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Howie Zhao
Full Stack Engineer at yintrust · | 7 upvotes · 231.7K views

We use Netlify to host static websites.

The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:

  • Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
  • With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public

In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.

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Pros of Forestry
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      Easy deploy
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      Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments
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      Free SSL support
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      Super simple deploys
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      Easy Setup and Continous deployments
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      Faster than any other option in the market
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      Free plan for personal websites
    • 8
      Deploy previews
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      Free Open Source (Pro) plan
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      Easy to use and great support
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      Analytics
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      Great loop-in material on a blog
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      Custom domains support
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      Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments
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      Great drag and drop functionality
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      Canary Releases (Split Tests)
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      Supports static site generators
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      Tech oriented support
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      Django

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        It's expensive
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        Bandwidth limitation

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      What is Forestry?

      It is a simple Git-based CMS for Jekyll and Hugo sites. Built for devs who hate bloat. It helps developers manage a content-based system into their websites seamlessly and there's also the benefits of collaborating with teams while at it.

      What is Netlify?

      Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

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