Migrate Your Next.js App From Vercel to Your Own Infrastructure
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More people are getting concerned about Vercel's rising costs (which is especially apparent when projects hosted there become popular).
We put this guide together to show that it's entirely possible to migrate a full-featured Next.js app (SSR, API Routes, ISR, etc.) to your own infra, hosted on a small VPS (Hetzner, Digital Ocean, or AWS Lightsail or EC2).
Happy to answer any questions!
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