Switch to Vercel

[berekuk]

So, I was still annoyed by #44 and looked further, and it turns out that, uh, Netlify is just slow.

I spinned up a test instance on Vercel to compare, and the difference is huge.

Frontpage from my server in Europe:

# ab -n 30 'https://metaforecast.vercel.app/'
[...]

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    334
  66%    367
  75%    454
  80%    520
  90%    617
  95%    797
  98%    823
  99%    823
 100%    823 (longest request)

# ab -n 30 'https://metaforecast.org/'
[...]

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   1369
  66%   1396
  75%   1400
  80%   1429
  90%   1516
  95%   1521
  98%   1522
  99%   1522
 100%   1522 (longest request)

Frontpage from a temporary DO droplet in NYC1:

#  ab -n 30 'https://metaforecast.vercel.app/'
[...]

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    167
  66%    183
  75%    209
  80%    238
  90%    265
  95%    332
  98%   4294
  99%   4294
 100%   4294 (longest request)

(4294ms response is an outlier, I left this run as an example, but most of my runs with -n 30 give ~300 ms longest request time)

# ab -n 30 'https://metaforecast.org/'
[...]

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    683
  66%    700
  75%    720
  80%    733
  90%    815
  95%    897
  98%    993
  99%    993
 100%    993 (longest request)

Static pages, e.g. /about (from NYC1):

# ab -n 30 'https://metaforecast.vercel.app/about'
[...]

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     42
  66%     43
  75%     45
  80%     51
  90%     62
  95%     75
  98%    115
  99%    115
 100%    115 (longest request)

# ab -n 30 'https://metaforecast.org/about'
[...]

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    240
  66%    241
  75%    241
  80%    241
  90%    241
  95%    243
  98%    322
  99%    322
 100%    322 (longest request)

I don't know why Netlify is so slow, but I believe it's worth switching from.

Vercel is a bit costlier ($20 per team member vs $15/$19 on Netlify), but it has (mostly) better limits:

• 1 TB bandwidth per month instead of 400 GB on Netlify (though costlier additional bandwidth)
• serverless function timeout is 60 seconds on Pro plan
• 24000 minutes of build time (vs just 300 or 1000 on Netlify, and we've been hitting these limits on Netlify already)

There are some other limits, it's hard to compare all of them, see https://vercel.com/pricing vs https://www.netlify.com/pricing, but I don't see anything that would be a problem until metaforecast grows 10x or more.

[NunoSempere]

Talked with Ozzie, makes sense. I sent you an invite to Vercel

[berekuk]

Cool, I'll set it up in a day or two then.