Paul, thanks for this hilarious and informative comparison!
I was wondering if you had also considered deploying this site as a static site on something like Firebase Hosting/Vercel/Netlify/Github Pages, etc. (straight to a CDN, instead of worrying about hosting)? Next.js takes cares of a lot of pain points (data fetching, caching etc.). We're considering something like that for our own site.
You do lose the benefit of having a proper node.js backend, but so far our needs can be met by Next.js mixed with maybe some serverless functions.
Overall, that could maybe bring costs down even further than an auto-scaling container, as long as you don't need access to a real server...?
Paul, thanks for this hilarious and informative comparison!
I was wondering if you had also considered deploying this site as a static site on something like Firebase Hosting/Vercel/Netlify/Github Pages, etc. (straight to a CDN, instead of worrying about hosting)? Next.js takes cares of a lot of pain points (data fetching, caching etc.). We're considering something like that for our own site.
You do lose the benefit of having a proper node.js backend, but so far our needs can be met by Next.js mixed with maybe some serverless functions.
Overall, that could maybe bring costs down even further than an auto-scaling container, as long as you don't need access to a real server...?
Just food for thought.
NextJs is great but locks you in to using old hat React, not everybody's cup of tea, mind you.