Vercel taught us
expensive habits.
Vercel is brilliant at edge. It's brutal on margins when you're hosting more than a handful of tenants. Boottify runs the same Next.js apps on a Kubernetes cluster you control — branded as you, priced per node, with the long-running backends Vercel pushes you to build elsewhere.
The bill didn't scale the way
the product demanded.
Per-function invocations
A webhook retry or a cron misfire translates directly into dollars. Boottify runs your functions as regular pods — one flat bill, predictable forever.
No real white-label
You can map your domain but not your brand. Your clients see Vercel's dashboard, Vercel's billing, Vercel's support tooltips. Ours you control end-to-end.
Edge-only mental model
Background workers, WebSockets, long tasks — all banished to a second provider. Boottify runs them in the same cluster as your app.
Apples-to-apples, roughly.
| Capability | Boottify | Vercel |
|---|---|---|
| White-label dashboard | Built-in | Not offered |
| Bring your own K8s cluster | Yes | No |
| Flat per-node pricing | Yes | Per-seat, per-function-invocation, per-bandwidth-GB |
| Long-running backends (WebSockets, workers) | First-class | Edge-first; limited |
| Docker-based marketplace templates | 500+ | Build-step frameworks only |
| Isolated namespace + network policy per tenant | Yes | Shared edge |
| Managed Postgres / Redis | Via marketplace templates | First-party (at higher tiers) |
Ninety percent of your code doesn't change.
{
"buildCommand": "next build",
"outputDirectory": ".next",
"functions": {
"src/app/api/**": {
"maxDuration": 10
}
},
"regions": ["iad1"]
}version: 1 runtime: image: node:22-alpine containerPort: 3000 healthEndpoint: /api/health build: command: npm run build start: command: npm run start env: NODE_ENV: production resources: cpu: 500m memory: 512Mi
Next 15 / Next 16 apps work as-is. Your existing Dockerfile also works — Boottify runs whatever containerizes.
Four steps. One afternoon.
- 01
Point your repo at Boottify
Add us as a git remote or connect via GitHub App. Same flow as Vercel.
- 02
Add a Dockerfile (or use ours)
If your project has one, we'll use it. If not, we'll pick a Next.js template that matches your framework version.
- 03
Map your domains
DNS flip goes green in minutes. Wildcard TLS comes free. Run old + new in parallel until cutover.
- 04
Move DNS traffic over
Gradual (weighted) or all-at-once. We stay quiet on the server-rendered edge while you watch the graphs.
What you keep
- Your Next.js app, unchanged
- Preview URLs per branch
- Zero-config TLS
- Environment variables + secrets UI
- Build logs streamed live
- Git-push deploys
- Rollbacks one click away
- Your team, under your brand
Switch the math.
Book a 20-minute migration call. We'll map your current Vercel bill to a flat per-node Boottify bill and show you exactly where the savings start.