GitHub Pages vs Netlify vs Surge

Overview

GitHub Pages

Stacks17.9K

Followers13.0K

Votes1.1K

Netlify

Stacks3.4K

Followers2.1K

Votes207

Surge

Stacks93

Followers176

Votes60

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Advice on GitHub Pages, Netlify, Surge

Howie

Full Stack Engineer at Yintrust

Aug 13, 2020

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Netlify

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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Detailed Comparison

GitHub Pages	Netlify	Surge
Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.	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.	Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
Blogging with Jekyll; Custom URLs; Automatic Page Generator	Global Network;Global Network;Instant Cache Validation;Atomic Deploys;API proxying;SSL for custom domains;Continuous Deployment;Link to Github or Bitbucket	-
Statistics
Stacks 17.9K	Stacks 3.4K	Stacks 93
Followers 13.0K	Followers 2.1K	Followers 176
Votes 1.1K	Votes 207	Votes 60
Pros & Cons
Pros 290 Free 217 Right out of github 185 Quick to set up 108 Instant 107 Easy to learn Cons 4 Not possible to perform HTTP redirects 3 Supports only Jekyll 3 Limited Jekyll plugins 1 Jekyll is bloated	Pros 47 Easy deploy 43 Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments 22 Free SSL support 22 Super simple deploys 15 Easy Setup and Continous deployments Cons 7 It's expensive 1 Bandwidth limitation	Pros 18 Free plan 13 Simple 11 Free custom domain support 10 Deployment via command line 3 Smart about urls Cons 1 No free redirects
Integrations
GitHub	GitHub Bitbucket	No integrations available

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