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Comment by 3stripe | Hacker News Reader

Another way to host a Jekyll website for pennies (and with HTTPS) is https://www.netlify.com/

Go to https://www.netlify.com/features/#dev-tools and check out the dependencies in the image there. I bet an exec said "hey we need a cool looking screenshot of code" and the dev whipped up the most useless package.json they could think of and screen-shotted it. Well, I hope that's the case.

I think that's a jokey reference to the left-pad debacle.

The “executives” at Netlify are engineers themselves, so I doubt that’s the story.

I also love Netlify, but I am interested in this result from google search console:

https://i.imgur.com/ji1z6oz.png

I switched from gh-pages/cloudflare to netlify, and it looks as though page crawl performance has worsened significantly...

Based on what my own tests have shown, it seems that Netlify serves content from EC2 instances in the AWS region that's closest to the visitor (presumably using NS1's Geo Routing). That definitely results in better performance compared to a site served from a single data center or S3 bucket, but it can't quite keep up with CDNs with hundreds of PoPs like Cloudflare or Fastly (which is what GitHub pages runs on). For me, the convenience of Netlify won out over the still relatively minor performance impact.

(IIRC Netlify also has an option you can enable to serve some assets via CloudFront, so that should speed things up for subresources.)

Well, Netlify has no IPv6 support, so it's as good as useless.

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