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Gatsby Cloud vs Netlify: What are the differences?
Introduction
This markdown code provides a comparison between Gatsby Cloud and Netlify, highlighting the key differences between the two platforms.
- Integration with Gatsby's Build Process: Gatsby Cloud is specifically designed for Gatsby sites and seamlessly integrates with Gatsby's build process. It offers built-in features like incremental builds, preview environments, and instant CMS updates, making it the ideal choice for Gatsby developers.
- Hosting and Deployment Options: Netlify is renowned for its hosting and deployment capabilities. It provides a simple and user-friendly interface for hosting static websites. Netlify also offers various deployment options, including continuous deployment through GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories, and integration with other popular frameworks like Hugo or Next.js.
- Back-end Services: Gatsby Cloud provides built-in back-end services like Gatsby Preview, which allows for previewing changes made in CMS without deploying the entire site. It also offers real-time collaboration features for content editors. In contrast, Netlify does not provide built-in back-end services and relies more on hosting and deployment functionalities.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Gatsby Cloud goes a step further in facilitating collaboration and teamwork. Its built-in support for real-time collaboration allows for efficient content editing and commenting between team members, making it easier to work together on website projects. Netlify does not explicitly offer these collaboration features.
- Advanced Performance Optimization: Gatsby Cloud offers advanced performance optimization features like incremental builds, content caching, and image optimization. It ensures faster page load times and improved overall website performance. Although Netlify also offers some performance optimization features, it does not provide the same level of advanced optimization as Gatsby Cloud.
- Pricing and Plans: Gatsby Cloud and Netlify have different pricing models. Netlify offers a free plan with some limitations and additional paid plans for more advanced features and higher usage limits. Gatsby Cloud, on the other hand, offers a tiered pricing structure with different plans based on usage requirements. It is important to compare pricing options and features to choose the most suitable platform for your specific needs.
In summary, Gatsby Cloud excels in its integration with Gatsby's build process, advanced performance optimization, and collaboration features, while Netlify shines with its hosting and deployment capabilities, flexibility with other frameworks, and different pricing options. The choice between the two platforms depends on specific project requirements and priorities.
Decisions about Gatsby Cloud and Netlify
Howie Zhao
Full Stack Engineer at yintrust · | 7 upvotes · 215.6K 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 Netlify
Pros of Gatsby Cloud
- Able to have multiple sites for multiple clients.1
Pros of Netlify
- Easy deploy45
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments43
- Free SSL support22
- Super simple deploys22
- Easy Setup and Continous deployments15
- Faster than any other option in the market10
- Free plan for personal websites10
- Deploy previews8
- Free Open Source (Pro) plan6
- Great loop-in material on a blog4
- Analytics4
- Easy to use and great support4
- Fastest static hosting and continuous deployments3
- Great drag and drop functionality3
- Custom domains support3
- Canary Releases (Split Tests)1
- Supports static site generators1
- Tech oriented support1
- Django0
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Cons of Netlify
- It's expensive7
- Bandwidth limitation1
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What is Gatsby Cloud?
It is the perfect cloud complement for Gatsby and provide a lot of cloud services Gatsby users need like real-time preview and very fast builds.
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 Gatsby Cloud and Netlify?
Gatsby
Gatsby lets you build blazing fast sites with your data, whatever the source. Liberate your sites from legacy CMSs and fly into the future.
Jekyll
Think of Jekyll as a file-based CMS, without all the complexity. Jekyll takes your content, renders Markdown and Liquid templates, and spits out a complete, static website ready to be served by Apache, Nginx or another web server. Jekyll is the engine behind GitHub Pages, which you can use to host sites right from your GitHub repositories.
Hugo
Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability. Hugo takes a directory with content and templates and renders them into a full html website. Hugo makes use of markdown files with front matter for meta data.
VuePress
A minimalistic static site generator with a Vue-powered theming system, and a default theme optimized for writing technical documentation. It was created to support the documentation needs of Vue's own sub projects.
Hexo
Hexo is a fast, simple and powerful blog framework. It parses your posts with Markdown or other render engine and generates static files with the beautiful theme. All of these just take seconds.