This is an amazingly steep hill to climb for someone with absolutely no server admin experience, someone who used terminal all their life to just paste in curl commands from tutorials to pipe in bash install scripts and run npm. I think we come from a time where tech circle was smaller and people covered more fronts, nowadays with YouTube attention economy the circle is very large and fragmented with people becoming good at a subset of stuff and being totally oblivious to the other parts, like server admin.
Eh, not really. You can literally ask Claude how to do this and do it from zero to working within an hour. Sure, if you're building a massively scalable solution running in multi regions with serverless and non-serverless, k8s, and RabbitMQ, sure that's hard. But half the people in these comments are running basic front-end apps with zero need for anything more complex than a small server somewhere.
Also, the truth is, for most small businesses, they don't need half the shit they are paying Vercel for. Most small businesses barely have any traffic so they're paying Vercel for a worldwide CDN and caching etc when a single AWS-micro instance in a single region would be fine, and setting up a single instance in AWS doesn't need complex server admin experience.
