flyctl VS vercel

For frontend deployment, I used Netlify (for the generous free package) and the recommended fly.io for server + database (also cheap package).

Create an account on Fly.io.

You can learn more about fly.io and tigris, we will need to create an account on both platforms for this project regardless. Anyway with the theory out of the way let's get started in the next section as we create our accounts and start building the app.

Fly.io is a platform that helps you run your apps and databases closer to your users all around the world. It takes your app code, packages it up neatly, and puts it on virtual machines that can be quickly started or stopped. This makes your app faster for users and more reliable. Fly.io is easy to use, works well for small projects or personal apps. It's a great way to make sure your app runs smoothly for people no matter where they are.

In this post, we'll start from scratch, running FerretDB locally via Docker, trying out the connection with mongosh and the MongoDB Node.js client, and finally deploy FerretDB to Fly.io for a production ready set up.

2- fly.io

Fly is a cloud platform that focuses on global edge computing. Fly specializes in high-performance hosting and provides a global network of edge locations. Fly is known for its scalability and performance optimizations.

But videototextai.com is built using NextJS + Firebase auth + Firestore and a backend deployed at fly.io . Fly makes it really easy to deploy docker containers and that is IMO the fastest way to develop, you can setup a local setup

Alternatives explored: * northflank: While running the wrk test, requests were taking 3-7 seconds. Couldn't repeat Heroku's phenomenon of "400ms-800ms" during such a load test. * fly.io: Reliability: It’s Not Great * render.com: I remember the time when indiehackers.com was down because of an outage on Render, not sure if it's worth trusting.

For personal/portfolio projects fly.io and render.com both have free tiers that support the major backend frameworks and Postgres at the very least (although I think with Render at least the DB expires and has to be reloaded after a certain amount of time, have not personally tried it).

Easily deploy your Next.js app with Vercel by clicking the button below:

Easily deploy your Next.js app with Vercel by clicking the button below:

Now go to https://vercel.com, sign up for an account, and click "New Project". Connect your GitHub account and give Vercel permission to access your repositories.

Next.js has become a standard choice for developing React applications, offering various deployment options across different platforms. While Vercel is a popular choice for building and deployment, specific project requirements may require deployment to GitLab. In this guide, I'll illustrate the process of deploying a Next.js application to GitLab Pages.

I hosted my portfolio in Vercel. The main reason why I chose it is the hosting has great support for NextJS and IMPORTANT THING, it is total FREE 🤑 (with my usage). And I have use GitHub Action for deploy it automatically when I make or merge change into main branch.

To do this just head over to Vercel and log in if you're not already logged in. If this is your first project, you'll be seeing something like this.

function getContentSecurityPolicyHeaderValue( nonce: string, reportUri: string, ): string { // Default CSP for Next.js const contentSecurityPolicyDirective = { 'base-uri': [`'self'`], 'default-src': [`'none'`], 'frame-ancestors': [`'none'`], 'font-src': [`'self'`], 'form-action': [`'self'`], 'frame-src': [`'self'`], 'connect-src': [`'self'`], 'img-src': [`'self'`], 'manifest-src': [`'self'`], 'object-src': [`'none'`], 'report-uri': [reportUri], // for old browsers like Firefox 'report-to': ['csp'], // for modern browsers like Chrome 'script-src': [ `'nonce-${nonce}'`, `'strict-dynamic'`, // force hashes and nonces over domain host lists ], 'style-src': [`'self'`], } if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') { // Webpack use eval() in development mode for automatic JS reloading contentSecurityPolicyDirective['script-src'].push(`'unsafe-eval'`) } if (process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_ENV === 'preview') { contentSecurityPolicyDirective['connect-src'].push('https://vercel.live') contentSecurityPolicyDirective['connect-src'].push('wss://*.pusher.com') contentSecurityPolicyDirective['img-src'].push('https://vercel.com') contentSecurityPolicyDirective['font-src'].push('https://vercel.live') contentSecurityPolicyDirective['frame-src'].push('https://vercel.live') contentSecurityPolicyDirective['style-src'].push('https://vercel.live') } return Object.entries(contentSecurityPolicyDirective) .map(([key, value]) => `${key} ${value.join(' ')}`) .join('; ') }

This is a demo project to demonstrate how a Web2 frontend hosted on VERCEL can access a Motoko backend canister on the Internet Computer using Server Side Rendering (SSR).

Vercel is an open-source platform for hosting and deploying web applications and websites.

Vercel: Deploy websites and applications with automatic deployments.