Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company
by andrewaylett on Friday December 22, 2023 @01:03PM
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I'm happy with Vercel's restrictions, especially considering I'm only using their very generous free tier.
The biggest practical reason I can think of is directly relevant to their free tier: they cache heavily, that's not quite the whole point of the platform but it's a large part of its appeal to me. They're obviously not going to be able to cache everything even with a limit as low as 14kB, but they're happy-pathing projects that are at least vaguely amenable to caching.
In the meantime, I get to throw code at them and not care about where or how they execute it, and I really like that.
The biggest practical reason I can think of is directly relevant to their free tier: they cache heavily, that's not quite the whole point of the platform but it's a large part of its appeal to me. They're obviously not going to be able to cache everything even with a limit as low as 14kB, but they're happy-pathing projects that are at least vaguely amenable to caching.
In the meantime, I get to throw code at them and not care about where or how they execute it, and I really like that.