TrustRadius Insights for Netlify Platform are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Easy code deployment: Several users have praised the platform's ability to connect Github/Gitlab repos or drag and drop code folders directly onto the platform for convenient deployment without manual configuration. This feature has been described as helpful and time-saving.
Customizable build and publish details: The platform's customizable build and publish details have been appreciated by users, allowing them to tailor the deployment process according to their specific needs. This level of flexibility has been seen as a positive aspect of the platform.
Automated scaling and CDN support: Many reviewers have highlighted the platform's inbuilt scalability support, with servers automatically upgrading to handle traffic without any manual intervention required. Additionally, the built-in CDN ensures fast delivery of static applications over the web, contributing to a superior user experience.
We use Netlify to host our production front end and preview deployments. During our CI workflow in CircleCI, we use the Netlify CLI to push up deployment, and we use Netlify's redirect features to redirect all paths at our website URL to our React SPA.
Pros
Availability
CLI
Redirects
Cons
Analytics is extra.
Likelihood to Recommend
Any frontend hosting solution is just great. It's also available for users in China to access. I don't know if this will be a permanent fixture as it's more dependent on China, but our project requires access from China, and Vercel is not accessible there. Netlify is hugely CI-friendly, so I would also recommend it to anyone with a solid CI/CD workflow.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Research & Development (51-200 employees)
We use Netlify Platform to deploy our website, deploy testing previews, process form data and for domain management.
Pros
Easy to review deploy logs and revert builds
Form implementation and integration is easy
Simple domain management
Excellent support
Cons
More flags for customizing deployment environments
Easier navigation
More robust A/B planning
Likelihood to Recommend
We are able to run our live instance and several preview instances at the same time due to how well Netlify serves our needs. Furthermore, with the in-built form processing, creating and sharing new form data is a breeze. Overall, our experience with Netlify has been great and I would recommend any organization looking for a deployment solution to use their platform.
Netlify Platform is used for quick and fast PoC deployments for JavaScript based PWAs. We use it to quickly connect to Github to auto configure CI CD and test our applications in real time. This allows us to not depend on the complex standard delivery pipelines that are normally used for production releases, and instead, provide an easy way to test our changes for smaller applications. We run an average of 30 deployment pipelines a week, based on a variety of projects across the department
Pros
I can connect Github/Gitlab repos or drag and drop code folders directly to host them onto the platform, and can customize build and publish details. It handles all granular details itself, so I don't have to worry about configuring everything like I would have to do on an IaaS like AWS
Netlify Platform has inbuilt scalability support - meaning automatic upgrading of servers to handle traffic, without us needing to do anything at all, again, unlike IaaS, where we'd have to manually configure scaling
It has a built in CDN, meaning static applications can be served blazing fast over the web without worrying about traffic or latency
Cons
Netlify Platform is mainly aimed at static and frontend applications and doesn't have any particular backend hosting features like server or database tools. This makes it fall short of the use case that options like Heroku provide
Netlify Platform has a free tier, but the costs shoot up if the website is aimed at commercial use, and can easily cross the limits, thus for commercial use, it's better to consider all alternatives
In an ease to simplify hosting for small applications, there is a lack of control on a lot of configuration options in Netlify Platform since it's all abstracted away, and thus, there's not a lot of customization possible
Likelihood to Recommend
Netlify Platform is the best tool when you want to quickly host and test small PoC apps or frontend applications where you don't expect a lot of traffic. It is best for simple React, Angular, Next or similar other apps. It is not appropriate for full stack applications, applications requiring databases, or hosting requirements wherein you'd need to customize the scalability
I used Netlify Platform for freelancing. Used the platform to host blog sites and freelanced websites. It addresses the cost problems for freelancers since it allows you to host your first site for free and the monthly cost for hosting a website is minimal. It is very useful for bloggers as they can host their blog site for free.
Pros
Can be easily integrated with other applications like Git
Generous free tier
Friendly developer tools
Cons
Documentation can be better for beginners
Not a feature rich platform
Pro features are costly
Likelihood to Recommend
Netlify Platform can be best used for hosting personal sites like blog posts and for hosting easy and minimal websites. The platform is not appropriate for hosting large scale websites which might encounter huge traffic. Not ideal for large scale organisations. Best used for local business and small scale websites.
VU
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
I use Netlify to host several of my personal websites. In my professional work, I have also used it for things like sharing design work and quickly hosting a prototype of ongoing projects. It's a great project for this type of thing because it allows you to quickly drag a folder of static files into the browser to deploy for sharing.
Pros
Hosting
Sharing static files.
Deployment
Cons
Hosting dynamic sites.
Content authoring for average users.
