I recently moved my site[0] from WordPress to Netlify
Used HUGO and then one of my Post regarding MacBook Thermals was trending on HN, The site had more than 12K visitors. If I had been using WordPress I could only imagine how catastrophic that would be. Though I crossed their 100GB limit. But since this was a rare spike in traffic I feel their free plan is very generous. Netlify+ static site generators is good alternative for WordPress.
[0] https://bsid.io
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#172Can anyone explain the elevator pitch of Netlify to me? I know it's become quite popular in the last couple of years and I can't figure out why. I don't doubt that it's good at what it does, but it seems to do the same thing as any number of services. For example, I see a lot of people talk about it for static sites. But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. What does Netlif…
> But you get free static sites through GitHub GitHub doesn't support a build process, right? So you would have to do that yourself and commit that. > nearly free static sites on Amazon S3 You'll have to manage the build and deploy here yourself then. Netlify is great because its easy, and free (if you're under their bandwidth cap). They have really cool features like automatically deploying a preview environment for…
for Amazon S3 i setup the s3, cloudfront & cert manually (should put it in terraform, but it takes just a second). here's a nice article to walk you through that (says it's for hugo, but you could use it for any ssg): https://agop.me/post/https-enabled-portfolio-hugo-s3-cloudfr...
then i build and deploy with a bash tool i made called NanoCD: https://github.com/tkjef/NanoCD
has lots of helpful options. easy to wrap your head around. easy to add whatever workflows,tests you'd like.
Re: Netlify Dev
#173Can anyone explain the elevator pitch of Netlify to me? I know it's become quite popular in the last couple of years and I can't figure out why. I don't doubt that it's good at what it does, but it seems to do the same thing as any number of services. For example, I see a lot of people talk about it for static sites. But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. What does Netlif…
> But you get free static sites through GitHub GitHub doesn't support a build process, right? So you would have to do that yourself and commit that. > nearly free static sites on Amazon S3 You'll have to manage the build and deploy here yourself then. Netlify is great because its easy, and free (if you're under their bandwidth cap). They have really cool features like automatically deploying a preview environment for…
GitLab does support free static websites and a build process, see https://about.gitlab.com/product/pages/
Re: Netlify Dev
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advanced CDNed wordpress from your github source.
wait you can run wordpress on netlify? That would be so useful
No you cant run wordpress directly on netlify since it requires a server with php and mysql. But you can use a plugin that creates a static version of your wordpress site and host that on netlify. Another approach is doing a headless wordpress setup, where your front end code is on netlify but the wordpress admin and database is on an actual server somewhere else.
Re: Netlify Dev
#175I recently moved my site[0] from WordPress to Netlify Used HUGO and then one of my Post regarding MacBook Thermals was trending on HN, The site had more than 12K visitors. If I had been using WordPress I could only imagine how catastrophic that would be. Though I crossed their 100GB limit. But since this was a rare spike in traffic I feel their free plan is very generous. Netlify+ static site generators is good alter…
With proper caching even a $5 DO droplet would be easily able to handle this load. With caching + cdn you should be able to handle virtually any load. I personally run cloudfront in front of all of my WP sites, even the low traffic ones because the costs are negligible.
Re: Netlify Dev
#176Can anyone explain the elevator pitch of Netlify to me? I know it's become quite popular in the last couple of years and I can't figure out why. I don't doubt that it's good at what it does, but it seems to do the same thing as any number of services. For example, I see a lot of people talk about it for static sites. But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. What does Netlif…
> I just want to understand what its killer features are. It's convenient. It understands a lot of static website generators, runs the build, makes a preview, manages domains, DNS, https via let's encrypt. All in a single package. Nothing in that package is impossible doing by yourself, but it's just well executed.
I wonder if using Netlify's DNS with a subdomain only would work properly if you delegated only the subdomain and not the top level name to Netlify's DNS servers...
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#177With our existing trend of moving everything to the cloud, I wonder why development environments aren't going in the same direction as well. It has so many benefits. I code on my digital ocean server (vim and tmux) and it gives allot of the benefits that netlify mentions like streaming live. If I don't have my computer I can just borrow anyone's computer (or use a public computer in the library) to make quick fixes o…
I do similarly as you except s/DO/codenvy/
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Isn't this something which you can do with Jenkins? Pull code from Github and deploy it on S3 bucket? I learned Jenkins creating the pipeline to AWS in less than a day.
Yes, but here you don't need to manage a Jenkins installation.
Right. But in this system, I'll need to manage Netlify.
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> But you get free static sites through GitHub GitHub doesn't support a build process, right? So you would have to do that yourself and commit that. > nearly free static sites on Amazon S3 You'll have to manage the build and deploy here yourself then. Netlify is great because its easy, and free (if you're under their bandwidth cap). They have really cool features like automatically deploying a preview environment for…
for Amazon S3 i setup the s3, cloudfront & cert manually (should put it in terraform, but it takes just a second). here's a nice article to walk you through that (says it's for hugo, but you could use it for any ssg): https://agop.me/post/https-enabled-portfolio-hugo-s3-cloudfr... then i build and deploy with a bash tool i made called NanoCD: https://github.com/tkjef/NanoCD has lots of helpful options. easy to wrap y…
The point is not that one can/can't do it elsewhere, but Netlify makes it easy. You are less likely to run into that one frustrating problem that takes you hours to solve (like writing a build and deploy tool in bash) - Netlify does it for you.
I've done a static site from Terraform, and I've done it more recently in Netlify - Terraform was exponentially harder, end to end.
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> But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. I've been really happy using Netlify (with Jekyll) for https://www.checkbot.io/ - I didn't have to think about server admin at all when I got traffic spikes from Hacker News and Product Hunt traffic, and development features make working on the website really straightforward. Features I like: - Git based deploys automatically when…
If you're not aware, you get most of that for free with GitHub pages: https://pages.github.com/ It deploys when you push, is based on Jekyll, and GitHub handles all of the hosting/HTTPS/caching themselves.
Gitlab too does this, along with free unlimited private repos & published static sites; html n Jekyll n all. Just a happy user.