Cannot have custom domains on Hobby plan?
Hey, I see that there was a recent update not allowing us to have more than one custom domain for a Hobby plan. Which is fine.
However, it doesn't even allow us to have subdomains.
I am building a small hobby Elixir project that essentially does a redirect using Redis, so domain
urly.ws/abc -> Elixir service (Railway) -> Redirects to google.com
urly.ws -> Elixir service (Railway) -> Redirects to app.urly.ws (Vercel)
app.urly.ws -> Nextjs Frontend (Vercel) <- All good here
www.urly.ws/abc <<<< CANNOT HAVE MORE THAN 1 DOMAIN
www.urly.ws <<<< CANNOT HAVE MORE THAN 1 DOMAIN
And I know this was a recent change, because I did it for a different domain few days ago (0ven.io, but I had to rename it)
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Where did you see this update? I wasn't aware of this 😅
https://discord.com/channels/713503345364697088/1179231533945602079
was rolled out silently
ah, right
😬
I was dealing with this last week, and now it says you gotta have a pro plan.
I think it make sense when you actually have multiple domains, but subdomains also, really? 🥲
Vercel allows unlimited it seems domains and subdomains
would you mind sharing what you are registering subdomains on the service for?
Service should be available from the root and www domains
That’s 99% of services out there
www.example.com
And example.com
Right now you have to pick one of them
www to non www can usually be done at the dns level in most cases
Yeah, but it wasn’t the case earlier, and the error is “you can’t register another domain on hobby tier (more than 1).”
But that’s technically a subdomain of a domain thats already added
I think real domains makes sense to limit
Because it would mean that the project is probably not a hobby project if requires more than one domain
a subdomain is still a domain, any reason you don't want to do the redirect at the dns level?
But limiting sub domains is brutal
I will have to
did you have a usecase for other subdomains than www?
Just unclear why this was changed in the first place
So I have root and www for Railway
And “app” subdomain for Vercel
it was actually an accidental rollout and it was supposed to roll out just before today's upcoming changelog
Vercel doesn’t limit customers on their end, subdomains or just domains
in the changelog they will provide extra clarification on why
Well, if that helps with sales
they aren't doing it as a shallow upsell
they're doing it to better differentiate between hobby and pro use-cases
That’s the same thing
not quite in my opinion
Removing features from Hobby tier and putting a pay wall there
I mean it’s fine, companies need to make money
there was always meant to be a limit, it was just a matter of time when they got around to implementing it
Just unclear why they made it so granular, subdomains shouldn’t have been affected imho
I'm sure there will be better clarification in the changelog that I'm not able to provide
Www and root are very common to have for any application
and you can do www to non www at the dns level in most cases
It will be a redirect
An additional redirect that I wanted to avoid
You can’t have both www.urly.ws and urly.ws
Obviously if my application gets more attention I am happy to use another tier, but at the phase of testing it’s just a complication
from my understanding you usually want a redirect? I can't recall a site that hasn't redirected me from www to non www