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?

#Development #Websites #Hosting #Netlify #AskFedi

@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. 🙌🏻