Is Netlify a good choice for hosting a personal site?
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- bainbridge
Is Netlify a good choice for hosting a personal site?
Or github?
I have my own html/css
- evilpeacock0
Maybe; If you like Netlify's build setup and features then I'd suggest it over Github. Netlify is hosting with a pretty unique feature set and Github is all about development repos with hosting bolted-on.
For years I used Netlify's free tier for testing a bunch of things like 11ty forks, while also running a handful of static hand-coded sites. It was all fine, but I moved my stuff elsewhere when Netlify raised their prices and started to downplay/reduce the free tier (which is for "non-commercial" things BTW).
Like most things it depends on what you need for whatever you're building; Repos or a more hosting-centric model? I'd at least give Netlify a test drive and check it out.
- I'd take a steaming pile of poop with maggots on it over Github. I can't believe it still exists.CyBrainX
- Github has been a laughing stock on social media multiple times lately for good reason; Ironically they're one of my motion design/video editing clients too.evilpeacock
- skinny_puppy0
I use Netlify to host for my blog for free, it's a static site generated by Hugo. I've also been able to direct a domain to it and use https all on the free account. Granted I haven't touched it in a year and half so things might have changed but I would recommend it if nothing has changed.
- That said my blog currently seems to be down. So maybe not all is well. I shall have to investigate now.skinny_puppy
- Could be a Hugo security issue or patch that went sideways; I still get lots of warnings from my Netlify experiments on those.evilpeacock