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Between Netlify, Vercel and bigger providers like Cloudflare and AWS, there are plenty of companies trying to own static websites. After R2, I have a feeling C

Between Netlify, Vercel and bigger providers like Cloudflare and AWS, there are plenty of companies trying to own static websites. After R2, I have a feeling Cloudflare will come up with a competitor soon and swallow the entire market.

kevinak 5y ago
Looks like they just did, some 40 minutes ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-goes-full-stack/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-goes-full-stack...
- kmf 5y ago
  Pages has actually been GA since April of this year[1] - since then, we've released support for deploy hooks, redirect/custom header files, GitLab support, and as you mentioned above, a Workers function integration. We have a really excellent team building Pages, and we still think there's a lot of unexplored territory around Pages/Jamstack and how it interacts with serverless and edge functions. Exciting times! [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-ga/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-ga/
user3113 5y ago
there is one more similar product https://www.stormkit.io/ https://www.stormkit.io/ .They seem to be smaller bootstrapped company
listless 5y ago
I’m with you here. CloudFlare’s speed and downright mastery of the CDN is miles ahead of everyone else (I work for one of the clouds), their workers are insanely good and the speed at which they add genuinely brilliant features is astonishing. They are a full cloud now. Netlify and Vercel are outstanding solutions. But they are not a cloud and I don’t see viability beyond acquisition. Lots of developers using free stuff is great, but only if you can monetize it. Cloudflare has been around a long time, has proven they can monetize and seem to be the emerging “developer cloud” leader. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/financials/ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/financials/
santa_boy 5y ago
Any idea which is the cheapest place to host very light very low traffic static sites ('000s)? I liked Vercel but their account mgmt exec told me that it will cost '000s of $ p.m. I'm going for a personal VM right now. I'm assuming it can easily host lots of sites. Not sure but I may be in for lots of surprises if the scaling ever happens. Would be happy to know from more any experienced folks.
- jerrygoyal 5y ago
  I'm not sure why vercel mgmt told you that but I'm running few (low traffic) production sites on vercel and it's free of cost.
- pwdisswordfish9 5y ago
  The VPS approach is not a bad one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614741

kevinak 5y ago

Looks like they just did, some 40 minutes ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-goes-full-stack/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-goes-full-stack...

kmf 5y ago
Pages has actually been GA since April of this year[1] - since then, we've released support for deploy hooks, redirect/custom header files, GitLab support, and as you mentioned above, a Workers function integration. We have a really excellent team building Pages, and we still think there's a lot of unexplored territory around Pages/Jamstack and how it interacts with serverless and edge functions. Exciting times! [1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-ga/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-ga/

user3113 5y ago

there is one more similar product https://www.stormkit.io/ https://www.stormkit.io/ .They seem to be smaller bootstrapped company

listless 5y ago

I’m with you here. CloudFlare’s speed and downright mastery of the CDN is miles ahead of everyone else (I work for one of the clouds), their workers are insanely good and the speed at which they add genuinely brilliant features is astonishing. They are a full cloud now. Netlify and Vercel are outstanding solutions. But they are not a cloud and I don’t see viability beyond acquisition. Lots of developers using free stuff is great, but only if you can monetize it. Cloudflare has been around a long time, has proven they can monetize and seem to be the emerging “developer cloud” leader. https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/financials/ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NET/financials/

santa_boy 5y ago

Any idea which is the cheapest place to host very light very low traffic static sites ('000s)? I liked Vercel but their account mgmt exec told me that it will cost '000s of $ p.m. I'm going for a personal VM right now. I'm assuming it can easily host lots of sites. Not sure but I may be in for lots of surprises if the scaling ever happens. Would be happy to know from more any experienced folks.

jerrygoyal 5y ago
I'm not sure why vercel mgmt told you that but I'm running few (low traffic) production sites on vercel and it's free of cost.
pwdisswordfish9 5y ago
The VPS approach is not a bad one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614741 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21614741