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Forge vs Netlify: What are the differences?

Forge and Netlify are both popular platforms for deploying web applications. Despite serving a similar purpose, there are key differences between the two that users should consider.

  1. Ease of Use: Netlify is known for its user-friendly interface and easy setup process. Users can simply drag and drop their files to deploy a website, while Forge may require more technical knowledge and configuration.

  2. Integrations: Netlify offers a wide range of integrations with popular tools and services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, allowing for seamless deployment workflows. Forge, on the other hand, may have limited integration options.

  3. Scalability: Netlify is renowned for its scalability, offering automatic scaling based on traffic spikes and usage. Forge may have limitations in terms of scalability and may require users to manually adjust resources.

  4. Cost: Netlify offers a free tier with generous features, making it an attractive option for small projects and personal websites. Forge may have a different pricing structure or fewer free options.

  5. Version Control: Netlify has robust version control capabilities, allowing users to easily revert to previous versions of their deployed websites. Forge may have limited version control features or require additional tools for this function.

  6. Server Management: Netlify abstracts away server management from users, handling all the backend infrastructure. Forge may require users to have more control and responsibility over server configurations and maintenance.

In Summary, while both Forge and Netlify offer web deployment services, Netlify excels in ease of use, integrations, scalability, and version control, whereas Forge may require more technical expertise and manual configurations.

Decisions about Forge and Netlify
Howie Zhao
Full Stack Engineer at yintrust · | 7 upvotes · 215.3K views
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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 Forge
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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
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    Deploy previews
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    Free Open Source (Pro) plan
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    Great loop-in material on a blog
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    Analytics
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    Easy to use and great support
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    Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments
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    Great drag and drop functionality
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    Custom domains support
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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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Cons of Forge
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      It's expensive
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      Bandwidth limitation

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    What is Forge?

    Fastest possible way to host lighting-fast static websites for small businesses, web startups, and app developers.

    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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    What are some alternatives to Forge and Netlify?
    Fabric
    Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution.
    Spigot
    It is home to the community behind the biggest Minecraft server software projects and provides a place for everyone involved with Minecraft servers to connect with each other whether they seeking help and support or sharing and showcasing their work. We provide a web forum, chat room and wiki for providing support as well as project hosting for content creators and hope that you too will become involved in this extensive and growing community of more than 300,000 members.
    GitHub Pages
    Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
    Vercel
    A cloud platform for serverless deployment. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, all with minimal configuration.
    Webflow
    Webflow is a responsive design tool that lets you design, build, and publish websites in an intuitive interface. Clean code included!
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