Netlify
Infrastructure
static site hosting
SHOW HN2015
116points
41comments
#209of 2,565 in 2015
Top 9%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Design: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast, simple continuous deployment from GitHub and drag-and-drop deploys.
From 2 comments
Netlify is awesome--far and away the best option for static content that I've found, and very developer-focused. There's a big list of pleasant surprises as you work with their…
toddmorey on HNWe have been using the Netlify service for the past few months (when it was just BitBalloon) and I must say it has been excellent. We have a handful of sites on the platform. All…
ryanbennick on HN
Responsive support and good trust with customers.
From 2 comments
I work at a digital agency (http://carrot.is/, hosted on Netlify), and Netlify has become our go to hosting solution for all our static projects. Their API is killer, but what…
joshrowley on HNWe have been using the Netlify service for the past few months (when it was just BitBalloon) and I must say it has been excellent. We have a handful of sites on the platform. All…
ryanbennick on HN
Useful features like redirects, custom headers and API proxying.
From 1 comment
Netlify is awesome--far and away the best option for static content that I've found, and very developer-focused. There's a big list of pleasant surprises as you work with their…
toddmorey on HN
Objections
Pricing is too high for small free-tier-like sites without branding.
From 2 comments
This looks great, and I would like to use it, but the pricing structure is frustrating. I help maintain a couple of static websites for small businesses run by friends. Since…
gmisra on HNThat was my thought too. Looks great though, and I intend to load up a site to try it out.
fineline on HN
Unclear how it differs from GitHub Pages, S3 and Cloudflare setups.
From 2 comments
Thanks for sharing these points, from a quick look at the site I couldn't figure out differences with GitHub pages. Do you know how is the CDN working across the planet? HTTPS &…
ecesena on HNHow is this different from GitHub hosted source(Free), compiled by TravisCI (Free), hosted in S3($15/year), secured byand fronted by CloudFlare (Free). This is my setup (minus…
brooksgarrett on HN
Build tools such as yuicompressor were not supported.
From 1 comment
Looks quite cool but unfortunately doesn't work for my site right now since I use yuicompressor[0] [0] https://github.com/mjackson/yuicompressor
michaelmior on HN
Requests
Open source the stack or self-host option.
From 2 comments
How much of the stack will be open source? In the week after FoundationDB ceased to exist, there's still that nagging question of what happens when you guys get acquired. If the…
fineline on HNI suppose technically the UI is already available given they give you the html/css/js in your browser (though perhaps not for redistribution, although this is a bit of thorny…
e12e on HN
Better content editing for non-technical editors.
From 2 comments
Very interested in this - and thanks for the detailed write-up on your blog on how to execute the Netlify/Contentful setup. One question: a lot of pages I work on are of the…
inthewoods on HNA bit too early to drop a lot of details in public, but feel free to write me (mathias@netlify.com) and I'll be happy to share more details. We want to solve the issue of having…
bobfunk on HN
Improve Firefox folder upload experience.
From 2 comments
Hey there, I loved the service!! Want to kindly leave my feedback: I tried to upload using Firefox, and found that there are some friction with the uploads.. 1. was unable to…
_lce0 on HNSorry about that, should definitively improve the UI for Firefox based drag'n drop deploys. Chrome is currently the only browser that supports dragging a whole folder directly…
bobfunk on HN
Questions
Where the proxies run and how the CDN works globally.
From 2 comments
>ou can configure proxying so that external API endpoints appear to the browser to be coming from the same domain Where is the proxy server running?
walterbell on HNThanks for sharing these points, from a quick look at the site I couldn't figure out differences with GitHub pages. Do you know how is the CDN working across the planet? HTTPS &…
ecesena on HN
How it works with Angular single page apps and SEO.
From 1 comment
Any idea how Netlify would work with an Angular single page app? I had a site hosted on S3 and ran into SEO problems because I could only configure S3 to do a redirect instead of…
devNoise on HN
Alternatives named
GitHub Pages
From 1 comment
Thanks for sharing these points, from a quick look at the site I couldn't figure out differences with GitHub pages. Do you know how is the CDN working across the planet? HTTPS &…
ecesena on HN
Amazon S3 with Travis CI
From 1 comment
How is this different from GitHub hosted source(Free), compiled by TravisCI (Free), hosted in S3($15/year), secured byand fronted by CloudFlare (Free). This is my setup (minus…
brooksgarrett on HN
Surge.sh
From 1 comment
Neat. I recently saw a similar service: surge.sh -- but netlify seems to be a bit more robust on the feature set. Good luck!
jordanlev on HN
Divshot
From 1 comment
This looks great. Definitely going to give this a test run this weekend. A few questions: * What are the advantages of having the build on Netlify's end vs. the approach used in…
Zombieball on HN
CloudFlare
From 1 comment
How is this different from GitHub hosted source(Free), compiled by TravisCI (Free), hosted in S3($15/year), secured byand fronted by CloudFlare (Free). This is my setup (minus…
brooksgarrett on HN