VPS vs Vercel - Ashley Rudland's VPS Playground

Source code: GitHub

Do we need Vercel? (it seems not) Can we just run our NextJS apps on a VM? Maybe all our apps on one machine?

I love NextJS, but I don't like Vercels pricing. It seems nuts to me and it seems many other people do too. So I spent a few hours playing with this and Digital Ocean Hetzner Cloud (€3.30/mo 🤣) to see what was possible.