[JonLim]

Guess it's having connectivity issues?

Haven't read the post yet, but any advantages to using Gitlab Pages and Cloudflare with Hugo over using Netlify?

My personal blog[0] is Hugo + Netlify, and it's been a pretty great experience, so I'm always curious about alternatives! (I'm not a fan of the Netlify CMS though.)

[0] https://jonlim.ca/

[jvns]

the main advantage for me is that Cloudflare's free tier has no bandwidth limit. Netlify's free tier has a 100GB/month limit (https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/02/26/netlify-and-bandwidt...). I put Cloudflare in front of my Netlify site because of that.

[JonLim]

Ah, you know for some reason I was thinking Cloudflare was also doing some hosting, and now I realize I shouldn't make comments on things without having consumed a coffee to start the day.

I also have Cloudflare in front of my site, but that was there before I made the switch, and it's great!

[jopsen]

What are your odds of hitting 100GB/month

Assuming you're just hosting your personal blog?

[jvns]

I used about 350GB in the last month according to Cloudflare (over about 3.5 million requests), probably because I serve a lot of 5-10MB PDFs. Being able to not worry about bandwidth fees for a medium sized personal site is really amazing.

[Gys]

Or instead spend some time to optimize your website a little (like not hosting yourself standard stuff like jquery, Bootstrap and such, compress images, etc). So you can serve 10s of 1000s visitors without hitting a 100 GB free tier ;-)

[detaro]

You're responding to someone running one of the more well-known developer blogs and hosting PDFs, it's not exactly surprising she might need a bit more bandwidth.

[doliveira]

That does not follow, though. It's not like people are generally optimizing their bundle sizes when they are in services where that costs money like AWS or there's a quota like Netlify.

Not having a limit liberates you to deliver other types of content and you have something less to worry about. It does not imply not worrying about optimizing your users' experience

[tkainrad]

One advantage with GitLab Pages is that you don't even need any other service. You have everything in one (free) place (repository, CI/CD, static site hosting, ...). Cloudflare is already only for convenience. Page speed for a static site should be fine also without it. I use Cloudflare mainly for simplifying HTTPS setup and page forwarding rules.