The Vercel Killer: Setup Coolify v4 on Bare Metal

Escape the “Vercel Tax”: Build Your Own Private PaaS

Vercel offers an incredible developer experience, but at scale, that convenience comes with a massive “PaaS Tax.” With bandwidth often priced at a 4000% markup over raw infrastructure ($40/100GB overage costs), growing startups face terrifying egress bills.

What if you could get that same Vercel-like Developer Experience (DX) with predictable, flat-rate pricing?

Enter Coolify v4 on ServerMO Bare Metal Dedicated Hardware. 🚀

By building your own Private PaaS, you can cut your hosting costs by an estimated 90%. Here is why deploying on ServerMO Bare Metal changes the game:

• Zero Egress Fees: We provide Unmetered 10Gbps ports. You pay a flat fee, so you can use the full capacity of your port without worrying about variable data usage.
• Massive Build Power: Stop waiting in shared PaaS build queues. With 64GB to 512GB of dedicated RAM, you perform Next.js builds directly in memory, bypassing disk-IO bottlenecks.
• Total Data Sovereignty: Automate S3-compatible backups, secure your dashboard via SSH tunnels, and easily issue Wildcard SSLs via DNS-01 challenges.
• Bulletproof Uptime: Coolify deploys your apps as independent Docker containers. Even if the Coolify dashboard crashes or updates, your apps stay online.

Don’t let managed platforms limit your growth with abstraction taxes. Deploy on a machine where you own the kernel and the throughput. 💻

👉 Read the full step-by-step setup guide on the ServerMO Blog here

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Vibe Coding - VIN Recall project in couple hours

I built this quick demo prototype (https://newcopilotapp.vercel.app/) for a VIN based Recall lookup tool for LucidMotors using the following tools:-

• VS Code
• Github CoPilot
• Figma Designs
• A lightweight PRD

STEPS:

> Installed VSCode and the GitHub CoPilot extension

> Selected a next.js application

> Included PRD & Figma designs and guided the design via prompts

> Tested demo on local machine

> Connected to Vercel and deployed to Vercel instance’

The URL provided above should work for many days but in case it fails here’s a quick video.

Modern Web Apps Are No Longer Built the Old Way, Here’s What’s Changing

A few years ago, building a web application meant choosing a frontend framework, setting up servers, managing deployments, and constantly fixing performance issues.

Today, the conversation looks completely different.

The modern web stack is evolving around one core idea:
Speed + Scalability + Developer Experience

And at the center of this shift sits React.js, powered by platforms and tools that redefine how products are built and shipped.

The New React Ecosystem (What Forward-Thinking Teams Are Using)

React.js is no longer just a UI library.
It has become the foundation of a complete modern development architecture.

Here’s what the latest stack looks like:

React + Server Components
Faster rendering, improved SEO, and reduced client-side load — delivering near-instant user experiences.

Vercel Deployment Model
Instant previews, edge delivery, and seamless CI/CD pipelines that allow teams to ship updates multiple times a day without friction.

Node.js Backend Evolution
Lightweight APIs, real-time systems, and scalable microservices powering modern SaaS platforms.

Edge Functions & Serverless Architecture
Logic runs closer to users, dramatically improving performance across global audiences.

API-First & Headless Systems
Frontend and backend evolve independently, enabling faster product iteration.

Why This Stack Is Winning Right Now
Modern businesses are optimizing for:

• Performance that feels instant
• SEO-friendly web applications
• Faster experimentation and releases
• Scalable infrastructure without heavy DevOps overhead
• Seamless developer collaboration

React combined with Vercel and Node is enabling teams to move from months of development cycles to continuous delivery.

Where We See This Stack Growing Fast

• SaaS platforms
• AI-powered dashboards
• Startup MVPs and scale-ups
• High-performance eCommerce experiences
• Real-time collaboration tools
• Modern enterprise portals

The focus is shifting from “building websites” to building living products that continuously evolve.

