Short-term gain or short-sightedness?
Just an hour ago I have been "booted" from Netlify — a serverless hosting provider I have been using for the past 10 years to host my tiny web projects and experiments.
The reason? I have had negligence of switching from their legacy free plan to a shiny new AI-enabled, credit-driven "free" plan. I didn't spend too much time reading the fine print, since I figured I knew Netlify too well.
I took this new plan as an opportunity — when I got an issue yesterday, I tried debugging it with their "Claude Agent". Which promptly ate all of the 299 quota of my allotted 300 monthly credits.
It was slow and useless, and in the meantime my actual Claude Pro subscription fixed that issue anyway.
So apparently besides these new AI-enabled features, they also charge credits for deployments and my next deployment spent the last ounce of the "credit".
In the end all of my 5 projects has been "paused" without prior warning and without any notice, really. I didn't get an email, nor the prompt notification in the dashboard. I got it in several minutes, after I have had clicked through all of the tabs in the dashboard.
And thus, this is a story of how I got back to Vercel. Which, at least for now, provide somewhat reasonable free plan.
And if Vercel breaks I guess I will just deploy VPS with Coolify for $3/mo.
Vercel dashboard is pretty neat looking, though:
P.S. And yeah, now I have to bother guys at js.org to migrate my docs from Netlify...