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Check out https://www.netlify.com https://www.netlify.com (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder). It's like GitHub pages on steroids and includes free Let's Encrypt ba

by bobfunk 10y ago

Check out https://www.netlify.com https://www.netlify.com (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder). It's like GitHub pages on steroids and includes free Let's Encrypt based SSL for custom domains, can run builds from your GitHub repo with any static site generator, supports rewrite/redirect rules/proxying/form processing/password protection and much more...

philtar 10y ago
I consider your pricing to be completely out of touch with reality.
- lucaspiller 10y ago
  What sort of price would you consider good for static site hosting? GitHub provide theirs for free as it's a loss-leader, where as this is ther main business.
  - HappyTypist 10y ago
    $4 a month (billed monthly) for 5 GB storage. Gotta be cheaper than digital ocean.
    - reacweb 10y ago
      I love my hosting (https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/#pricing_baremetal https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/#pricing_baremetal): 3.6 € for 50 GB and total freedom.
  - philtar 10y ago
    Something not based on made up metrics like domain names. I'm actually using up space, bandwidth and CI time. Charge me on that.
fenaer 10y ago
Your pricing model is extraordinarily expensive.
jayrox 10y ago
I agree with the others. You can host a dynamic site on digitalocean for half the cost.
- MichaelGG 10y ago
  DO isn't in the same market as this, at least going off their websites. DO means doing all the work yourself. Netlify handles everything. I don't think the pricing is too high. If anything, the high end is too low. It's not like they're aiming at personal sites, are they? And for a company, $39 is nothing -- plans should probably start there. (Seriously, who wants to service a customer for $7 a month?) FWIW I've never seen or heard of Netlify before in my life.
  - Spivak 10y ago
    I think they could be much improved by allowing all the features to be modified with sliders and checkboxes with the Free/Advanced/Pro presented as presets.
    - MichaelGG 10y ago
      Does that actually work? I know it's appealing to tech types, but it's confusing to people in general. They probably are better off going unlimited on a few things if they can. People are incredibly weird about usage-based pricing. Plus it creates barriers by giving people something to bikeshed over before buying. In fact, I'd wager they're probably better off going to Unlimited on a few more things where they can, and only really focusing on the things that separate high paying customers from smaller ones.
  - detaro 10y ago
    They are advertising in a thread about GitHub pages. I'd expect private pages/unpaid open-source projects are the vast majority of users of GitHub pages.
  - mryan 10y ago
    You raise an interesting point. The prices seem too high for some commenters. They are presumably capable of doing this themselves on a DO box so they do not think it is valuable enough to justify that price. However, one of the features of their highest price ($39/month) plan is that you can use 100 custom domains. If you have 100 domains hosted on Route 53 you will be paying over $50/month for domains, at which point $39/month for the service which actually hosts your static site is entirely negligible. I am curious how many people fall in to that bucket though - it seems more likely that people will run multiple sites with few custom domains, rather than a single site with 100 custom domains. I am planning to offer some of Netlify's services in a product I am currently building. I'm still working on the pricing model but it is likely to be based on builds per month and bandwidth/storage, rather than the actual number of sites. My cost driver is not 'how many domain names are configured in my HTTP-routing layer', but rather 'how much pressure is each site putting on my build and web servers'.
Sephr 10y ago
> It's like GitHub pages So it's free and doesn't have quota buckets? Checks it out. This is nothing like GitHub pages… It costs money and has quota buckets

by bobfunk 10y ago

philtar 10y ago

I consider your pricing to be completely out of touch with reality.

lucaspiller 10y ago
What sort of price would you consider good for static site hosting? GitHub provide theirs for free as it's a loss-leader, where as this is ther main business.
- HappyTypist 10y ago
  $4 a month (billed monthly) for 5 GB storage. Gotta be cheaper than digital ocean.
  - reacweb 10y ago
    I love my hosting (https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/#pricing_baremetal https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/#pricing_baremetal): 3.6 € for 50 GB and total freedom.
- philtar 10y ago
  Something not based on made up metrics like domain names. I'm actually using up space, bandwidth and CI time. Charge me on that.

fenaer 10y ago

Your pricing model is extraordinarily expensive.

jayrox 10y ago

I agree with the others. You can host a dynamic site on digitalocean for half the cost.

MichaelGG 10y ago
DO isn't in the same market as this, at least going off their websites. DO means doing all the work yourself. Netlify handles everything. I don't think the pricing is too high. If anything, the high end is too low. It's not like they're aiming at personal sites, are they? And for a company, $39 is nothing -- plans should probably start there. (Seriously, who wants to service a customer for $7 a month?) FWIW I've never seen or heard of Netlify before in my life.
- Spivak 10y ago
  I think they could be much improved by allowing all the features to be modified with sliders and checkboxes with the Free/Advanced/Pro presented as presets.
  - MichaelGG 10y ago
    Does that actually work? I know it's appealing to tech types, but it's confusing to people in general. They probably are better off going unlimited on a few things if they can. People are incredibly weird about usage-based pricing. Plus it creates barriers by giving people something to bikeshed over before buying. In fact, I'd wager they're probably better off going to Unlimited on a few more things where they can, and only really focusing on the things that separate high paying customers from smaller ones.
- detaro 10y ago
  They are advertising in a thread about GitHub pages. I'd expect private pages/unpaid open-source projects are the vast majority of users of GitHub pages.
- mryan 10y ago
  You raise an interesting point. The prices seem too high for some commenters. They are presumably capable of doing this themselves on a DO box so they do not think it is valuable enough to justify that price. However, one of the features of their highest price ($39/month) plan is that you can use 100 custom domains. If you have 100 domains hosted on Route 53 you will be paying over $50/month for domains, at which point $39/month for the service which actually hosts your static site is entirely negligible. I am curious how many people fall in to that bucket though - it seems more likely that people will run multiple sites with few custom domains, rather than a single site with 100 custom domains. I am planning to offer some of Netlify's services in a product I am currently building. I'm still working on the pricing model but it is likely to be based on builds per month and bandwidth/storage, rather than the actual number of sites. My cost driver is not 'how many domain names are configured in my HTTP-routing layer', but rather 'how much pressure is each site putting on my build and web servers'.

Sephr 10y ago

> It's like GitHub pages So it's free and doesn't have quota buckets? Checks it out. This is nothing like GitHub pages… It costs money and has quota buckets