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Tell HN: Netlify is experiencing degraded performance

13 points by blackbrokkoli 5y ago

Just got some really confusing errors on a deployed frontend, got me to realize that Netlify seems to be having issues. Status page (https://www.netlifystatus.com/) seems up to date.

akvadrako 5y ago
I've been seeing this too for about an hour. LFS over git, builds and their large media service are not working.
johtso 5y ago
Does make me think about adding some level of redundancy to my site, failover at the DNS level perhaps. Does anyone have an approach they'd recommend? Cloundflare perhaps? All my media is served by cloudinary, so it should be easy to have the site served in more than one place and have the only single point of failure be the DNS server.
- booi 5y ago
  wouldn't your single point of failure be.. cloudinary?
colesantiago 5y ago
Netlify seems like a scam, why not use Cloudflare instead?
- shinryuu 5y ago
  lately it seems like the word "scam" is an overused word. Netlify provides a service, some think that service is valuable, ergo netlify is not a scam.
  - colesantiago 5y ago
    What service does it offer that Cloudflare doesn't offer? Last time I checked Cloudflare has almost everything Netlify offers.
    - aprdm 5y ago
      So can you only have 1 company per service that exists?
      - colesantiago 5y ago
        How can you argue with free on Cloudflare? Almost everything there that Netlify offers is free.
        selbyk 5y ago
        Because free almost never pays the bills and eventually go away Ironic, that bait and switching of free until it's not sustainable could actually be considered a scam instead of a service with a sustainable fee
        colesantiago 5y ago
        Cloudflare has been free from the beginning to IPO, executing well. No issues. Netlify can't afford to be free using VC money. Not sustainable.
        aprdm 5y ago
        They make money out of paid clients, this business model of having a few big clients paying for the free part, which is basically their marketing, isn't exactly new
        colesantiago 5y ago
        Point still stands and Cloudflare is in a solid place to do this as I said from day 0. Vercel on the other hand just announced pricing changes that they are removing their free plan this week. So I imagine those who were on Vercel's free plan will migrate to CF.

13 points by blackbrokkoli 5y ago

Just got some really confusing errors on a deployed frontend, got me to realize that Netlify seems to be having issues. Status page (https://www.netlifystatus.com/) seems up to date.

akvadrako 5y ago

I've been seeing this too for about an hour. LFS over git, builds and their large media service are not working.

johtso 5y ago

Does make me think about adding some level of redundancy to my site, failover at the DNS level perhaps. Does anyone have an approach they'd recommend? Cloundflare perhaps? All my media is served by cloudinary, so it should be easy to have the site served in more than one place and have the only single point of failure be the DNS server.

booi 5y ago
wouldn't your single point of failure be.. cloudinary?

colesantiago 5y ago

Netlify seems like a scam, why not use Cloudflare instead?

shinryuu 5y ago
lately it seems like the word "scam" is an overused word. Netlify provides a service, some think that service is valuable, ergo netlify is not a scam.
- colesantiago 5y ago
  What service does it offer that Cloudflare doesn't offer? Last time I checked Cloudflare has almost everything Netlify offers.
  - aprdm 5y ago
    So can you only have 1 company per service that exists?
    - colesantiago 5y ago
      How can you argue with free on Cloudflare? Almost everything there that Netlify offers is free.
      - selbyk 5y ago
        Because free almost never pays the bills and eventually go away Ironic, that bait and switching of free until it's not sustainable could actually be considered a scam instead of a service with a sustainable fee
        colesantiago 5y ago
        Cloudflare has been free from the beginning to IPO, executing well. No issues. Netlify can't afford to be free using VC money. Not sustainable.
        aprdm 5y ago
        They make money out of paid clients, this business model of having a few big clients paying for the free part, which is basically their marketing, isn't exactly new
        colesantiago 5y ago
        Point still stands and Cloudflare is in a solid place to do this as I said from day 0. Vercel on the other hand just announced pricing changes that they are removing their free plan this week. So I imagine those who were on Vercel's free plan will migrate to CF.