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13 reasons why you should be using Netlify

Ogurinka Benjamin on November 11, 2019

Few months ago, I wanted a quick, fast and easy way to showcase a small project I worked on using Javascript and shared hosting seemed like too muc...
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Andre Vasconcelos

Yeah, I hear ya. I used Netlify on a project once and it was incredibly easy and made everything work great, it made me feel dirty that I got to use something so good for free.

If I ever have a project that warrants using their fancier features I'll be sure to become a paying member

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C.S. Rhymes

I’ve been thinking about swapping from Digital Ocean droplet to netlify. I had big intentions when I got the droplet but only ended up running a static site on it. Thanks for listing out it’s features. I will definitely try it out.

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Abdullah Khan • Edited

A little late to the party but, I’m in the same boat as you. Did you end up switching to Netlify? If so, is there anything you miss about your Digital Ocean setup that isn’t available with Netlify? Do you recommend switching over?

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C.S. Rhymes

Yes I switched to Netlify. It’s for a Jekyll site so the free plan is great for me and saves a few dollars each month. The push to deploy was very easy to configure.

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Abdullah Khan

That's great, thanks for the reply!

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Rohan Sawant

Ha! Catchy title love it!

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Ogurinka Benjamin

This guy gets it😼😁

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Douglas Fugazi

I use netlify with stackbit.com, and I love it.

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Major Hoffman

You can also run a page for a private GitHub repo!

Of course, all pages are accessible if you know the structure, but heyyyy

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Njeri Cooper

I used this method too. No regrets. 🔥🔥

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MartinIvnako

Netlify is free for "personal projects, hobby sites, or experiments". And if i want use free version, netlify can give me all what i need. But in netlify pro (on netlify page price) is writen "building pilot projects or small sites". So, if i want use netlify for some client business, and free version is enought for production web, can use free version netlify or not?

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Bayu Angora

I use Netlify too. But the big downside for now is only about unsupported DNSSEC.

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Emmanuel Raymond

Great article. Netlify is simply awesome :)

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Deborah Emeni

This is a great Article 👍❤️ Thanks to you, I have a better understanding of Nertify.
I'll have to share this article with my community.

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Ogurinka Benjamin

I'm glad you liked it😩😁

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Asit Debata

Hey, Thank you for this amazing fact about netify. I'm currently headed for building my own Portfolio site and want to deploy it on netify. Is it going to be free or I have to pay some amount.