Vercel + Fly.io Hybrid is Nept Cloud — Made by Gen Z

#webdev #programming #devops #performance

In Reddit, I’ve noticed many users complaining about Vercel’s billing, especially in the age of Vibe Coding, where AI works with Vibe. In this era, one person can code more than Google did in 2019. One person can push more updates in a day, which triggers more builds. Right now, each build minute costs $0.126. Imagine having an office with 30+ engineers, each of whom is a Vibe coder, pushing 10+ times a day, and each build taking 5 minutes. Then, one engineer is using $0.126 x 10 = $1.26 for build costs alone, and 30 frontend developers are using roughly $30.78 for build costs alone. In a month, it goes over $900. That’s only based on billing per minute, and there are more factors involved.

The platform I’ve built is primarily designed to solve issues like these, as well as performance and many others. Currently, all my infrastructures are based on Hetzner. To make my platform faster and more versatile, I plan to build edge infrastructure on GCP. To minimize cold starts, I plan to keep unused functions warm for a long time on Hetzner dedicated servers. To keep build costs almost free, I’ll also build build codes in Hetzner.