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Ask HN: Netlify service quality degraded recently?

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I got lot of monitoring alerts on ALL my netlify sites nearly daily since last few weeks, yesterday it was completly down for 15mn ... while I was doing a demo... Do you also have issues recently with Netlify being down 5-15min per day since several weeks?

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I've been using Netlify for several sites for the past year or two. According to my uptime monitoring, they have 1-5 minute outages about once a month. It seems like it's always been like this to me.

I've been considering moving to Cloudflare pages as I'm heavily using Cloudflare for other things, but I haven't looked into it yet.

We tried this but found that while Cloudflare pages is great for something simple, they're missing a lot of features that make it truly business production ready. For instance, we use a monorepo, which Cloudflare pages doesn't support.

That's about what I was expecting. I was expecting Cloudflare pages to be pretty basic. It's just a feature owned by a team compared to Netlify's entire business.

Maybe I'll just get enable the Cloudflare proxy for my Netlify sites.

I use Netlify for deployments but I put it behind a CloudFlare CDN rather than use the Netlify's CDN. I didn't do that for any specific reason than I was already using CloudFlare and seemed to make sense to use it for what they're good at. I haven't noticed any outages but don't have any high-traffic uses that would notice 15-minute outages.

Yeah, I have grafana cloud monitoring my personal websites and there have been several incidents/outages from netlify over the past month. A tweet to them went unanswered as well. The downtime has been bad enough that I’m thinking of moving out for netlify and just deploy them on either GitHub pages or S3 & Cloudfront.

According to my monitoring emails, my site was down for 3 at least 5 minute intervals, but that hasn’t happened for months.

just migrate to cloudflare pages, there is no use for netlify anymore.

yes indeed, this is what I ended with ... now no more 500 errors / timeouts, and the sites seems a lot faster for TTFB

how does netlify even go down, isn't it just an abstraction around an object store + CDN.

500 errors returned, or timeouts ... they do have servers that control permissions / rate limite / return the object store object ... those servers are either down or slow according to my monitoring

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