Wasn't aware of Netlify until now - the product looks great!
I think I'll try it out with some upcoming projects.
Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
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Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#12Static sites are becoming more and more popular -- you can host them on CDNs across the globe, they can be cached client-side, pre-loaded, work offline.... Especially important thinking about the billions of people in developing countries accessing the Internet over 2G connections. If the trend towards static sites continues, Netlify could be the next Heroku. Personally, I use Netlify to host my Gatsby blog; all I ne…
For me the biggest appeal of static sites is that I now have significantly less attack surface to think about. The chances of someone finding an RCE in Amazon S3 are way less than than the same occurring on some old Apache 2 server where auto-update broke a couple months ago because of the linux kernel headers eating up all my inodes.
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#13I'm a big user of Netlify, and host a number of sites with well over a million views a year and they have been rock solid, quick builds, quick support. I can't wait for them to take off!
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#14Read that as Netflix the first time. Was confused since Netflix's valuation is well past $50b+
Yeh, not a fan of the name, and not just for the obvious reason. I'm honestly not even sure how to say it properly. There's too many syllables for such a short name.
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#15Static sites are becoming more and more popular -- you can host them on CDNs across the globe, they can be cached client-side, pre-loaded, work offline.... Especially important thinking about the billions of people in developing countries accessing the Internet over 2G connections. If the trend towards static sites continues, Netlify could be the next Heroku. Personally, I use Netlify to host my Gatsby blog; all I ne…
> Static sites are becoming more and more popular
Indeed.
I literally just finished showing my daughter (10) and son (12) how to move their stuff from codepen.io to surge.sh[1]
The future is static :)
[1] a Vancouver based Netlify "competitor".
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#16Read that as Netflix the first time. Was confused since Netflix's valuation is well past $50b+
Yeah, especially when the HN page looks like this - http://i.imgur.com/hpnAiim.png
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#17Read that as Netflix the first time. Was confused since Netflix's valuation is well past $50b+
Yeh, not a fan of the name, and not just for the obvious reason. I'm honestly not even sure how to say it properly. There's too many syllables for such a short name.
Think "simplify" but with "net" :)
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#18Just published my first application on Netlify yesterday. I looked at Surge.sh but their pricing doesn't include the SSL certificate. Netlify SSL with Let's Encrypt was literally a button press. Good stuff!
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#19Netlify is really good for static sites, but you can also combine their static site resources with Flatmarket or Snipcart and create ecommerce sites as well.
I'd suggest checking out their blog (https://www.netlify.com/blogs/), they have a ton of tutorials on the multiple static site generators they support
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#20I moved some static sites to Netlify from S3 because it seemed easier than getting HTTPS working on S3. It certainly was, and I haven't looked back. The automatic generation of a static site from the repo is a killer feature I didn't know I needed until I tried it.
Congrats to the team!