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Netlify, a sevice for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M

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Re: Netlify, a sevice for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M

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Post by calavera »

StavrosK wrote: post #4

I think I'm not understanding what it does, but why does it cost $9/mo/site to serve some static content? Isn't that basically free nowadays? I guess my question is "what does Netlify do that GitHub pages doesn't"?

Netlify CTO here (so I'm very biased).

These are some things that you can do with our Pages tier FREE, that you cannot do with GH Pages:

- We don't restrict people to only one static site generator, like Jekyll. You have use whatever with our Continuous Deployment.

- Automatic rollbacks at the CDN level. If you push a broken site, you don't need to stress about fixing the issue, pushing again, and waiting until the changes are published again. We have a big button that says "Rollback". Clicking that, our CDN automatically purges your site and promotes the good version you want. After that, you can spend as much time as you want writing a proper fix.

- Deploy Previews for Pull Requests hosted live. We build each pull request and put it in a subdomain so you can collaborate building sites much easily. Blog post announcement: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/07/20/introducing-deploy-p...

- Automatic provisioning and renewals of Let's Encrypt certificates for custom domains. If you have a custom domain, we do that for you, you don't have to worry about anything.

- Free custom domains, you have to have a paid subscription with GitHub if you want to use your own domain.

As I said again, those things are FREE with our initial plan, $0.

Happy to answer more questions if you have more.

Re: Netlify, a sevice for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M

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Post by bobfunk »

welanes wrote: post #5

Doesn't Firebase hosting do this already - SSL, CDN, push from the command-line - for free? Pubstorm, too.

Netlify founder here. Firebase hosting is great for simple static content that you push manually.

We do continuous deployment with deep git integration that'll create unique preview URLs for each pull request, making it awesome to collaborate on single page apps or content driven websites.

In general you'll find a very deep feature set that's making it possible to take this approach to building sites all the way from simple prototypes to running, maintaining and serving huge projects.

Re: Netlify, a sevice for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M

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Post by welanes »

bobfunk wrote: post #8
welanes wrote: post #5

Doesn't Firebase hosting do this already - SSL, CDN, push from the command-line - for free? Pubstorm, too.

Netlify founder here. Firebase hosting is great for simple static content that you push manually. We do continuous deployment with deep git integration that'll create unique preview URLs for each pull request, making it awesome to collaborate on single page apps or content driven websites. In general you'll find a very deep feature set that's making it possible to take this approach to building sites all the way from…

Gotcha. The very best of luck!

Re: Netlify, a sevice for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M

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Post by sytse »

calavera wrote: post #3
sytse wrote: post #2

Congrats! And thanks for adding GitLab integration https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/07/13/gitlab-integration

Thanks Sid! It was actually very easy to integrate. Thanks for making the API so easy to use.

You're welcome, glad to hear that.
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