Netlify: New credit-based pricing for today's AI development
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I host all my static sites on Netlify currently paying $19/mo for up to 1 TB of bandwidth. I typically use 300-500 GB and about 4M HTTP requests per month.
This plan change seems to be them metering every little thing I do on Netlify, including charging me every time I publish a new version of my site. If I'm understanding correctly, they're charging for every single HTTP request now.
It looks like when they decide to quietly end grandfathered pricing, I'll be looking at a 3x price hike.
I find it surprisingly difficult to find a host for simple static sites. I just want to host my website and not crash or spike my bill if there's a surge in visitors sometimes. But all the hosts are like, "No, we include geo-redundancy! We include AI cloud functions! Move your build system to us, and then we'll bill you for every minute of your build!"
This is something Bunny CDN should do well, but they have terrible tools for atomically replacing the contents of a static site.
Makes it clear how generous their free tier has been. Comparing the current free plan to the incoming one, as an example: - Unlimited deploys vs 10-15? - 100GB bandwidth vs 1? - Unlimited requests vs 100K?
I have a mixture of paid and personal use, but will be looking around for something with fewer features and a simpler cost structure. Static hosting is the only real feature that's required for a lot of my projects, and the other niceties are completely non-essential.
I have found Netlify to be a great product so far, though.