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Vercel
A hosting platform — from the makers of Next.js — that automatically builds and deploys a site whenever new code is pushed to its connected GitHub repository.
Vercel is a cloud hosting platform built by the team behind Next.js, the framework many modern sites (including this one) are built on. Its defining feature is continuous deployment: you connect a GitHub repository, and from then on every push of new code triggers an automatic build and deploy of the updated site. There is no manual upload step, no FTP, no "publishing" — saving the code is deploying it.
Vercel also handles the surrounding infrastructure a production site needs: global content delivery, automatic HTTPS with managed TLS certificates, and DNS configuration to point a domain at the platform. That removes a whole class of server-management work that would otherwise have to be set up and maintained by hand.
The result is a deployment pipeline that is fast and hard to break: code is reviewed in the repository, deploys are automatic and atomic, and a bad change can be rolled back to a previous deployment instantly.