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Howie Zhao
Full Stack Engineer at yintrust · | 7 upvotes · 199.4K views
We use Netlify to host static websites.
The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:
- Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
- With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public
In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.
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Pros of Netlify
Pros of Fastly
- Real-time updates28
- Fastest CDN26
- Powerful API22
- Great support20
- Great customer support14
- Instant Purging7
- Custom VCL7
- Good pricing6
- Tag-based Purging6
- HTTP/2 Support5
- Speed & functionality4
- Image processing on demande (Fastly IO)4
- Best CDN4
Pros of Netlify
- Easy deploy45
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments43
- Free SSL support22
- Super simple deploys22
- Easy Setup and Continous deployments15
- Faster than any other option in the market10
- Free plan for personal websites10
- Deploy previews8
- Free Open Source (Pro) plan6
- Great loop-in material on a blog4
- Analytics4
- Easy to use and great support4
- Great drag and drop functionality3
- Custom domains support3
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments3
- Tech oriented support1
- Supports static site generators1
- Canary Releases (Split Tests)1
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Cons of Fastly
Cons of Netlify
Cons of Fastly
- Minimum $50/mo spend1
Cons of Netlify
- It's expensive7
- Bandwidth limitation1
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What is Fastly?
Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.
What is Netlify?
Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.
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