Vercel

Vercel is a hosting platform for websites. It is especially popular for sites built with Next.js, because Vercel is built by the same company that created Next.js.

What makes Vercel popular is how easy it is to use. You connect your code repository, and every time you push an update, Vercel automatically builds and deploys your site. No server configuration needed.

I used Vercel for years. The developer experience is excellent. But I ran into a problem when I tried to prove that my site runs on green energy — Vercel could not give me the transparency I needed. That is why I started exploring alternatives like Cloudflare.

It is a great platform for convenience. But it showed me that convenience and transparency do not always go together.