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margaritahumanitarian / helpafamily

Impactful ways to help families in need through donated meals, hygiene kits, and more. By Margarita Humanitarian Foundation.
https://helpafamily.margaritahumanitarian.org/
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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Try deploying this to Vercel, compare it to Netlify, ask for sponsorship if we like it #9

Closed audreyfeldroy closed 3 years ago

audreyfeldroy commented 3 years ago

While we really love Netlify, this is a Next.js project and Vercel could potentially be a better fit for it.

This open-source project and forthcoming ones from Margarita Humanitarian Foundation could potentially grow as big as our other past projects (e.g. Cookiecutter has 15k+ GitHub stars) with many volunteers.

Vercel's $20 per-member pricing is great for for-profits but would cause us a lot of strain, as a charity relying primarily on volunteers and on a tiny handful of donations.

audreyfeldroy commented 3 years ago

I'm actually having second thoughts about moving from Netlify to Vercel. I really like Netlify's deploy previews and checks. I'll leave this open for further consideration, though, since I'm less familiar with Vercel and it may provide similar functionality.

audreyfeldroy commented 3 years ago

After some difficulty with configuring per-environment variables in Netlify compared with our experience of it in Vercel, we've decided to try moving this to Vercel. Still setting it up...so far so good 🙂

audreyfeldroy commented 3 years ago

Now both Vercel and Netlify are set up for deploy previews. Let's see how they both feel before deciding to remove either one.

RedFox0x20 commented 3 years ago

Loading times are very different for me across the two hosts:

Not a great deal difference, however you see the images pop in much later on the Netlify host.

This difference seems to come from Netlify adding their "Netlify Drawer" to the preview page. On the live version of the site I would assume that wouldn't be there.