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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 securityfreak »

awill wrote: post #65

Netlify is great. I have 5 sites there. All for free. My only concern is that it's too good to be true. I hope nothing changes for the worse (i.e. they get bought and cripple the free tier).

I knew nothing about Netlify before this post, so this is a purely generic, rational note: yes it will. You lure in customers with an attractive free tier and then change it so you can monetize at least some of them and be profitable. Choosing the right business model however, is what I think shows the true character of the company’s leadership. Unfortunately greed usually wins. But enjoy the product while it lasts. Might be a good amount of months, or even years before that happens.

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

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Post by moeamaya »

I have a few popular HN-launched static sites on Netlify including https://servicelist.io/. Not only do they provide a seamless hosting and CDN (cache-expiring) experience but they also have a wonderful multi-user CMS that eliminates about half of my Rails sites!

I'll reiterate a few other sentiments in this thread, it feels a bit too good to be true. Even with 300k monthly traffic, not paying a dime seems like a precarious situation to be in for a free service.

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

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Post by mstijak »

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…

It's very simple to configure url rewriting and pre-rendering for SPAs. CxJS website (https://cxjs.io) and documentation is hosted on Netlify and it has been an amazing experience so far. We were on their single user $9 paid plan, but they switched us on the free tier with the pricing change some time ago.

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

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Post by blocked_again »

moeamaya wrote: post #162

I have a few popular HN-launched static sites on Netlify including https://servicelist.io/ . Not only do they provide a seamless hosting and CDN (cache-expiring) experience but they also have a wonderful multi-user CMS that eliminates about half of my Rails sites! I'll reiterate a few other sentiments in this thread, it feels a bit too good to be true. Even with 300k monthly traffic, not paying a dime seems like a pr…

Is 300k monthly traffic even a big deal when all you are doing is serving static files?

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

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Post by gorbypark »

I've been tinkering with Netlify for a year or two now and have two production sites on it for the last ~6 months, and it's amazing. If you have a site built with Vue/React/Angular, there really is no reason to not use Netlify! I've even been playing around with some API endpoints using Netlify Functions (which is AWS Lambda) and it's pretty neat, you can develop the front end and back end in the same repo and have it all automagically deploy with a git push.

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

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Post by mkasu »

_fool wrote: post #129
drawkbox wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I work for netlify, and yes, we ask you to upgrade, don't just turn you off if you go over.

My concern was that there is no clear upgrade path for static websites, if running out of free bandwidth.

All per-site addons focus on different kinds of dynamic features (Forms, Identity, Functions, ...) I suppose a Team account would work, but that also seems like paying for unneeded features.

The support team just linked me to the pricing page.

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

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Post by tacticus »

_fool wrote: post #129
drawkbox wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I work for netlify, and yes, we ask you to upgrade, don't just turn you off if you go over.

Hey Sorry to jump on something unrelated but i have a super tiny personal site on netlify and would love a smaller plan so i can actually pay you.

I know it's probably not worth it for you to do such a thing but an optional pay money for nothing extra compared to the free hosting option would be great

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