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by ChristianBach 3901 days ago
Co-founder of netlify here. We're getting hit pretty heavily right now, with links to people asking for what alternatives to divshot exists, and what you need from a hosting service that specializes in static sites and apps.

So thought I'd post here both congratulating James and Divshot, and secondly (of course) tell a bit about our service, and what we think a hosting service for static site should be able to provide.

At netlify we have a multilayered CDN, which makes us faster than anyone else at the moment. At the same time it enables us to have true instant cache invalidation. That means that your changes to a static site is live in 1 second, but only the affected files get invalidated - the rest stays cached. All deploys are atomic, and there's never a chance end users will browse an broken version of your site.

We also do continuous deployment. That means every time you push to git (GitHub, GitLabs, BitBucket or your selfhosted git-repo), we automatically build and deploy the new version of your site. It doesn't matter if you use static site generators or build tools like grunt, gulp, Ember CLI, etc...

Besides this we have a ton of features like API proxying, rewrites and redirect rules, HTTP2, SSL (both SNI and full), staging sites, password protection, DNS hosting, Geo IP based redirect, choose between CLI or drag'n'drop interface, advanced DDOS protection, a full REST API for all features and much more.

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Good luck, looks like your login is down.

GET https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/sites?page=1&per_page=50 401 (Unauthorized)

Olark is returning 403, too.

Not sure what's up with that - Olark's been online all day (I know, it's been busy with the divshot news) and our API has had no issues (again, we've been seeing lots of activity).

The API call you list there is only available with an authorization token, so it's supposed to give a 401 unless you're logged in...

Feel free to ping me directly if you're still having trouble: matt@netlify.com
Sorry about that, corporate proxy weirdness. It's working fine via my phone.