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HexoPress vs Netlify: What are the differences?
What is HexoPress? A blog that syncs with your Google Docs. HexoPress is a web layer that authenticates the user with google, takes their blog posts from a folder in their google drive, generate a static blog out of it and serves them at a URL.
What is Netlify? 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.
HexoPress and Netlify can be primarily classified as "Static Web Hosting" tools.
HexoPress is an open source tool with 97 GitHub stars and 5 GitHub forks. Here's a link to HexoPress's open source repository on GitHub.
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 HexoPress
Pros of Netlify
- Easy deploy47
- 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
- Easy to use and great support4
- Analytics4
- Great loop-in material on a blog4
- Custom domains support3
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments3
- Great drag and drop functionality3
- Canary Releases (Split Tests)1
- Supports static site generators1
- Tech oriented support1
- Django0
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Cons of HexoPress
Cons of Netlify
- It's expensive7
- Bandwidth limitation1