Likelihood to Recommend
Netlify is a static website host, so it obviously wouldn't work for hosting dynamic websites built in PHP, such as WordPress or Drupal. It works very well with static sites with a git codebase on something like GitHub. It has automatic deployments, which include preview websites. It works very well with this workflow. There are solutions for allowing content authoring on static websites on Netlify, but I would probably reach for something like WordPress or Drupal for that.
In my organization, we use the Netlify Platform on a regular basis. if you want to build or deploy the sites from git then Netlify platform is the best option to go with. It is very good and easy to use. We use the Netlify Platform for multipurpose like maintaining tasks, generating reports, building and deploying sites and many more. It is very well maintained which attracts us to work towards this.
Pros
build and deployment
generating the allure reports
maintaining the task on this
Cons
NA
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NA
Likelihood to Recommend
Whenever it comes to generating the allure execution reports or instantly building and deploying the site then Netlify Platform is the best option to go forward with. It gives us a sense of security and also it generates the API key which we can integrate with our frame work and go ahead with things.
VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
we have two types of business scenarios that we run on Netlify Platford. Frontend with modern javascript frameworks like React, Vue & Angular Statically generated sites/portfolio AKA JamStack for the first case, we already have our backend code running on a server and exposing API endpoints. we can readily use this API with basic AUTH like JWT, Netlify Platform can handle the rest. more often than not, once we set up a project on Netlify Platform, we never have to check out the admin panel. Netlify Platform has a robust CMD tool. once the Pipeline setup is live, all one has to do is just commit and push the code. that's how easy it is the second scenario is to host statically generated Jamstack sites. these are basically pre-rendered websites that provide blazingly fast response time. once again, the same magic happens here, you focus on your code and just push it, Netlify Platform with its global range of CDN will distribute it for optimal speed.
Pros
command line tool
fast network of global CDNs
CI/CD ready to deploy
Cons
it is not aimed at it but first party laravel support would be nice.
their free tier was so handy, i wish they start some similar efforts
incorporate more WebOps mindset
Likelihood to Recommend
Ideal scenario: let's say you have a portfolio site, you've built it using a modern javascript framework like Next.js. this inherently operates on the Jamstack philosophy. essentially it maps the whole possible outcome of web clicks and prerenders the website. this yields blazingly fast websites. it can also be used to create such blogs. Less ideal scenario: let's say you have some compute-heavy task or some enterprise application with lots of moving parts. Netlify Platform shouldn't be an ideal choice then, it may handle some complex blog and content management sites but its plays to its perks as most of them are static sites. enterprise applications are highly dynamic. thus renders Netlify Platform not a worthy contender.
To deploy and host static websites, we used Netlify Platform. Netlify is a simple platform that allows you to quickly deploy applications to its servers. It integrates seamlessly with GitHub for CI/CD process, where we kept our code repositories. One of the best things about Netlify is that it automatically performs a preview deployment for any commit in feature branches, allowing you to review the changes before you go to production.
Pros
Preview deployment
DNS management
CI/CD integration
Cons
The total build minutes in free tier could be increased
Likelihood to Recommend
Netlify is best suited for the following scenarios: hosting of static-websites, CI/CD for static-websites, custom domain with SSL for the deployed website, out of the box CDN support which reduces website load time
We build websites and we use Netlify for hosting our websites. Its starter pack is good for beginners who build websites just for fun or have fewer users/visitors (less than one hundred). It's good for hosting multiple websites when you have multiple projects going on side by side. It is also good when you need to temporarily host your website for testing before main deployment.
Pros
Hosting multiple websites and having multiple projects
Updating the site by directly connecting to Github repository as new code is pushed
Temporary deployment to show preview on GitHub pull requests
Cons
Seemed good till now but the starter pack has limited storage
Site goes into sleep mode if it has no visitor for many days
The GitHub extension is also part of the enterprise pack but is an excellent feature
Likelihood to Recommend
If you write code regularly and need to deploy websites, it's a good platform to deploy and host your websites. It's good to seamlessly monitor the deployment process. It has a logs feature where you can check your errors and previous deployment status. It is good for handling multiple projects and websites.
In order to make user acceptance testing, general QA testing, and developer-based testing easier to use, we are currently automating our build and deployment processes. the business issues I resolved were having environment variables for some client-side and server-side rendering for Javascript libraries, as well as readily maintaining SSL certificates.
Pros
CI/CD Actions are pretty good, makes it really easy to deploy changes
netlify functions is a great feature it let us ran server side stuff or scripts
redirects module is very useful and easy to use
Cons
they don't offer SSR for Vue as per now
you need to buy a paid plan to be able to add someone as collaborator
Tech support isn't very helpful. I feel like I am on my own
Likelihood to Recommend
Everything you need for the majority of projects is available, including a fairly generous free plan, custom domains, an intuitive administration interface, and cloud functions. The redirects module is strong but very easy to use. Benefits include quick cloud hosting with API functionality and easy GitHub deployment integration that is really faster
