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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 L_Rahman »

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…

whoa

stavros.io is FAST. I'm sure Netlify deserves some credit but much of it belongs to your static approach and the decision not to load the page with 200 JS calls.

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

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Post by hokumguru »

lappet wrote: post #82
brianfryer wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I loved using Divshot, and was sad when their service was shuttered. I’ve been using Netlify ever since, though, and have launched 20+ web projects in the past 18 months. Easily my favorite hosting solution I’ve ever used.

Is it free for personal projects?

It’s just free for most projects. You pay for lambdas and forms, etc.

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

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Post by tschellenbach »

jypepin wrote: post #3

Ok, I'm a web dev and I hate having to deal with web servers, configs, CI, etc. The idea sounds great, but I can't understand how this works from this post. Can someone explain how this works exactly? Are they basically offering a way to prebuild apps to static assets and host them on CDNs? How do server-side only things will happen then?

As far as I can tell it just automatically runs yarn build an does a copy to S3 whenever something happens in your GIT repo.

Setting up a few scripts and S3/Cloudfront to do this on your own takes a bit of work. With Netlify you just press the button it seems.

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

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Post by breckuh »

bobfunk wrote: post #95
sytse wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love how Netlify allows you to use the benefits of static site technology (like distributed version control) while allowing for dynamic site functionality like forms. I looked at the documentation for forms https://www.netlify.com/docs/form-handling/#receiving-submis... and it looks very easy. I can see how people would use Netlify over GitLab. By the way, in GitLab we allow you to test a branch with a review app.…

Lots of people use Netlify with GitLab as well. Some using our connection to GitLab and some pushing from GitLab's CI to Netlify via CLI.

I just built a test site with Netlify + GitLab. Why must I give it full access to all of my GitLab repositories? I just want to deploy 1 repo. Seems like that opens up unnecessary possibilities for a security breach.

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

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Post by manigandham »

fvdessen wrote: post #83
manigandham wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The advantage is that the resulting website being just static pages will be much faster and secure that your hosted wordpress. And compared to wix etc, you have a lot more control on the appearance and structure of your website, because you can use wathever static website builder you choose

How is it more secure when you're still accessing an API? Wordpress itself might not be the best product but other fully-hosted services are all the same, whether they render the site or just give you an API.

A CDN is equally fast when the content is cached, and if you're building the entire site as static pages then it's not really a dynamic site in the first place and can also be done with HTML or markdown in the same repo.

The fine control seems the be the only real advantage, at the cost of more moving pieces.

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

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Post by matt2000 »

I don't quite get this. I'm a long time Heroku user and this seems to be much more limited and not much better in any dimension, why is this so popular?

This is an honest question, I just don't quite get why there's so much excitement in the comments.

Thanks!

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

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Post by dean177 »

matt2000 wrote: post #116

I don't quite get this. I'm a long time Heroku user and this seems to be much more limited and not much better in any dimension, why is this so popular? This is an honest question, I just don't quite get why there's so much excitement in the comments. Thanks!

It has a generous free tier.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

L_Rahman wrote: post #111
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…

whoa stavros.io is FAST. I'm sure Netlify deserves some credit but much of it belongs to your static approach and the decision not to load the page with 200 JS calls.

Thank you! Yes, I hate slow websites, I have removed as much as I could easily remove, mainly all the social crap. If you look closely, the social buttons are actually static images and links.

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

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Post by cupar »

drawkbox wrote: post #101

Not seeing any bandwidth, storage or other costs so I wonder what their soft/hard limits are for those things. I see their forms have really low limits for the price 1000 submissions and 1GB file upload limits, 2m functions on the $45 plan [1]. [1] https://www.netlify.com/pricing/

They can be found in the TOS (see Quota & Limits section)

https://www.netlify.com/tos/

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

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Post by drawkbox »

cupar wrote: post #119
drawkbox wrote: post #101

Not seeing any bandwidth, storage or other costs so I wonder what their soft/hard limits are for those things. I see their forms have really low limits for the price 1000 submissions and 1GB file upload limits, 2m functions on the $45 plan [1]. [1] https://www.netlify.com/pricing/

They can be found in the TOS (see Quota & Limits section) https://www.netlify.com/tos/

Thanks, strange it is in the ToS.

For paid accounts:

- Network bandwidth: 1TB/month - Soft

- Storage: 1TB - Soft

- API requests: 500 requests/minute, 3 deploys/minute* - Hard

For free accounts:

- Network Bandwidth: 100GB/month - Soft

- Storage: 100GB - Soft

- API requests: 500 requests/minute, 3 deploys/minute* - Hard

I wonder if they do overages, or just a hard cut-off, no mention. They probably nudge users that go over soft limits to the enterprise column.

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