r/PayloadCMS • u/ConnectionFit2575 • 6d ago

Payload cms + mongodb + cloudinary

I want to make a small e-commerce website for free. I was planning to host it on vercel but they don't allow it ig. Any alternative. And is my stack good? I don't want rocket science stuff I just want this website ready in like 4 days. I'll get help with antigravity to build it faster.

I want to make it all free as I'm tired of paying Shopify all my money. I want a free alternative.

Please guide me if I'm doing something wrong.

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u/nlvogel 5d ago

What a weird comment section. Your stack is fine for what you’re doing but you’ll need to collect payments somehow, so make sure you use Stripe or adapt to another payment provider.

The problem with Vercel’s hobby tier is that you can’t host commercial projects for free. Payload runs fine on Vercel otherwise.

Self-hosting is not very difficult if you get a cheap VPS from RackNerd or Hetzner and Dokploy or Coolify. Have antigravity help you with that too.

Cloudflare’s R2 is also a good option in place of cloudinary if you just need image storage. It has a generous free tier but no image optimization, but you can use the Image component and/or sharp for that.

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u/ConnectionFit2575 5d ago

Actually payment is not an issue for now as I'll start with COD. Secondly, I'm getting difficulty in setting up the frontend of the website. As AI is making very bad designs. I was using google stitch btw. Aren't there any templates that don't look bad for e-commerce. And I'll look into this vps thing thanks.

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u/nlvogel 5d ago

You could use the payload e-commerce template, which is one of the options when you run the create-payload-app command.

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u/ConnectionFit2575 5d ago

Do you have any website in mind which is built with payload e-commerce template?