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ericgio / weekday-golf

A codified history of our bi-weekly-ish games.
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Consider switching to Vercel for hosting #16

Open makinde opened 4 years ago

makinde commented 4 years ago

Right now we’re on the free tier of Heroku. This means we have a long startup time when the dyno goes to sleep. We also don’t get SSL.

The free tier on Vercel is well integrated with nextJS, so not only will the site always be on, they will store the pages in their CDN so its always fast. They also do free SSL carts. We can also have free review apps to run the app on different PR’s/branches. It’s also super easy to set up (I’d say much easier than Heroku. I set it up here: https://weekday-golf.vercel.app/rounds

The downside of Vercel is that only one person can manage the project for free. So we couldn’t all have access to the hosting like we do on Heroku. Since There’s rarely a need to tweak settings there, I think this is fine.

makinde commented 4 years ago

Right now the linked Vercel app is running on my account. We could continue with this (and have makinde/weekday-golf mirror ericgio/weekday-golf, or have gio sign up for an account and move his domain settings over to Vercel. If we want to make the switch, the latter is probably better.

ericgio commented 4 years ago

I don't feel strongly about this. It's not like the site gets lots of traffic, so site speed isn't a big issue. And SSL doesn't do anything for us as far as I can tell. I'd lean towards staying the course for now since that involves no effort and allows all of us to admin the site if needed. Something to think about longer-term, though.