The easiest cloud for building and running all your apps
Free static site hosting with no limits on bandwidth is genuinely useful for marketing sites and documentation
Managed PostgreSQL databases with automatic backups are available without configuring anything yourself
Build caching is smart and incremental, making subsequent deploys noticeably faster than starting from scratch
Auto-deploy from GitHub and preview environments per branch work reliably without any YAML configuration
Free web services spin down after 15 minutes of inactivity and the cold start takes 30-60 seconds — awful first impression for demo apps
Database backups on the free tier are limited to manual snapshots — you need to pay $7/mo minimum for automated backups
Support response times are slow compared to competitors and the community forum isn't very active for finding workarounds
Pricing for production workloads can be higher than a comparably sized DigitalOcean or Hetzner server you manage yourself
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Deploy serverless code at the edge globally
