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lots of free tiers have slow start up times when an app has been idle

(eg: heroku and render)

Not 100% sure if this is what is causing that on Vercel, but seems fair to me for free tiers?

People definitely get what they pay for. Heroku was and still is notoriously slow, charging a massive premium for convenience. I'm obviously biased because I built a CD service for AWS, but I strongly believe that when a hosting service doesn't advertise what hardware resources you are actually getting, it's a trap.

It's backed by lambda that has cold start. Don't think that part has to do with free tiers.

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