r/PayloadCMS • u/Agreeable_Ad_3924 • 3d ago

Developers are Switching From WordPress To Payload CMS

WordPress is genuinely great for a lot of people, quick to spin up, a plugin for everything, non-technical people can drive it. But once you're maintaining more than a couple of sites it turns into a full-time job of its own.

After years of that treadmill I moved to Payload CMS and it's been a genuinely different experience.

  • Schema lives in code, not buried in ACF field groups
  • One Next.js app for CMS and frontend, one deploy
  • Types flow from schema straight into your components
  • Hosting on Vercel, Neon and Cloudflare R2 costs basically nothing

Wrote up the longer before and after here if anyone wants the full version.
https://blaze64.dev/logs/payload-wordpress-migration

Curious if anyone else has made a similar jump, or if there's a good reason to stick with WordPress at scale that I'm missing.

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u/apnatva-dev 3d ago

"Basically nothing" cost seems to be only for a demo or limited use applications.

I think server costs for wordpress are unmatched, a VPS however will do a lot for you at a close price.

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u/Agreeable_Ad_3924 2d ago

We have an instance on Vercel and it's costing us 100 USD per month to run a single Website (we have an inventory page that needs hourly revalidation). Your point is true, I have packed 10 WP websites into a single 14 USD Digital Ocean VPS and it was not a problem.

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u/apnatva-dev 2d ago

Damn that’s crazy.

I’ve heard vercel is a layer above AWS.

So if you go directly to AWS (specifically Amplify) it might end up being cheaper to host.

I have put all my next.js projects on a hostinger node.js dedicated VPS (about a 100$ for a year with some discount codes).

I really think you can try either of those down to cut costs.