the people who say you should do this, no, but it depends on your background.

[nikcub]

you value your time at $0?