Cloud & Hosting
Cloud providers, hosting platforms, CDNs, and deployment infrastructure.
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What this section covers
Where does the code actually run, and what does the request path look like when it does? This section is the reference shelf for cloud platforms, deployment targets, and the network-level plumbing that sits between your users and your app. You'll find detailed pages on Vercel for Next.js hosting, Cloudflare for edge, CDN, and Workers, plus the major clouds — AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure — with practical notes for the AI-adjacent services (Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI) that matter right now. A growing subsection covers AI gateways, including Vercel AI Gateway, Cloudflare AI Gateway, OpenRouter, and Portkey, for teams who want one endpoint that can fail over across providers. Plus foundational DNS, domain, and SSL references because nothing else matters if the domain isn't pointed correctly. Read this when you're picking where to deploy, comparing gateway costs, or debugging why your TLS cert is throwing errors in production.
AI Gateways
AI Gateways are infrastructure layers that sit between your applications and AI model providers, providing unified API routing, intelligent failover, cost ma...
Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock is AWS's fully managed service for building AI applications with foundation models. It provides API access to models from Anthropic (Claude), ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
AWS is a comprehensive cloud platform offering over 200 services from data centers globally. In VibeReference, AWS provides infrastructure for hosting, stora...
AWS Bedrock as an AI Gateway
AWS Bedrock functions as a managed AI gateway within the AWS ecosystem, giving you unified API access to foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral, Coh...
Azure OpenAI Service
Azure OpenAI Service gives you GPT-4 and DALL-E with enterprise security and compliance. Setup guide, API config, and regional deployment for Next.js apps.
Cloudflare
Cloudflare is a global cloud services provider that offers a range of performance and security solutions for websites and applications. In VibeReference, Clo...
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Cloudflare AI Gateway is a free observability and control layer for AI applications that provides caching, rate limiting, analytics, cost tracking, and reque...
Cloudflare Workers vs Vercel Edge Functions
Compare Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions. Runtime, cold starts, global distribution, pricing, data stores, and when each platform wins.
Comparing AI Gateways
AI gateways sit between your application and the AI providers — handling authentication, routing, caching, fallbacks, and observability. The right gateway de...
DNS (Domain Name System)
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a critical internet infrastructure component that translates human-friendly domain names (like example.com) into IP addresses...
Domain Management
Domain names are the addresses users type into their browsers to access your website. Proper domain management is essential for establishing your brand ident...
EC2 t4g vs t3: Which Instance Type to Use
AWS offers two burstable instance families that solo founders commonly reach for: **t3** (Intel/AMD x86) and **t4g** (AWS Graviton2 ARM). They provide the sa...
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is Google's suite of cloud computing services. It offers infrastructure, AI/ML services, databases, networking, and developer too...
Google Vertex AI
Google Vertex AI is Google Cloud's enterprise machine learning platform. It provides access to Gemini models, custom model training, and MLOps tools with ent...
How to Fix Common Vercel Account Issues
Vercel is the go-to deployment platform for solo founders, but account issues can stop your project cold. This guide covers the most common Vercel account pr...
How to Update Paperclip
There are two ways to update Paperclip: the quick way using `npx`, or the manual way by checking out a specific git tag over SSH.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud computing platform offering infrastructure, AI services, databases, and developer tools. For web application develop...
OpenRouter
OpenRouter is a unified API gateway that provides access to 300+ AI models from 60+ providers through a single endpoint, with transparent pass-through pricin...
Portkey AI Gateway
Portkey is an AI gateway that provides a unified API across 200+ language models with built-in fallbacks, load balancing, semantic caching, and an observabil...
Running Claude Code Agents on EC2: Beyond the Basics
You have Claude Code running on an EC2 instance. The initial setup is done — Node.js installed, API keys configured, maybe Tailscale for secure access. Now y...
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
SSL and its successor TLS (Transport Layer Security) are cryptographic protocols designed to provide secure communication over a computer network. For VibeRe...
Vercel
Vercel is a platform for frontend frameworks and static sites, built to integrate with your headless content, commerce, or database.
Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway is a managed AI routing layer that integrates directly with the Vercel AI SDK, providing automatic provider routing, model fallbacks, and u...
Vercel Analytics
Vercel Analytics is a built-in analytics solution for applications deployed on the Vercel platform. It provides insights into web performance, user behavior,...
Vercel Blob
Vercel Blob is a serverless file storage solution integrated with the Vercel platform. It provides a simple API for uploading, serving, and managing files (i...
Vercel Domains
Connect a custom domain to your Vercel project in 3 steps. DNS records, SSL setup, www vs apex, and CLI commands for production deployments.