Idea about Vercel prices
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Aidi posted this in #help-forum
AidiOP
Hi, I'm looking for moving my website to vercel. It's made in React and it has ~4000 unique visitors in a week. Any idea how much it will cost?
Answered by Jboncz
What I would do is start with a hobby plan and don’t direct traffic to it instead implement how you would in production and then navigate to the site 100 times on an incognito browser and see what the usage is and then times it by what you estimate traffic to be at.
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Lakeland Terrier
Highly variable depending on whats going on
Is it a hobby project? There’s no way to give you a good idea without knowing what the site is doing.
That’s like me saying I have 100 rocks how much will it cost you to move them? Without telling you that each rock weighs 10,000 pounds.
@Jboncz Is it a hobby project? There’s no way to give you a good idea without knowing what the site is doing.
AidiOP
It's a website for a pizzeria. But not for the ordering, just 2 pages, landing page and one with info for franchise
Hmmm is it fetching any data or mostly static?
AidiOP
Only static
Without having used verve for hosting anything outside of a hobby project I still could mostly confidently say you will never go over any of the data limits to a hobby project even… that being said I don’t think this meets the hobby criteria.
What I would do is start with a hobby plan and don’t direct traffic to it instead implement how you would in production and then navigate to the site 100 times on an incognito browser and see what the usage is and then times it by what you estimate traffic to be at.
Answer
Disclaimer I haven’t used verve as I self host all of my stuff, but this is a really really simple site
But if it’s static… why host on vercel? Just curious they do have nice workflows and stuff built in but if the site rarely changes benefit might not be there.
AidiOP
Cause i've used Vercel for other personal websites and it's kinda easy to use. Any suggestion?
I can’t give any good suggestions I work in a large org so self hosted on our own hardware and network. I would set it up and then try to emulate some traffic and see where you land.
I have an easy button when it comes to infrastructure. lol
AidiOP
Me too that's why i'm using Verel, it's a pain in the ass trying to self host something :))
Yeah I would run with a hobby plan for a minute and see what it looks like.
Whatever you do please please please setup spending limits if you go past the hobby plan.
AidiOP
Any idea where i can see the usage? I can't found it
Should just be on the dashboard. I’m on my phone on a boat right now so limited ability to look
Lakeland Terrier
On the dashboard go to usage.
AidiOP
Oh yea, found, thanks.
I thought i had to be in the project dashboard.
Thanks for yout help guys
Lakeland Terrier
For sure, I'd like to think you wouldnt have much issue. Please report back when you see whats going on
Make sure to mark an answer even you have no issues so the thread closes. Good luck! I’ll look for an update later.
Lakeland Terrier
For a database heavy application you would blow thru your free/pro plan pretty quickly, but will be interesting to see how far you stretch it
Yeah he said it’s completely static and no data fetching so should be a super super small footprint
@Jboncz Yeah he said it’s completely static and no data fetching so should be a super super small footprint
If it's static, I'd say just use static export a d cloudflare pages and no way of going over bandwidth on unlimited...
Also because I'm not 100% sure on what defines commercial usage if it is direct or indirect but for landing of business
@riský Also because I'm not 100% sure on what defines commercial usage if it is direct or indirect but for landing of business
Yeah that’s the part I was not sure about but I didn’t want to recommend something to bypass the tos for the free plan.
American Chinchilla
Im curious to know this website
If possible and comfortable sharing
Just be careful about sharing, I know it seems harmless but once it’s shared it shared no going back. While we hope everyone on the internet had good intentions, realistically gotta be careful you don’t dox yourself
American Chinchilla
@Jboncz yeah thats why i asked if he is comfortable sharing but no pressure, its because im trying to actually learn seo and was wondering how he was able to get organic traffic by a lot.
I was planning on visit his site to explore the keywords and compare an seo checklist with his site and one that i made.
Its okay though, better safe than sorry.
Well because it’s a local pizza parlor it likely is getting no traffic because of real world physical location more than seo and or key words