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Vendor lock-in with Vercel makes migration to other hosting providers difficult
8/10 HighFeatures work seamlessly on Vercel but become problematic when deployed elsewhere, creating tight coupling to Vercel's infrastructure. Some developers have inherited projects so tightly coupled to Vercel that migrating to other hosting providers like AWS proved nearly impossible, sometimes requiring complete rewrites.
Sources
- https://www.wisp.blog/blog/why-should-you-move-off-nextjs
- https://northflank.com/blog/why-we-ditched-next-js-and-never-looked-back
- https://www.flaming.codes/posts/beyond-nextjs-state-fullstack-javascript-frameworks-2025
- https://enstacked.com/why-companies-are-moving-away-from-next-js/
- https://biggo.com/news/202509021915_Next.js_Developer_Frustrations
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099922
Collection History
Query: “What are the most common pain points with Next.js in 2025?”3/27/2026
Several developers shared stories of inheriting Next.js projects that were so tightly coupled to Vercel's infrastructure that migrating to other hosting providers proved nearly impossible, sometimes requiring complete rewrites.
Created: 3/27/2026Updated: 3/27/2026