We received an email yesterday saying the "100% discount is expiring on June 14".
We're using them for deploy previews. Does anyone have recommendations on alternatives?
In case it’s helpful to anyone who has to jump off vercel:
I recently had to transition my company off of vercel for reasons unrelated to this (wanted to use cloud infra primitives that vercel does not provide, and wanted to leverage the large amount of AWS credits my company received) and found sst.dev [0] to be easy to migrate to and a joy to use in general. It leverages open-next to deploy next.js projects on AWS in a serverless way.
I’ve been enjoying using it so much that for my next project I think I’ll skip vercel altogether and use sst from the start.
[0] https://sst.dev/
Heads up that vercel updated the copy on the page that's linked to by this post. It's not a blog post, it's a guide page, so obviously we'd expect it to change, but it's probably useful to track it in case comments here are responding to an older version.
This is what it originally said: https://web.archive.org/web/20240614182520/https://vercel.co...
Here's what it says at the time I'm posting this: https://web.archive.org/web/20240614223830/https://vercel.co...
Seems like it's mainly an update to clarify things because of this thread. But honestly, they'd probably be better off just making a new post explaining what's going on. They might also want to clarify why some sponsorships seem to have coincidentally expired right around now (if that's what's happening), and what's up with this $300 credit thing.
Vercel sponsored my project (https://github.com/huhu/rust-search-extension) since 2020, and I also received their email yesterday. I sent a email try to ask the reason, and get no response yet.
Get a machine from hetzner and use coolify or something similar and own your work. Here’s a great video from just 3 days ago: https://youtu.be/ZZ1lnw8D3Qo?si=ggzm9Znhz9HLwaSa
I received the email for maglit.me yesterday. It's sad to see it ending as my project has proven itself to be useful to people and open source community.
I'm thinking of applying to Netlify's sponsorship program or just hosting the website using Coolify on VPS, it'll cost money which would mean I'd have to ask the users for donations to make the project sustainable.
At some point, the piper will come for companies that rely so heavily on open-source software they do not themselves financially support or contribute to.
How is the submitted article related to the headline? There's no claim of a "24hr notice" there, just that new sponsorships aren't being accepted.
Vercel did well to support to open source projects so far but I guess it's time for the work on their bottom line.
This is why I am vary of free credits.
I guess they’re facing severe financial strain
I have been sponsored by Vercel since early 2020. Vercel has primarily served as a CDN for my free and open-source font delivery system, using up to a couple hundred gigabytes of bandwidth per month. Luckily I've been using a custom domain for these deployments so migrating platforms should be easy!
Does anyone have any recommendations for a CDN service that may be interested in sponsoring this type of project? I suppose it's possible to just use Cloudflare's free tier, but I'd like to avoid contributing to internet monopolies as much as possible.
With the amount of money vercel makes with react, nobody should see those ‘sponsorships’ as anything other than predatory market tactic
I am grateful that they had an open source sponsorship program until now.
If you're looking to host documentation, Read the Docs has been hosting docs for open source projects for 15 years now (I'm one of the co-founders).
We put a small, ethical ad on your docs pages as tradeoff, and to make it sustainable, along with hosting credits from AWS (Thanks AWS!).
We're happy to help host docs if that's what you're looking for: https://about.readthedocs.com/pricing/#/community
I found somebody on twitter posting their email
https://x.com/ArnaudLigny/status/1801536871962489145
"Hey there,
Your team cecil is currently enrolled in the Vercel sponsorship program.
Your 100% off discount is expiring on June 14.
To give you time to handle this transition, we will automatically enroll your team into a $300/mo discount for the next 6 months, starting on June 14 and ending on December 14.
Thank you for partnering together with us.
Please reach out to sponsorships@vercel.com if you have any questions."