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Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by MrLeap »

mbleigh wrote: post #27
pixelmonkey wrote: post #15

May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012-2015. They were acquired by Google and their product was converted into Firebase Hosting. I haven't tried it, though: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

Founder of Divshot here, and engineering manager of the Firebase Hosting team. Thanks for the shoutout! :)

Your co-founder is one of my favorite people, we were good friends in high-school. I'm super proud of you guys whenever I see divshot mentioned. :)

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by stusmall »

learc83 wrote: post #21

The pricing seems a bit weird. I'm dubious about hosting something semi-important on the free tier, but the first paid price point is $45, which seems too high for easier static hosting.

I've had a site on the free tier for about a month now and have had zero issues. Page speed is great. It was easy to set up. I don't have a need for any of the paid features anytime soon and don't plan on upgrading. I've been recommending them to anyone who will listen.

It almost seems too good to be true but as other people have pointed out when its just static content their costs are so low. Since I don't use anything special on their platform, if anything ever happens migrating away should be a breeze too.

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by philsnow »

Does Netlify support 2FA for paid tiers? Their settings page is really clear about some features being available in certain plans (and btw I love this, it's really clear and it's not very aggressive of an upsell / not obnoxious), but there is no such callout for 2FA.

This is one critical feature that github pages has over Netlify. Github's 2FA is really nice, actually; you can add multiple U2F keys and you can also use TOTP and/or SMS if you want, all at the same time.

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by godzillabrennus »

StavrosK wrote: post #37

I use Netlify for all my static sites and it's been amazing. All I have to do is push and they take care of everything else, I can't understate how much I love the product. If you want to check out a live deployment, my website https://www.stavros.io/ is on Netlify. I especially like how they provide forms, lambdas and very easy testing by just pushing to another git branch. I don't see why anyone would use Github/Gi…

I’ve been using Netlify since at least 2015 and it’s invredible.

I’ve put a few small paying clients on their platform.

I hope they succeed!

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by tinyvm »

perplamps wrote: post #55
pixelmonkey wrote: post #15

May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012-2015. They were acquired by Google and their product was converted into Firebase Hosting. I haven't tried it, though: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

I use Firebase hosting for a static site that gets between 100-400gb of traffic per month, and it works out a bit cheaper than Netlify ($15-$50/m vs. flat $45/m). I hardly ever use their web interface and just deal with their one line CLI. My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two. That's why I'd be reluctant to use it for DB and auth stuff. I narrowly avoided jumping into…

> My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two

That's interesting , why Firebase would go away ?

It's just back end on top of GCloud.

Actually , everytime you do something in Firebase , it create a ressources in your GCloud account.

Firebase may not be super popular for SaaS but for Mobile , it's the king and by far , you can use it with no doubt.

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by manigandham »

brbcoding wrote: post #53
manigandham wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But where does the API come from? Dynamic content needs don't go away with static sites and usually it's yet another service to worry about.

In our case, we moved a blog from WP to a static Gatsby.js site. It's hosted on Netlify and all content is driven by Contentful where updates trigger a webhook on Netlify to rebuild the blog (new posts are pulled during this build process).

So now you're using 2 different services to host a site, instead of just using hosted Wordpress (or squarespace, wix, etc). Does Contentful provide the same content editing experience? What are the advantages here?

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by blocked_again »

tyingq wrote: post #26

I wonder if Cloudflare has plans to compete in this space. If they added it to the $20/month plan, it might push more conversion from the free plan.

Why will someone use a paid plan of CLoudflare when Netlify is already free?

Re: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Application Delivery Network

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Post by tyingq »

blocked_again wrote: post #68
tyingq wrote: post #26

I wonder if Cloudflare has plans to compete in this space. If they added it to the $20/month plan, it might push more conversion from the free plan.

Why will someone use a paid plan of CLoudflare when Netlify is already free?

To compete with Netlify's paid tiers.
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