$19/month is quite a jump up from free.<p>I set a business up to use Netlify to host a handful of legacy static sites (some with build processes, some without), because it was easier to do than S3 + Cloudfront.<p>They have a GitHub organisation account so looks like for the occasional updates I'll have to manually deploy.<p>If it was $5 or $10/month I doubt we'd give upgrading a second thought, but at this price point alternatives like build locally and SFTP to cheap shared hosting are worth the extra effort.
This has been handled really badly.<p>There's no indication of timeline. Great, they offer a month free, but what happens today if you don't upgrade? Tomorrow? Do your builds just stop? Do they stop at the end of the month?<p>The pricing is also.. remarkably high. It's not $19/mo for the feature, it's $19/mo for <i>every</i> git contributor who pushes to master. Even on a small team this ramps pretty quickly.<p>I really like(d) Netlify, and have no problems paying for services. Their starter plan was always surprisingly generous. But the way this change has been handled feels like a pure money grab and a bit of a f*ck-you to the users who have been working with Netlify in good faith.<p>Power to them I guess, but it leaves a bad enough taste that we'll look elsewhere now.
As much as the actual scope of this will only affect a small number of users who happen to use the organisations feature, $19 for this feature is _a lot_ for some CI. My $5 droplet on DO gives me a jenkins with no limitations on what repos I can build, writing out statically to Nginx to serve, but I fully admit not everyone can run that sort of thing. In my case, the monthly time cost is next to zero, and it’s never gone down.<p>This pricing would make me think twice about using Netlify for anything other than a company already making money. Granted, thats not always a bad thing, Akamai has used that sort of model for years, but having services developers like for their personal stuff is usually the best way to get a foot in the door, and this is just another reason a dev might choose something else.
This bit us recently as well. Got a $38 monthly bill for a single, one-page, oneoff static site we were hosting there that used to be free. I think it's because the CI (bot) user in our GH org counted as one user, and my GH account counted as a second user after I made a recent commit. Feels like Netlify is trying to juice up their revenue. :shrug:<p>I checked Vercel, and they do the same thing (charge for GH org accounts).<p>Fortunately, GitHub recently announced support for using Actions as a generic builder for Pages: <a href="https://github.blog/changelog/2022-07-27-github-pages-custom-github-actions-workflows-beta/" rel="nofollow">https://github.blog/changelog/2022-07-27-github-pages-custom...</a><p>They're recommending this approach as an alternative to their in-house Jekyll version: <a href="https://github.com/github/pages-gem/issues/651#issuecomment-1197448026" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/github/pages-gem/issues/651#issuecomment-...</a>
Please update the title.<p>This only affects organization-owned repos.<p><i>This does not include public GitHub repositories or repositories owned by personal GitHub accounts (public or private). Though this policy may expand to other Git providers in the future, repositories hosted by other Git providers are not affected at this time.</i>
Firebase hosting is still free. A little bit harder to setup but that's one time.<p>The thing about checking for git contributors and automatically billing you extra seems kind of wrong to me. It's inventivizing you to monitor users on another platform to save on simple static hosting etc.
Well that was easy:<p><a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/migrations/migrating-from-netlify" rel="nofollow">https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/migrations/migrating...</a>
If anyone on this thread is looking for an alternative, I’m a cofounder of Coherence (withcoherence.com).<p>We offer a netlify-like experience (managed CI, preview environments) built on top of your own cloud account. And we also offer an integrated Cloud IDE for use as a development environment. Today we support GCP but AWS is coming soon. To address one comment I’ve seen here with other alternatives, we don’t have the DNS/custom domain limitations of Cloudflare pages.<p>For a static site, migration should be very straightforward and we are happy to help if you run into any issues. Feel free to ping hn@withcoherence.com!
If you have private repos for an organisation you are probably also paying already which means you get to use GitHub pages.<p>GitHub pages also supports some rendering mechanisms, alternatively GitHub actions can be used. GitHub pages also has tls for custom domains. So what is left for netlify? Previews?<p>I originally moved my personal site to net lift because of Hugo support and the support for tls. I’m not affected by this change. But the communication is still weird.
you can give this a try if you are ok to self host <a href="https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/newbeelearn/sserver</a>