SaaS workflow · 4 picks
Ship: Deploy, hosting and backend
In this category we evaluate tools for paas and edge platforms, vps, databases/baas, auth, transactional email, payments. We pick software based on real maker workflows, prioritizing genuine free tiers and CLI/API ergonomics while testing deploy times and clear failure modes.
Reviews & comparisons
Vercel vs Cloudflare Pages vs Netlify
Hosted Vercel Hobby HTML and API checks from US-East/IAD, a Cloudflare Pages recheck, and Netlify local evidence with current credit math. Hosted Netlify not tested.
Netlify Free: local Functions and the credit budget
50 local Function requests returned 200 with a 161 ms median. Routing checks, current credit arithmetic and an explicit hosted-signup blocker.
Auth.js vs Clerk vs Supabase Auth
50 local Auth.js session reads at a 3.405 ms median, plus negative checks, Clerk retained-user billing and Supabase’s default-email restriction.
Cloudflare Pages free plan, hands-on
A real free-plan deploy from the command line: timings, latency from Singapore, gotchas we hit, and when Workers static assets is the better pick.