After I discovered Netlify, I'm kind of thinking "why bother". It's free, I just push to my repo and they take care of all the building/publishing/hosting/CDNs, and they're very responsive for support and have high availability. I'm a very happy customer (or rather leech, as I don't pay anything).
I use Firebase with Cloud Functions for form handling and other data related tasks (like caching API calls). I'm loving the integration between the two.
Firebase looks really neat but it’s a shame you can’t modify the strict-transport-security header.
I have a preloaded domain that would no longer be eligible (Chrome would keep it around for now, Firefox and their list consumers would prune my entry) for the HSTS Preload list if I were to use Firebase due to lack of ability to include the includesubdomains and preload tokens. :/
I totally agree. I just started hosting all of my static sites on Netlify, and it's so much better than the custom deploy script I had written. I registered a domain with Namecheap, and was hosting a simple index.html on Netlify within 5 minutes (including SSL.)
I am a recent convert to Netlify and I love it. A++. I have never had SSL on my personal website because doing so is such a hassle; not only does everything Just Work, but getting that set up was trivial.
I have a shell script in my Jekyll code that does an s3 sync and invalidates the Cloudfront stuff. Why do the extra step with a Lambda script that also needs maintained?
Please know that GitLab also comes with GitLab Pages. That being said if you're comfortable using a SaaS service Netlify does have a smoother user experience.
Checking my monitoring logs I have 26 minutes of downtime attributable to Netlify since 03 March 2017. That's about 99.994% uptime.
If I attribute every single outage. That is 43 minutes since 03 March 2017, though some of those were not Netlify errors, but even so, if we are uncharitable/inaccurate and attribute them to Netlify that works out to 99.98% uptime.
Not bad for a free service.
They're also very transparent about service issues:
And support is very responsive. I recently talked to them about deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for instance, or providing the option to force TLS 1.2 if users desired. They were quick to respond and helpful.
So if you are seeing unusual issues, get in touch with them, even if you're a free user they'll still talk to you.
Another happy Netlify customer here. I work as a web dev so not only do I run several of my own sites there but I manage production clients' websites on Netlify as well. Couldn't be more pleased with the service!
Yeah, it's pretty good, and they give you free concatenation of assets. Not really necessary with HTTP2, but it's nice that I don't have to bother configuring my site generator with webpack.
