Ask HN: At what point does a solo dev migrate from Vercel/Next.js to a VPS?
I’m a solo founder running a two-sided marketplace app on the typical Vercel free tier + Supabase stack. It’s live with low-traffic right now. My concern is the 'cliff' I keep reading about—where Vercel becomes prohibitively expensive at scale. For those who migrated to a $5 Hetzner/DigitalOcean VPS:<p>What was the specific metric that forced the move? (Bandwidth, Function execution time, Cost?)<p>How much 'DevOps' time do you actually spend maintaining the VPS vs. building product?<p>I want to avoid premature optimization, but also don't want to be locked into a platform that will bankrupt the project if it takes off.
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I’m a solo founder running a two-sided marketplace app on the typical Vercel free tier + Supabase stack. It’s live with low-traffic right now. My concern is the 'cliff' I keep reading about—where Vercel becomes prohibitively expensive at scale. For those who migrated to a $5 Hetzner/DigitalOcean VPS:<p>What was the specific metric that forced the move? (Bandwidth, Function execution time, Cost?)<p>How much 'DevOps' time do you actually spend maintaining the VPS vs. building product?<p>I want to avoid premature optimization, but also don't want to be locked into a platform that will bankrupt the project if it takes off.