let us know if you need any help moving out docs, websites or any other web property from there, we'll be super happy to help. Projects like Kubernetes, Docker and React are already using our free offering for Open Source.
Correct, Read the Docs isn't going away, and maintainers certainly don't need to worry about moving their documentation. We'll just be switching hosts before the end of the year.
We actually got hints of the fact that Rackspace was axing their F/OSS program back in May, and have been slowly prodding folks in the Python community about sponsoring hosting since then. Rackspace never confirmed if/when the program was going away, but we were anticipating this since their acquisition.
Yep, I already talked to Chris about it, thanks! I talked to you guys a week ago about HTTP/2 Push, I didn't know you'd have it ready so soon. I'm eager to get this working on stavros.io, so please feel free to email me so we can debug this!
You're right, everything that the CMS does currently could also be done with raw Git messages. The CMS is designed to have pluggable backends. We had an early version working with Git directly. We decided to focus in one backend at a time rather than having several half integrated because the core features were evolving too fast to support several backends initially.
We plan on support raw Git in the future again. It's a matter of making sure it's useful for more people other than developers that already know how to use Git.
I agree with you, $10 in AWS fees sounds like a lot of traffic. That's also why Netlify has a free tier. We leave paid plans for people with more traffic. We event have a redundant DNS service for people that really really need it. For your needs is completely free of charge and hassle :)
I was just looking at your pricing. :) All in all Netlify does offer a compelling service for this scope. I'm also interested in the Pro tier being free for OSS, that's fantastic!
To be fair, setting up AWS for the first time is a real PITA and I happen to have had it all set up (IAM, buckets, command line, etc) already, so my barrier to entry was low. Had I known of Netlify when I first moved my site to AWS I probably would have gone with Netlify for the convenience and free HTTPS cert.
Netlify Pages is our free tier that offers a few things that GitLab Pages doesn't offer. For instance, we build merge requests for you and integrate them with commit statuses. So you get a real development workflow for your websites.
Did you guys change it recently? I remember it being $9/mo the other day for a custom domain, which is pretty much a prerequisite for everyone. Your current pricing is much more attractive (of course, it's free)!
you're absolutely right :) We did change it recently. Now Netlify Pages (Free plan) includes Custom Domain and HTTPS. It also gives you Continuous Delivery. Again, completely free of charge.
Lastly, any open source project get's the Pro Plan (normally $49 per month) for free as well :)
CloudFront is good. We use it for large assets. After managing thousands of sites, we realized that it's actually a hassle to manage cache invalidation yourself.
We work with several cloud providers to offer a better experience at the CDN level and manage caches for you. Our CDN also allows proxying end-to-end encrypted connections, so you can use it to host front-end apps and redirect requests to backend servers somewhere else.
I put it up on our blog, but many S3 deployment SaaS operations or even self-hosted solutions will invalidate CDN caches automatically based on files deployed to S3.
Did you pay to have this piece written? It's suspicious that the author is so in favor of an overengineered solution for something as simple as static site hosting.
Signup permissions is definitely something we need to work on more. We optimized them at the beginning to give people the best experience possible, but we'll definitely iterate to allow using Netlify with less permissions. We just need to find the right workflow to still keep it as simple and powerful as possible.
Just to follow up. I have a hugo site that has a pretty custom directory layout. I managed to sign up and get it provisioned with letsencrypt already. Definitely cool.
let us know if you need any help moving out docs, websites or any other web property from there, we'll be super happy to help. Projects like Kubernetes, Docker and React are already using our free offering for Open Source.