Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end

Re:Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end by jaywalk on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:55PM (#23044701)

How can $20/month flat pricing realistically work? What if I've got a content-heavy site that gets a lot of traffic? Will I get hit with a surprise bill, or will you eat the costs and just cut me off?

It's a great idea for a service, but the pricing just seems too simplistic.

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Re:Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end by m1guelpf on Friday May 01, 2020 @01:58PM (#23044733)

The hosting is managed by Vercel, who recently announced unlimited bandwidth on their free plan [1]

[1]: https://vercel.com/blog/simpler-pricing

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Re:Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end by nkozyra on Friday May 01, 2020 @02:37PM (#23045139)

Yikes.

So the bigger question then is what happens when they change this? Or go away. Also, have you seen what "Additionally, different hard limits apply for each plan." means on their pricing page[1]? Domain limits, maximum files, etc? What those might mean when you scale beyond expectation?

I don't mean to discourage. But big vendors pull the rug out from under people all the time, sometimes ruining a business because there's no viable alternative.

Make sure your eggs can be put in different baskets if need be.

[1] https://vercel.com/docs/v2/platform/limits

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Re:Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end by jaywalk on Friday May 01, 2020 @03:09PM (#23045464)

Yeah, that's almost worse. It means Sitesauce is relying on the generosity of their vendor for their business model to work.

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Re:Show HN: Generate a static website from any back end by quickthrower2 on Saturday May 02, 2020 @02:56PM (#23054016)

Well they could also connect to upload to s3, netlify, github pages, GitLab pages, to name the free or pretty cheap static hosts I can think of!

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