Y’all. I want to explore Netlify alternatives. I don’t deploy apps there, only websites. I love being able to push to GIT repos and have them publish to my server, so I want wanna give that up.
Any solid recommendations?
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@markwyner I moved from it to Cloudflare Pages years ago and have found it to be a superior service.
Obviously not the most ethical choice with them currently sitting in front of half the internet, and being known for scumbag sales tactics. Right now being a US company doesn't help either.
But they do offer a good service. And it's cheap.
@jonikorpi thanks. Someone else also mentioned Cloudflare. As you mentioned, it’s ethics standing in the way. And aside from the reasons you mentioned, they also protect nefarious people doing bad things with a shrug.
It’s too bad because they do offer some good services.
@markwyner Switched all my sites from Netlify toCloudflare Pages (or Cloudflare Workers) a while back and it's been fine. A bit more of a learning curve to use Cloudflare particularly the UX weirdness going between your domain setups and your site setups. They're pushing people towards Workers instead of Pages; you can do all the same stuff (like have builds happen automatically when you push to your git remote) with both, but it's slightly more annoying to set up with Workers whereas Pages is much more similar to Netlify's UI.
I like the "block AI/LLM crawlers" option Cloudflare has a box I can check for each site, even though Cloudflare is also on the side of enabling the LLM crawlers in other ways...
@cassey thank you. More than one person has suggested Cloudflare. On paper they have what I want, for the reasons you mention and others. But I have ethical concerns with them (no disrespect to you).
@markwyner if you have ethical concerns with Cloudflare, Vercel is almost certainly not the direction you want to go either fwiw, unless your ethical concerns go in a dramatically different direction than I am hoping/assuming
There are probably smaller hosts out there where those concerns would be satisfied and meet your needs, but I don't have their names offhand!
@cassey thank you! That’s super helpful. I hadn’t heard about that Netanyahu boot-licking. Ugh. I appreciate that you mentioned this. 🙌🏻
@markwyner Self-hosting https://coolify.io or https://www.statichost.eu might be options?
@davidhund thanks. Coolify really caught my attention. It seemed a little messy with having to BYO hardware. But I’m still exploring.
@markwyner I moved from Vercel (using a similar Git-based setup) to NearlyFreeSpeech.net and like it a lot! Wrote a little post about the process here: https://mostol.dev/post/202509172307/
(and half of the post is about Forgejo runners, so if you’re using e.g. GitHub, things are probably a little easier)
@mostol Thanks. I was actually checking out Vercel. I hadn’t heard of Nearly Free Speech. They look promising. I’m going to be exploring their setup.