Netlify
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Cloudflare or Netlify Pages for static projects”
“For low-volume static sites (which all of mine are) this is free, fast, and convenient.”
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“a static hosting service with a generous free tier like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc.”
“Netlify giving me previews of the PR's changes for me to see before merging”
Caveats and dissent
“I got frustrated hitting the free tier limits on Netlify”
“just last week we moved away from netlify to our own solution on AWS.”
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“Netlify got AI-pilled some time ago, which makes me feel vindicated in my position.”
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Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites? 3 mentions
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- An interactive in-browser tutorial for MarkoJS V6 with solvable lessons 1 mention
- Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25 1 mention
- Cloudflare Drop 1 mention
- Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026] 1 mention
Data: netlify.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
I have 11 VM’s running on exe.dev for $20/month. There’s one I use every day for my links website [1] and the rest are mostly-idle development machines. One of them has the git worktree and preview website for a static website that’s hosted on Netlify. [2] Checking out a git repo in a Linux VM and hosting prod elsewhere (automatically deployed via a push to GitHub) seems like a nice pattern. Since exe.dev doesn’t cha
“Cloudflare or Netlify Pages for static projects”
“I use a Netlify function to do extremely simple auth”
“For low-volume static sites (which all of mine are) this is free, fast, and convenient.”
“its hosted on Netlify under the 300 free credits”
“a static hosting service with a generous free tier like CloudFlare Pages/Workers, Netlify, Firebase Hosting, etc.”
“I got frustrated hitting the free tier limits on Netlify”
“Netlify giving me previews of the PR's changes for me to see before merging”
“just last week we moved away from netlify to our own solution on AWS.”
“said "deploy to netlify"”
“Hopefully I can still run it on netlify.”
“Hosting: Netlify (static export).”
“Netlify got AI-pilled some time ago, which makes me feel vindicated in my position.”
“2-click Netlify deployments right from the app”