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GitLab Pages vs Netlify: What are the differences?
Developers describe GitLab Pages as "Create websites for your GitLab projects, groups, or user account". Host your static websites on GitLab.com for free, or on your own GitLab Enterprise Edition instance. Use any static website generator: Jekyll, Middleman, Hexo, Hugo, Pelican, and more. On the other hand, Netlify is detailed as "Build, deploy and host your static site or app with a drag and drop interface and automatic delpoys from GitHub or Bitbucket". 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.
GitLab Pages and Netlify belong to "Static Web Hosting" category of the tech stack.
Ratio, MailTape, and Flat are some of the popular companies that use Netlify, whereas GitLab Pages is used by Mocco, Caravelo, and Sigfox. Netlify has a broader approval, being mentioned in 86 company stacks & 98 developers stacks; compared to GitLab Pages, which is listed in 15 company stacks and 22 developer stacks.
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.
Pros of GitLab Pages
- Free5
- Integrated build and release pipeline4
- Allows any custom build scripts and plugins2
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 GitLab Pages
- Require Jekyll approach1
- Slow builds0
Cons of Netlify
- It's expensive7
- Bandwidth limitation1
