A developer running a product with over 350,000 monthly visitors on Vercel is considering migrating to a self-hosted or alternative platform to manage future costs, despite their current...

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    "summary": "A developer running a product with over 350,000 monthly visitors on Vercel is considering migrating to a self-hosted or alternative platform to manage future costs, despite their current infrastructure spend being only $60-70 per month.",
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        "author": "Environmental_Bus507",
        "excerpt": "350K visitors, 12K regustered users and only 60 dollars of spend. You need to write an architecture diagram ASAP for us. That's amazing.",
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        "author": "Heighte",
        "excerpt": "xd i don't know how you manage to have such low costs, 60$/m for 350k+/m visitors is absolutely insane",
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        "excerpt": "What specific problems are you trying to solve?\n\n I can tell you that you aren’t going to do better than $70/mo in value by doing it another way. You have basically no overhead and a very low price. If you expect tremendous growth and you’re concerned about performance or customization or something along those lines, it might make sense. But if you’re getting along well with Vercel and it’s still",
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        "excerpt": "You're worried about $70/mo? Keep doing what you're doing. Even 30 minutes of extra time spent per month on this and there's no ROI. I spent $70 on Claude tokens just today LMAO.",
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        "author": "YoghiThorn",
        "excerpt": "I'll be blunt. It's stupid for you to even consider this question right now compared to the cost of human time",
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        "excerpt": "How to brag without actually bragging",
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        "excerpt": "Honestly jealous. The only one who can make the setup more complicated is you.\n\n Be very deliberate. If your second product is anything like the first, might as well keep it separate.",
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        "author": "yknx4",
        "excerpt": "Add 3 or 4 extra zeros to your cost. Then you can start considering other options\n\n You are doing amazing.",
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      "[post] We’ve been running our product on Next.js + Vercel and Supabase. It’s been working well.",
      "[post] Our current infrastructure cost is around $60–70/mo.",
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