Congrats! Hope they do great things with it. Use them to host a middleman site and love the service.
Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
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Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#32I 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!
HTTPS on S3 is quite easy, only requiring the addition of CloudFront.
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#33I've never understood Netlify.
They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs.
Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests.
See the YSlow report for their blog site below.
https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg
It receives an "F" rating.
Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#34Love love love Netlify! Moved my blog from Tumblr (lol - but it was free!) to Netlify with Hugo as the static site generator. A wonderful experience. With little effort, my blog now has SSL, auto-deploys after I git check-in, and is a million times faster. I wrote a tiny bit about the migration process: https://www.netkow.com/moving-from-tumblr-to-hugo-netlify/
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
We do support GitLab on prem already, but right now it doesn't let you trigger deploy previews and branch deploys. Currently that's something we can help with on the custom plan, but we do hope to bring it to the normal tiers as well.
oh nice! thats a welcome change - seems like last time I looked wasnt even 6 months ago and it was not there yet - branch deploys would be one of my exact use cases for sure
disclaimer: i work at Netlify.
ping us in support and I can talk you through the setup w/the private repo (and branch deploys can be simulated with a few netlify sites attached to the same repo - no additional cost for additional sites on any plan)
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#36On the main page there's an interactive tutorial $ npm install netlify -g /usr/local/bin/netlify -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/netlify-cli/bin/cli.js ├── left-pad@0.0.3 ├── isarray@1.0.0 ├── is-positive-integer@1.1.1 ├── babel@6.5.2 I hope this was a joke because it made me laugh a lot
I'm sure there's a jquery plugin to add variables somewhere.
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#37I've never understood Netlify. They are supposed to be targeted at static high performance blogs. Yet their own blog is 15MB in size and over 100 different http requests. See the YSlow report for their blog site below. https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.netlify.com/C6fG3uTg It receives an "F" rating. Isn't this kind of bloated website the exact problem Netlify is suppose to solve?
To be fair, 14.4MB of that is images (I don't know why some of them are that large, however). Does their offering specifically have something related to image optimization / scaling (I'm unfamiliar with Netlify)?
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
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" :)
Ah, I never thought about it that way until now.
In any case, I'm a huge fan of Netlify. Thanks for the service!
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
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" :)
Thanks for the mental reference... it's still a terrible name though.
Re: Netlify Raises $12M from A16Z
#40I love Netlify and how much they support open source projects (thanks!). Hosting a quick mockup is very easy: drag-and-drop zip, done. It comes with Lets Encrypt SSL, CDN, deploy preview and history.