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If you're only paying $3-5 on Linode then your level of usage would probably be comfortably at $0 on Vercel.
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It could be $0 on Render too, but then there's going to be a 3 minute load time for a landing page to become visible, lol. So if you don't want your server to sleep, you're going to have to pay $20/month.

Does Vercel do the same?

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No, I run several small websites on Vercel for free for years, always served static pages very quickly
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Render offers free static sites that are served via a CDN and load instantly: https://render.com/docs/static-sites
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Makes sense considering the quality of Vercel's security response and customer communication.
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Looking at linode, those prices get you an instance with 1Gb of ram and a mediocre CPU. So you are running all of your applications on that?
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Personal projects/MVPs/small projects? Absolutely. For what I'm running, there's no reason to need anything beyond that.

The point is, I used to just throw everything up on a PaaS. Heroku/Render, etc. and pay way more than I needed to, even if I had 0 users, lol.

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For $3.5, Hetzner gives 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, and 10 TB of bandwidth.
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Pretty oversold iirc, but then again, that's the same for Linode
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how much work should the GP do to migrate if Linode is good enough, to potentially save up to $1.50/month (or spend 50 cents more)?
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exactly people paid the premium so somebody else's OAuth screwup wouldn't become their Sunday. and here we are.
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