Why I Deploy Everything on Vercel (and Why You Should Care)

If your website is on GoDaddy, Bluehost, or similar shared hosting, you're paying $10-30/month for a server that's shared with hundreds of other sites. It's slow, it's insecure, and it's unnecessary.

Every site I build deploys to Vercel. Here's why:

It's free for most sites. Vercel's free tier includes 100GB of bandwidth, automatic SSL, and a global CDN. That's enough for virtually any small business site. You pay $0/month.

It's fast everywhere. Vercel has edge servers around the world. When someone in Kelowna visits your site, it loads from a server nearby — not from a shared server in Texas. Pages load in under a second.

It's secure by default. SSL certificates are automatic and free. There's no server to hack because there is no server — your site is pre-built and served as static files from a CDN. No PHP vulnerabilities, no database injections, no WordPress exploits.

Zero maintenance. No server updates, no security patches, no cPanel. If your site needs a change, I push code and it's live in 30 seconds. No FTP, no file managers, no downtime.

Automatic deployments. Every change goes through a build process that catches errors before they go live. If something breaks, the previous version stays up automatically.

The catch? You need a developer to make changes. But that's true of any good website. The difference is that with Vercel, the $20-30/month you save on hosting goes straight to your bottom line.

For an Okanagan business doing $10,000/month in revenue, saving $30/month on hosting while getting 10x better performance is a no-brainer.