The real trend is not just React itself
it is the ecosystem around it that makes development faster, smarter, and globally scalable.

If you are exploring modern web architecture or planning your next-generation web platform, this space is evolving faster than ever.

Learn more about modern web development with React:
https://prishusoft.com/reactjs-development

After a writing marathon of the last four days, and me having most of this week off, I must attempt a task that’s really daunting and unpleasant: upgrade Node.js in some of my applications (personal projects, not work-related) that run on Vercel. They are 4-5 years old, and I have only upgraded Node.js in them maybe once or twice. Vercel has long stopped supporting the version of Node that they run on currently.

The problem is that to make sure my applications run on the newest version of Node means upgrading Node on my laptop and testing them out locally. This could present all sorts of problems because my various Node modules - both for backend (Express.js) and for the frontend (React.js) are out of date too, and might have become incompatible with the newest Node. So then I will have to upgrade them too. And that might require rewriting my code. Because fixing one incompatibility causes a whole row of domino-like incompatibilities to collapse.

This is the kind of unpredictable, open-ended task that could consume the rest of my three remaining vacation days and erase my writing time.

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Vercel debuts an AI mannequin optimized for net improvement

The workforce behind Vercel’s V0, an AI-powered platform for net creation, has developed an AI mannequin it claims excels at sure web site improvement duties.
Out there by means of an API, the mannequin, known as “v0-1.0-md,” will be prompted with textual content or photos, and was “optimized for front-end and full-stack net improvement,” the Vercel workforce says. Presently in beta, it requires…

Vercel debuts an AI mannequin optimized for net improvement

How to Add a Custom Domain on Vercel

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Deploying Your First React App to Production

Putting your first React application live might be intimidating, particularly if you’ve never done it before. That being said, any developer creating contemporary web apps has to have this ability. With thorough instructions and a ton of code samples, we’ll go over everything you should know in this tutorial to launch a React project. Additionally, we’ll guide you through several deployment techniques utilizing platforms like Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, and more…

Learn more here:

https://www.nilebits.com/blog/2024/09/deploying-react-app-to-production/

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Experiment Go, going well

Day 197 - May 20th, 12.024

The experiment of using Vercel to deploy a Go is going well. I found a way to “convert” the Go project into something that Vercel’s uses, using Go itself to create the CLI/Command to make said conversion/build. It’s a new experience doing a project in this language, since it has a different structure from any other that I tried, and it’s kinda powerful, not gonna lie. You can have CLIs, servers, internal tools, all in one project, it is almost like creating your own tiny-framework for that project.

If you are interested in following the experiment and reading the code, here it is the GitHub draft pull request: https://github.com/dot013/.www-new/pull/1. Remember that it is an experiment, and I’m not caring about code quality and scalability for now, I just want to know if it works. I can always refactor later.

Today’s artists & creative things
Music: ABRASIVE - by ratatat

© 2024 Gustavo “Guz” L. de Mello. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Empowering Your Full-Stack App with Free Hosting Solutions

In the rapidly changing world of technology, creating a robust and effective full-stack application is just half the fight. Finding the ideal hosting option that not only meets the requirements of your app but also suits your budget is the other essential component. Thankfully, there are many of cost-effective free hosting options that can power your full-stack application. We will examine the best practices and tools in this extensive guide to help you maximize the potential of your application while minimizing expenses…

Learn more here:

https://www.nilebits.com/blog/2024/01/full-stack-app-free-hosting/

Vercel can help to migrate a large frontend application from one framework to another one by providing several tools and services to simplify the process. First, Vercel provides an easy-to-use, automated migration tool that detects current application code and framework and then automatically applies the necessary code changes to migrate them to the target framework. Second, Vercel provides an analysis tool that helps identify potential issues with the migration process. This tool can detect incorrect code changes, performance issues, and other problems that might arise during the migration. Finally, Vercel provides a range of services to optimize the performance of the migrated application. This includes features such as automated code splitting, server-side rendering, and more.