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May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012

May not be widely known, but a startup named Divshot launched what feels to me now like an identical service to Netlify, just a few years earlier. Existed ~2012-2015. They were acquired by Google and their product was converted into Firebase Hosting. I haven't tried it, though: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/ https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

brianfryer 8y ago
I loved using Divshot, and was sad when their service was shuttered. I’ve been using Netlify ever since, though, and have launched 20+ web projects in the past 18 months. Easily my favorite hosting solution I’ve ever used.
- deleted 8y ago
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- lappet 8y ago
  Is it free for personal projects?
  - hokumguru 8y ago
    It’s just free for most projects. You pay for lambdas and forms, etc.
mbleigh 8y ago
Founder of Divshot here, and engineering manager of the Firebase Hosting team. Thanks for the shoutout! :)
- MrLeap 8y ago
  Your co-founder is one of my favorite people, we were good friends in high-school. I'm super proud of you guys whenever I see divshot mentioned. :)
- sjroot 8y ago
  I love Firebase Hosting probably just as much as Netlify. Even more if you consider the various services besides hosting that Firebase offers. Thank you for making a great product! And if you're hiring, my email is in my profile :D
sergiotapia 8y ago
I used to be a Divshot customer - they were fantastic.
bufferoverflow 8y ago
I thought Firebase was Firebase since 2011, and got bought by Google in 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase
- gkoberger 8y ago
  Divshot is a separate product, that became a Firebase feature.
perplamps 8y ago
I use Firebase hosting for a static site that gets between 100-400gb of traffic per month, and it works out a bit cheaper than Netlify ($15-$50/m vs. flat $45/m). I hardly ever use their web interface and just deal with their one line CLI. My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two. That's why I'd be reluctant to use it for DB and auth stuff. I narrowly avoided jumping into Parse back in the day before that was shuttered so I'm wary.
- tinyvm 8y ago
  > My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two That's interesting , why Firebase would go away ? It's just back end on top of GCloud. Actually , everytime you do something in Firebase , it create a ressources in your GCloud account. Firebase may not be super popular for SaaS but for Mobile , it's the king and by far , you can use it with no doubt.
  - thealfreds 8y ago
    I think most of the concern comes from Google shutting down services and apis pretty regularly. I wouldn't use it for large projects or long term projects because of how differently you need to write things to effectively work with it.
- xrd 8y ago
  It seems like more and more services are being moved under the Firebase umbrella (Crashlytics for example), signalling Google is committed long term to Firebase. It is a considerable form of cloud lock-in if you get your data into Firebase (firestore) and a competitive advantage over AWS, so there is good reason to believe this is long term strategy as well.
avip 8y ago
Firebase is just awesome. I have deployed several minor apps on the platform. With out-of-the-box auth management and the db, I can have a static client-side only app that is relatively featured. I used to actually "code server side" to manage data, and that seems so redundant now with firebase. Thanks!
TheAceOfHearts 8y ago
I was gonna come here to bring this up as well. FYI to any readers: Firebase Hosting has nothing to do with the other Firebase stuff. In fact, I personally dislike their live database quite a bit. If you want to host a simple static site with HTTPS, Firebase Hosting really makes it incredibly easy. My only complaint is that they don't let you view access logs. Here's the official response [0] from the Firebase team as to why that's the case. Once you have to do anything more complex I think it's better to use a different service. If you don't want to host anything yourself I've heard positive things about Zeit [1], although I haven't personally used it. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29669725/can-i-access-w3c-style-logs-when-using-firebase-hosting https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29669725/can-i-access-w3... [1] https://zeit.co/ https://zeit.co/
- mbleigh 8y ago
  FWIW providing access logs is something we're exploring (though it's still a ways out). I certainly hope that you don't feel the need to move to something else when your application scales / gets more complex -- our whole mission is to make it so you don't have to. Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter (@mbleigh) if you have specific questions/concerns.

brianfryer 8y ago

I loved using Divshot, and was sad when their service was shuttered. I’ve been using Netlify ever since, though, and have launched 20+ web projects in the past 18 months. Easily my favorite hosting solution I’ve ever used.

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lappet 8y ago
Is it free for personal projects?
- hokumguru 8y ago
  It’s just free for most projects. You pay for lambdas and forms, etc.

mbleigh 8y ago

Founder of Divshot here, and engineering manager of the Firebase Hosting team. Thanks for the shoutout! :)

MrLeap 8y ago
Your co-founder is one of my favorite people, we were good friends in high-school. I'm super proud of you guys whenever I see divshot mentioned. :)
sjroot 8y ago
I love Firebase Hosting probably just as much as Netlify. Even more if you consider the various services besides hosting that Firebase offers. Thank you for making a great product! And if you're hiring, my email is in my profile :D

sergiotapia 8y ago

I used to be a Divshot customer - they were fantastic.

bufferoverflow 8y ago

I thought Firebase was Firebase since 2011, and got bought by Google in 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebase

gkoberger 8y ago
Divshot is a separate product, that became a Firebase feature.

perplamps 8y ago

I use Firebase hosting for a static site that gets between 100-400gb of traffic per month, and it works out a bit cheaper than Netlify ($15-$50/m vs. flat $45/m). I hardly ever use their web interface and just deal with their one line CLI. My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two. That's why I'd be reluctant to use it for DB and auth stuff. I narrowly avoided jumping into Parse back in the day before that was shuttered so I'm wary.

tinyvm 8y ago
> My biggest concern with Firebase is if it's still going to be around in a year or two That's interesting , why Firebase would go away ? It's just back end on top of GCloud. Actually , everytime you do something in Firebase , it create a ressources in your GCloud account. Firebase may not be super popular for SaaS but for Mobile , it's the king and by far , you can use it with no doubt.
- thealfreds 8y ago
  I think most of the concern comes from Google shutting down services and apis pretty regularly. I wouldn't use it for large projects or long term projects because of how differently you need to write things to effectively work with it.
xrd 8y ago
It seems like more and more services are being moved under the Firebase umbrella (Crashlytics for example), signalling Google is committed long term to Firebase. It is a considerable form of cloud lock-in if you get your data into Firebase (firestore) and a competitive advantage over AWS, so there is good reason to believe this is long term strategy as well.

avip 8y ago

Firebase is just awesome. I have deployed several minor apps on the platform. With out-of-the-box auth management and the db, I can have a static client-side only app that is relatively featured. I used to actually "code server side" to manage data, and that seems so redundant now with firebase. Thanks!

TheAceOfHearts 8y ago

I was gonna come here to bring this up as well. FYI to any readers: Firebase Hosting has nothing to do with the other Firebase stuff. In fact, I personally dislike their live database quite a bit. If you want to host a simple static site with HTTPS, Firebase Hosting really makes it incredibly easy. My only complaint is that they don't let you view access logs. Here's the official response [0] from the Firebase team as to why that's the case. Once you have to do anything more complex I think it's better to use a different service. If you don't want to host anything yourself I've heard positive things about Zeit [1], although I haven't personally used it. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29669725/can-i-access-w3c-style-logs-when-using-firebase-hosting https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29669725/can-i-access-w3... [1] https://zeit.co/ https://zeit.co/

mbleigh 8y ago
FWIW providing access logs is something we're exploring (though it's still a ways out). I certainly hope that you don't feel the need to move to something else when your application scales / gets more complex -- our whole mission is to make it so you don't have to. Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter (@mbleigh) if you have specific questions/concerns.