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Always pleased to see more alternatives to Netlify/Vercel. I love how easy Netlify makes it to deploy things, but I don't really understand their pricing.

I recently built a pretty basic static webapp that would have racked up around £100 in bandwidth charges (~0.5TB) in the first 24 hours on Netlify. I stuck it on BunnyCDN instead after I realised this and it ended up costing around £3. The five or so minutes I save manually running and uploading the build each time is not worth many hundreds of pounds a month.

Netlify's bandwidth charges seem excessive, but then Vercel and DO App Platform are comparable, so maybe I'm missing something. I guess CDN companies have an advantage here. I'd be happy to pay Netlify money for all the sites I host that don't use a lot of bandwidth, but they insist in hosting them for free.

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Anyone reselling AWS services wants to price bandwidth above AWS' price, and AWS' bandwidth pricing is high. (E.g. AWS EC2 in us-east-1 to the internet costs up to ~0.09/GB, so your ~0.5 TB would end up at around £33 - although Netlify will obviously have some volume discounts.)

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I haven't dealt with AWS very much, but I suspected that might be the case. Thanks for the figures. I guess the margins on bandwidth must be quite significant for cloud service providers.