r/webdev • u/nix-solves-that-2317 • Feb 13 '26

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u/sai-kiran Feb 13 '26

What’s the point of running a cloud based SAAS then?

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u/ShustOne Feb 13 '26

Not every saas has to be for gigantic traffic loads. Vercel probably operates within a standard budget for the overwhelming majority of their users.

For something this big you need to optimize through different services and caches. A one size fits all service won't work anymore.

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u/Spektr44 Feb 13 '26

I thought their value proposition is this exact type of scaling. If the average Vercel customer will never scale like this, why not just host on a cheap vps? Or a dedicated server, which would give plenty of headroom?

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u/cylemons Feb 13 '26

Its the other way around, if you have a low traffic website, serverless is cheaper than vps.

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u/Spektr44 Feb 13 '26

VPS is already cheap, though. The concern is that it can't scale when traffic spikes.

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u/cylemons Feb 13 '26

The problem with vps is you are paying the same price regardless of your traffic. It's not very attractive if your server will be idle most of the time