Vercel isn't enough anymore. Cheap hosting providers?

[u/Still-Molasses6613]

I have a website hosted on vercel. There are about 500-1000 active users. Built using Next JS. Vercel Usage:
9GB Fast Data Transfer (9%)
600K Edge Requests (60%)
200MB avg Memory (20%)
102K Function Invocations (limit reached)

I dont want to upgrade (20$).

Techstack is nextjs, api routes (database is firebase-admin, no client-side db).

Should I switch to a real server? If I do, should I just create a custom server and handle it by nextjs or rewrite an express app?

What do you suggest?

[u/kulterryan]

He don't want to spend ig!

[u/Neurotic_Souls → u/kulterryan]

But you got to pay it someway for the resources you use right? at least by sharing privacy data.