The problem is that they will price gouge you to hell

You mean using your domain name and not -vercel.app? I don’t know .. probably. I’ve been trying out different hosting providers as I try out different tools.

Vercel is made by the creators of next.js so if you want to use nextjs, vercel might be a good fit.

For me, neo4j is resource hungry, but I’m not sure precisely how resource hungry my project is gonna get which means I’m gonna need to scale resources up as I go along and find out what’s possible. All part of R&D. Which is why I moved my back end to AWS.