CDN SUBSTACK PRO

Netlify is a polished and professional service with all kinds of developer-friendly features and tools, but it's not your only option. If Netlify sounds like it might work for you, take the free build for a spin, and that'll give you a much better idea of the features you'll use and their likely costs. Keep in mind, though, that you're getting a lot for your money: hosting, a CDN and a bunch of web APIs, integrations and testing tools. If your site just has a simple contact form which hardly anyone uses, that might be fine if you need every visitor to complete a form, it might be a problem.

CDN SUBSTACK PRO

Netlify's Pro plan starts charging if you receive more than 100 form submissions per site in a month, for instance.

These look like fair value for us, but it all depends on your site and what you're trying to do. And you also get allowances (and overage costs) for build minutes, functions, forms, site users, image transformations and more. Sign up for the Pro plan, for instance, and you'll pay $19 per Member (anyone who commits code in Git or needs to log into Netlify.) There's a 400GB a month bandwidth allowance, with a 20GB per 100GB charge after that. That seems fair, but it also makes life complicated, as there are lots, and lots, and lots of different items which might be chargeable. The commercial plans are 'pay as you go', you're only charged for the capacity and features you use.

There's a blog template, for instance, which you could set up and get working in a couple of minutes.) (Even if you're not a developer, you could use the free plan to build a simple personal site.

Cdn substack