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Excellent application, easy to use and with a great support team
What do you like best about the product?
It is relatively easy to use, it has good documentation and in general, it just works. It's excellent for rapid prototyping and it has a very helpful support team. I usually use it in combination with GitHub and I find this combination to be powerful enough to keep coming back to it. To add custom domains it's a breeze as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price is to high for certain use cases, for example for single sites that need registration. Also, the build minutes metric adds useless complexity to the pricing structure. Also, the Netlify CMS looks like an unfinished product (even for an opensource project).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me to set up simple websites fast, mostly by using the GitHub integration for running static sites built with Gatsby.js. It's a simple workflow that can help lunch products fast.
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Fast and Reliable
What do you like best about the product?
It's free and can be deployed straight from Github. The command line interface makes it easy and fast to use for developers like myself. Another great plus is that I can host many sites via Netlify, and its so fast to deploy another one straight from the command line.
The starter plan is great as one is given all the features and tools needed to realize how powerful the platform can be. The plug-in tools, such as submit site map to google, are priceless for keeping our site known to the users of the internet. Another great tool is the checklinks, and no more 404, which helps keep our site's connections in check so we don't have any broken links as our project gets bigger.
The starter plan is great as one is given all the features and tools needed to realize how powerful the platform can be. The plug-in tools, such as submit site map to google, are priceless for keeping our site known to the users of the internet. Another great tool is the checklinks, and no more 404, which helps keep our site's connections in check so we don't have any broken links as our project gets bigger.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish the free tier was larger, so that we could have longer build times for larger projects. The documentation could be slightly improved, as it was unclear what key was needed to link a build to a site. The docs were using different terms, and that was ambiguous.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving our own checkout flow, email subscription flow, and landing pages. With Netlify we could create our own sandbox and development site for sales funnel, starting from a landing page and ending at a checkout. If the user drops, we have his email and can deploy serverless functions with AWS step functions to re-engage the user.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Get the command line interface and learn it. That's a great way to start.
The community on Github have great examples that you can run through to get a grasp of how implement netlify and interface it with other services.
I'd recommend building sites locally and only pushing them to a Git master branch deployed on Netlify when there is a significant update. That way to don't eat your free build time for small little deployments and developments. If this doesn't make sense to you, there are definitely some tutorials out there on Github and branching.
The community on Github have great examples that you can run through to get a grasp of how implement netlify and interface it with other services.
I'd recommend building sites locally and only pushing them to a Git master branch deployed on Netlify when there is a significant update. That way to don't eat your free build time for small little deployments and developments. If this doesn't make sense to you, there are definitely some tutorials out there on Github and branching.
Redefining the web hosting landscape
What do you like best about the product?
The JAMstack methodology has changed the way websites are made for many designers and developers. Netlify's developer experience, git integrations, and atomic deployment are a dream to use. Authentication, SSL certificates and DNS are built in and easy to use as well. Their documentation and community focus are unmatched amongst their competitors. NetlifyCMS is a great start on a git powered CMS that requires no actual database.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform started with an extremely generous free plan and has become more restrictive as time goes on. Netlify need to make money but it'd be nice to get the same benefits as when I signed up. Lambda functions are a nice feature but easier to use on Zeit/Vercel. Builds can take a long time for bigger sites with a lot of pages, support for incremental builds is not easy to do with current static site generators or CMS platforms. The expectations of features from Wordpress are not fully mirrored by Netlify yet but is getting closer with NetlifyCMS, TinaCMS, and other software. Using Netlify correctly requires integrating with external APIs or services and requires other services, hosting platforms or databases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast performance, improved security, and easy deployment are built into Netlify's core functionality. I can make sites in less time and with less backend headaches than before Netlify existed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Learn about the JAMstack methodology and integrate it on existing projects or for new ones.
Fast and efficient for html websites
What do you like best about the product?
Automated site deploys from Github make it really easy to deploy your site. Simply push onto the correct branch and it magically deploys. You can go onto a console to see exactly what is happening with the deploy but I usually dont need to do that as it just works. Deploys usually take under a minute to get from my development machine to live in production.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am using hugo with netlify which requires a greater level of technical skill than wordpress but it builds fast sites.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We moved our site from wordpress and its now a lot quicker.
Overpriced, terrible service
What do you like best about the product?
Netlify as a CMS is great. My dev team loves it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer service is horrible. And amidst COVID-19, just after announcing a massive round of funding, Netlify isn't doing anything to help their clients. Their recent change in pricing structure is not scalable, they're not flexible, and again, the customer service is terrible. Last year, they promised 50 builds per minute and our account never performed based on how we paid. Overall, we're looking for a new solution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Integrates well with GitHub, but lots of platforms like Netlify do
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Know that it's expensive and comes with little to no support, slow responses times (sometimes you don't ever get one). Their contracts aren't clear and they don't fulfill them.
Netlify, The Amazing Static Host
What do you like best about the product?
Netlify gives generous limits on its free tier. It is enough to run a small or even medium business for free. They provide a lot of value added offerings as well, like Lambda's, Form submissions and even per Request Analytics. Not only that, but they also let you use free offerings like Formspree or Auth0 if you don't want to use their built-in platform. It even gives you a complete build pipeline to push your builds into for free! Although there are limits, it would still allow you to build an average site everyday of the month without hitting the caps. If that weren't enough, you have access to webhooks so that you can do a conditional build, respond form submissions and other stuff. This is a solid platform that needs to be recognized for its excellence, did I mention free SSL and Custom Domains on the free tier! If that weren't enough, you can also control the headers like CSP, Redirects and others.
What do you dislike about the product?
Honestly, there is not much to dislike. The documentation can be a bit vague around events like Form Submissions or Functions in general, but if your familiar with AWS Lambda's it's not that big a problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am providing small to medium-sized businesses free to low-cost website hosting on this platform. I have several templates to draw from and I get amazing results on this host due to their integration into Cloud Front. Teamed up with Cloudinary, it is a killer Cloud-Native platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have or are building a static website. Netlify is definitely the way to go. The features of the Free Tier are amazing, especially when other PaaS products are used.
Plan suddenly downgraded to starter without warnings, emails, or any communication from Netlify
What do you like best about the product?
The product is relatively easy to use and has team support.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've been a paid Netlify customer for the past year. All of a sudden, Netlify decided that I'm not a paid subscriber / account and downgraded me to a Starter Package. I can't seem to add teammates (or do much of anything with my account).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Simple deployment for static sites
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure that you understand they can yank your plan anytime without warning - Consider using an alternative. I'm still searching for alternatives right now.
Review for Netify
What do you like best about the product?
Netify sends you a notification whenever your phone switches network types, to keep you updated on the type of network you are connected to. It's also ad free which people love.
What do you dislike about the product?
You can also copy and share the Netify Log with the developer or with your friends. But that is ad free so unless you are one of those people who doesn't like to share then who cares.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Netify 1.1.0 now has translation of languages for people I have to deal with in multiple languages. Now they can translate that with the new option. It has been beneficial for my company.
Simple to use
What do you like best about the product?
I love about Netlify that you can customize your domains with http and it does work for you when it comes to handling reviews and deploying previews.
What do you dislike about the product?
Its quite pricy and it is hard to convince companies to start using it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The technical team can easily handle the web development and setup.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
IT companies that rely a lot on the web development should consider the software because it makes life easier.
Creating new websites with Netlify
What do you like best about the product?
Accumulated and very useful features in one central place for site maintenance.
What do you dislike about the product?
some functions are still on testing or beta.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
for small and even medium-sized web projects, Intuitive and simple to use
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very flexible
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