Migrate from Vercel to Runsite

// the mental model

Every Vercel concept has a Runsite home

Most Vercel projects ship with little more than a vercel.json, and plenty ship with none at all, just framework auto-detection. Runsite rebuilds the same app a different way: Railpack detects your framework and builds it with no config, or you point us at a Dockerfile you already trust. Either way it runs as one always-on container, not a spread of serverless functions. Honest about what's automatic and what you handle once.

{
  "framework": "nextjs",
  "buildCommand": "next build",
  "functions": {
    "api/*.ts": { "maxDuration": 60 }
  },
  "crons": [
    { "path": "/api/digest", "schedule": "0 8 * * *" }
  ]
}

// step by step

From Vercel to live in the EU

Six steps. Most of them take seconds. Vercel keeps serving traffic until you flip your DNS.

1. 1

   Create a Runsite project

   ~30 sec

   Sign in at runsite.app and create an empty project. No credit card, and no per-invocation meter ticking in the background.

2. 2

   Connect your Git repo

   Railpack · or your Dockerfile

   Authorize GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket. Railpack auto-detects your framework and builds it, or you drop in a Dockerfile and Runsite builds exactly that. It's the same git push you used on Vercel.

3. 3

   Recreate your data in Frankfurt

   Postgres · Redis

   Provision a managed PostgreSQL and Redis with one click each. They replace Vercel Postgres and KV, run in the EU, and come with connection strings ready to wire into your env.

4. 4

   Copy your environment variables

   vercel env pull

   Run vercel env pull to export your variables, then paste them into Runsite. Secrets are encrypted at rest and never logged.

5. 5

   Move your database

   pg_dump → pg_restore

   pg_dump from Vercel Postgres (or your Neon or Supabase origin) and restore into Runsite with pg_restore. Your DATABASE_URL is already wired to the new database.

6. 6

   Deploy & cut over DNS

   Live in < 2 min

   git push, verify on your Runsite URL, then point your custom domain when ready. Vercel keeps serving until you flip DNS, so you can roll back any time.

// no surprises

What moves on its own — and what you touch

Honest about the boundaries. The supported stack is recreated in one click; a short list needs a human, and Runsite flags every item.