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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 zackbloom »

xrd wrote: post #179
xrd wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assumed they were for service workers with SPAs. Not the case? The AWS landscape is so massive it's hard to understand what everything does. I'll check out CloudFlare workers, thank you.

Funny, I keep getting confused between CloudFront and CloudFlare and assumed this was another AWS product but it obviously isn't. Do workers somehow operate inside your AWS stack via distributions of CloudFront? If not, that's probably not going to work, we have so much in S3, etc. But, if that assumption is incorrect, can you point me to a document that suggests a transition path?

Cloudflare is actually a totally different company, yes! Here is more info about Workers: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/

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

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Post by browsercoin »

mr_toad wrote: post #149
browsercoin wrote: post #135

i dont get why i should use netlify over aws? what is the advantage here, i might give it a try.

What part or AWS? Lightsail? S3 pages? Cloudfront? Lambda?

you can do it with cloudformation, although the SSL stuff might need automation but nothing impossible.

where does netlify host my site? with git hooks you can trigger CI and automation on AWS, perhaps even AWS SWF

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

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Post by tathougies »

d3sandoval wrote: post #176
tathougies wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on the difference here? Mounting an NFS share is almost universally easier, in my experience.

/woosh I think the commenter is referring to this infamous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Haha... I wasn't on Hacker News then, so I beg your forgiveness :)

That's funny, but as someone who still does not use drop box, NFS shares seem a lot easier to me than setting up drop box. I think I tried drop box once but I found it more onerous to log in than to type mount /mnt/nfs , so.... I guess I'm not the target market (and that's okay!).

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

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Post by moeamaya »

blocked_again wrote: post #166
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?

With images it can definitely add up. On S3 + Cloudfront, I was paying about $85/mo for coolbackgrounds.io

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

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Post by panda427 »

tyingq wrote: post #141
panda427 wrote: post #84

Built vote by mail website for Florida ( https://www.stampthevote.com ) using a single JSON file with 1500 zip codes and Gatsby.js and deployed with Netlify. Great to be in the future and not have to worry about hosting a server for such a simple site.

Nice work. I did see a small issue...you're getting the string "(undefined)" in some of the page titles: How to Vote in Clay County (undefined)

Thank you

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

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Post by yannovitch »

Netlify has been very tempting these last years, and it looks like they're constantly upping their game, but still, I think will pass.

Why ? Because it's a US company. I am trying very hard to give the least data I can to companies under the Patriot Act, and by subscribing to Netlify, which afaik have their main datacenter in the US, I would be "offering" it all my most precious content. So even if it is more work, I will host my static websites on my personal Gitlab instance (which has lots of workers based on Docker to automatically deploy your Hugo/Jekyll/... website).

Or do you think I am being too paranoid ?

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