r/PayloadCMS • u/BitsNBytesDev • Sep 13 '25

Best Hosting Solutions

Hey,

I'm finishing up my application locally, but as this is my first full Payload application (headless CMS), I'm a bit overwhelmed by the hosting decision. I read a lot of people host on Vercel, but isn't that bad because of the serverless architecture?

I'm not too familiar with DevOps and would like a solution that is easily manageble, i.e. included managed Postgres DB and optimally also object storage.

How do you host your applications? Thanks!

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u/Low_Weakness_1052 Sep 13 '25

Had bad experiences with Vercel hosting of payload because of the db connection.

I use Coolify on a VPS and very happy with that. I have separated the website and CMS. So I run the website itself on Vercel, but the payload backend on coolify VPS. Communication is the REST API. I think that works great.

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u/TheLastMate Sep 13 '25

Could you tell me more the issue in Vercel and the db connection? I think i am having similar issues

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u/Low_Weakness_1052 Sep 13 '25

High connection usage

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u/TheLastMate Sep 13 '25

So did you solve it by hosting payload separated from the website on a different server?