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One marked downside of all of this growth is that Netlify's paid support products have really deteriorated. If you need a support response in less than 48 hours
by kaishiro 5y ago
One marked downside of all of this growth is that Netlify's paid support products have really deteriorated. If you need a support response in less than 48 hours, your only recourse is to saddle up for their full $2000/mth enterprise support plan. Otherwise, a regular paid account has access to email support which generally has ~48 hour turnaround.
This has bit us several times in the past year - generally only when we've hit a wall that we can't reconcile ourselves (redirects failing to properly shadow, custom domains that need to be manually verified/released, SSL certs that fail to auto provision) and require manual intervention from Netlify. Since each support response requires another 48 hour wait we've had tickets take well over a week to reach full resolution.
Don't get me wrong, we're big fans of Netlify, and we're excited to see them succeed in this space - they would also still be my first recommendation for any hobbyist looking to host a static site. But I no longer believe they're a tenable solution for hosting anything client related or critical unless you can afford the 24k/year for an SLA.
I sure do miss the days when we could hop on livechat with Mathias and Chris and have them kick the servers to fix the certbot!