Web DevelopmentLeaving Vercel in 2026: The Real Self-Hosting Cost Math
Self-hosting Next.js on Hetzner with Coolify costs me $6-17/mo vs $40-150 on Vercel Pro. The real math, ops hours included, after the April 2026 breach.
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Web, React and Next.js, AI and RAG, and mobile. Written from production work, not tutorials about tutorials.
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Web DevelopmentSelf-hosting Next.js on Hetzner with Coolify costs me $6-17/mo vs $40-150 on Vercel Pro. The real math, ops hours included, after the April 2026 breach.
Web DevelopmentFor referential equality, no: React Compiler 1.0 handles it. I profiled a production dashboard to show what you still hand-memoize and what breaks.
Web DevelopmentNext.js 16 breaks middleware, revalidateTag, and caching with zero errors. Exact symptoms and fixes from migrating my production SaaS in 14 hours.
Web Developmenttsgo cut my monorepo's full type check from 71s to 9.2s, but plugins and compiler-API tools broke. Real before/after numbers and a switch-or-wait verdict.
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Web DevelopmentVibe code to validate, hire an engineer before money flows. A five-question framework with six-month cost math from a developer who rescues vibe-coded apps.
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