What do I need to set up Vercel on a VPS?

You need a VPS (starting at $4-6/month), SSH access, and the app code in a GitHub repo. For Vercel and VPS, you also need environment variables, a domain, and SSL configured before going live.

How long does it take to move to a VPS?

A straightforward Vercel deployment takes 2-4 hours for someone familiar with servers. RepoAssistant does it in 24h with a ship-or-refund guarantee.

How much does it cost to host Vercel on a VPS?

A VPS for Vercel or VPS starts at $4-6/month for a 1-2 GB instance from providers like Hetzner, DigitalOcean, or Hostinger. RepoAssistant's deploy service is a fixed $39-149 one-time fee.

What if something breaks after deployment?

Every deployment includes a smoke test (login, forms, database writes, API calls) and a handover doc with restart, rollback, and deploy commands. If the app is blocked pre-launch, we fix and ship within 24h or refund.

Bot traffic rescue

Vercel suspended your deploy because of bot traffic

Vercel enforces bandwidth and function execution limits. Bot crawlers, scrapers, or sudden traffic spikes can push a small app over the line and get the deploy pulled.

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What is probably broken

Your app went live, bots found it, Vercel limits triggered, and now your deploy is suspended or throttled with no warning.

What production should look like

Your app running on infrastructure that does not pull deploys for bot traffic, with monitoring and rate limiting in place.

STEP 01

Check your Vercel usage

Find what triggered the limit and whether you can recover the deploy.

Open the Vercel dashboard and check bandwidth, function executions, and build minutes.
Identify which bot or traffic source caused the spike.
Check whether you can restore the deploy or need to request a limit increase.

STEP 02

Move to infrastructure that does not suspend deploys

A VPS does not care about bot traffic. It serves requests until the box is full.

Export your Vercel project env vars and build config.
Deploy the app on a VPS with nginx and HTTPS.
Add rate limiting and bot filtering at the server level.

STEP 03

Add monitoring before the next spike

Know when traffic grows before the server breaks.

Install lightweight analytics (Umami or Plausible).
Set up server resource monitoring for CPU, memory, and disk.
Add log-based alerting for error rate spikes.

Quick check

Is your app production-ready?

If you cannot tick all five, we can fix it. Send us the repo and we handle the rest.

?Custom domain with HTTPS
?Environment variables configured
?Database wired and backed up
?Auto-deploy on push
?Smoke tested and live

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