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by jdsalaro 1958 days ago
I've evaluated Netlify for my blog at https://jdsalaro.com and I'd advise against that unless you're missing a CMS on your static site generator. Other than that I personally felt it didn't bring much to the table. I do admit that their CMS is slick, but it wasn't really a feature I needed.

Of course I'm not sure what other people are using them for, but in my case GitLab/GitHub covered all my bases pretty well since I wasn't looking for a pelican/hugo CMS and you still host somewhere else (not Netlify).
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linkdd 1958 days ago
Github's main business is not Github Pages or be a CDN.

Netlify's main business is.

Netlify also provides deployment previews for commits and PRs, and a complete CI/CD pipeline that you would have to implement yourself with Github Actions or something else.

The CMS isn't what I need either, but there is so much more than just hosting.

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hydroxideOH- 1957 days ago
Netlify also gives a healthy free tier of serverless functions if you need them.

They can also manage your domain/ssl which is nice so I can manage everything related to my site on Netlify.

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