Netlify has a free plan and you don't have to tinker with containers.
I've seen Netlify mentioned a few times now. Are there any downsides/negatives to using it?
Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs
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Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs
#72If you don't use SaaS blog platform and host it on a VPS it counts as self-hosting?
In this case shared hosting will be even cheaper and maintenance free. System, server, Let's encrypt cert, database and language updates will be taken care of. Many of those PHP CMS-es or blogging systems have a one click updates in place. Some shared hosting providers can also take care of this for you. You can get something with ssh access and rsync so you can be lazy and edit HTML with Word and just sync it or an SSG if that strikes your fancy.
Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs
#73Netlify has a free plan and you don't have to tinker with containers.
I've seen Netlify mentioned a few times now. Are there any downsides/negatives to using it?
I’ve wondered the same thing. It’s so ridiculously convenient that there has to a catch!
I previously used the S3 + Cloudfront setup that many commenters have mentioned, but have switched to Netlify for static sites simply because I don’t have the overhead of setting up any configuration in AWS. With Netlify, you can be up and running with a new static site as soon as the DNS record propagates.
I’ve always wondered if there was any throttling or performance impact at high traffic- but I haven’t built any high-traffic sites yet :)
Re: Self-hosting a blog for cheap and lazy devs
#74Netlify has a free plan and you don't have to tinker with containers.
I've seen Netlify mentioned a few times now. Are there any downsides/negatives to using it?
One catch is 100gb limit but for a personal site you will never hit that.
Anyone recommending S3, github pages etc hasn't tried Netlify.