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vends commented on Vercel: Improved Infrastructure Pricing   vercel.com/blog/improved-... · Posted by u/sarreph
thepaulmcbride · a year ago
Just got the email from them explaining the changes. It goes like this.

Vercel: We’re changing our pricing. Our community has told us we’re expensive. Also Vercel: Your bill is going up.

vends · a year ago
Mine is set to triple.

They’re giving us a 3 month grace period, but unfortunately don’t offer a breakdown of what is causing the increase.

vends commented on Ask HN: Can Vercel launch open-source versions of applications hosted on Vercel?    · Posted by u/shobhit-singhal
FBISurveillance · 2 years ago
Hey, thanks for jumping in. I personally don't see anything wrong with cloning and open sourcing projects for educational purposes.

However, one thing that is concerning for me is this:

> The employee used his access at Vercel to find his personal email, location, and the list of his projects.

(from https://twitter.com/nico_jeannen/status/1713139186474406206)

I'm unsure if this tweet is 100% truth, and I certainly don't believe it's "normal" as the tweet implies at the end - but it would be nice to get some sort of feedback on this, ideally. (e.g. "the employee was let go" + "we've reiterated internally that this is absolutely not something anyone at Vercel should do").

Last piece of thought - maybe the ToS need some clarifications to see if you could make it less permissive w.r.t. data and content? I understand you need to distribute it etc but would it be an option to e.g. rephrase "you hereby grant right to distribute data and content [...] only to provide you the customer with Service".

Note that I'm typing all this in good faith and I appreciate the work you folks do at Vercel.

vends · 2 years ago
Sounds like the employee was let go: https://twitter.com/buildwithjustin/status/17133449928724809...

Also a fan of Vercel and I'm very appreciative of the work they contribute to the React/JS ecosystem. Errors in human judgement happen and while they may have taken the appropriate action against the employee, I don't feel like they've reassured me enough that there are processes in place to prevent this happening in the future.

vends commented on Microsoft's project Silica: Is glass the future of long term storage?   unlocked.microsoft.com/se... · Posted by u/joak
ChrisArchitect · 2 years ago
Is this new? There's no dates on anything :/ Or is it from like 2019 when there was a lot of news coverage of the project
vends · 2 years ago
Seems like it's new. The video on the page is from two weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rfEYd4NGQg

vends commented on Vercel Is Ridiculously Expensive   docs.google.com/document/... · Posted by u/plussmart2018
plussmart2018 · 2 years ago
We just finished our website migration from Vercel to GCP to save $50 monthly. If you can, migrate it out ASAP to other cloud platform, like AWS and GCP.

Vercel is expensive and has many hidden fees, like $10 per month for monitoring (this should be free), web analytics Plus (google analytics for free) and source images 5$ per 1000 (what is this?).

Have no idea why Vercel is desperate to charge user money.

vends · 2 years ago
How do you handle global infrastructure on AWS/GCP?

The performance is great in the US for my Next.js app on GCP/AWS as that's where I deploy to, but elsewhere the TTFB is poor. Deploying to multiple regions would probably end up costing more than Vercel for us.

u/vends

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