Vercel

Vercel is built around Next.js, and much of its documentation assumes it. For other generators it is a capable static host with previews, rollbacks and edge functions, provided the configuration is explicit. The guides below cover that: configuring Hugo and Eleventy projects, taking full control with the Build Output API, keeping build caches for generators the platform does not recognise, and deciding when incremental static regeneration is worth its complexity compared with rebuilding.

The third branch also suits teams that build in their own CI.

Choosing the Right Static Site Generator for Production

robots.txt and noindex for Preview and StagingHow-toKeep preview, staging and platform-host copies of a static site out of search results with X-Robots-Tag headers on Netlify, Vercel and Cloudflare.

12 guides use Vercel in depth; each is listed below under the section it belongs to.

Core Web Vitals Optimization for SSGs

Cache-Control Headers on Vercel for Static SitesHow-toHow Vercel caches static output by default, when to override it in vercel.json, and how CDN-Cache-Control and immutable assets change repeat-visit performance.

Production-Ready Deployment & CI/CD for SSGs

Static Site Bandwidth Pricing: Netlify, Vercel, CloudflareComparisonModel monthly hosting cost for a static site on Netlify, Vercel and Cloudflare at four traffic levels, with the levers that cut bandwidth by half or more.
Vercel ISR vs Static Generation for SSGsComparisonISR rebuilds pages on demand; static generation builds everything upfront. Astro, Eleventy, Hugo, and Jekyll have no ISR — they rebuild and purge at the CDN.
Build Caching on Netlify and VercelHow-toMake Netlify and Vercel reuse dependency, framework and image caches between static site builds, verify cache hits in logs, and measure the savings.
Configuring Redirects on Vercel for Static SitesHow-toConfigure redirects for a static site on Vercel in vercel.json: patterns, status codes, trailing slashes, host redirects and limits, tested in CI.
Configuring Vercel for Hugo and EleventyHow-toDeploy Hugo and Eleventy sites on Vercel with pinned versions, the right output directory, clean URLs, trailing slashes, headers and redirects in vercel.json.
Deploying Astro to Vercel as a Fully Static SiteHow-toDeploy an Astro site to Vercel as pure static output with no functions: skipping the adapter, headers and redirects in vercel.json, and images.
Netlify Build Hooks for Content UpdatesHow-toTrigger Netlify rebuilds from a headless CMS without a Git push. Create, secure, time, and debug Netlify build hooks for automated static site content updates.
Security Headers on Vercel for Static SitesHow-toAdd HSTS, CSP, framing, referrer and permissions headers to a static site on Vercel with vercel.json, relax them only on previews, and test each deploy.
Vercel Build Output API for Custom SSGsHow-toDeploy any static site generator to Vercel with the Build Output API: static files, headers, redirects, cache rules and an optional edge function.
Fixing Vercel Builds That Run Out of MemoryFixDiagnose static site builds killed for memory on Vercel, from heap limits and image concurrency to huge data files, and fix them on the same machine.

Topic pages give the wider context for each group; the numbers count only guides that use this tool in depth.

Often used with Vercel

Netlify6 shared guidesHeaders, redirects, deploy previews and build caching.
Astro3 shared guidesIslands, content collections, astro:assets and deployment.
Eleventy3 shared guidesIncremental builds, image pipelines and the data cascade.
Hugo3 shared guidesBuild time at scale, image caches, modules and multilingual sites.
Cloudflare2 shared guidesPages and Workers hosting, cache rules and edge functions.
Jekyll1 shared guidesPlugins, reproducible builds, upgrades and migration away.