Netlify Platform Information Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

19 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Netlify Platform are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Easy code deployment: Several users have praised the platform's ability to connect Github/Gitlab repos or drag and drop code folders directly onto the platform for convenient deployment without manual configuration. This feature has been described as helpful and time-saving.
Customizable build and publish details: The platform's customizable build and publish details have been appreciated by users, allowing them to tailor the deployment process according to their specific needs. This level of flexibility has been seen as a positive aspect of the platform.
Automated scaling and CDN support: Many reviewers have highlighted the platform's inbuilt scalability support, with servers automatically upgrading to handle traffic without any manual intervention required. Additionally, the built-in CDN ensures fast delivery of static applications over the web, contributing to a superior user experience.

Netlify Platform Reviews

5 Reviews

InformationComputer Software5

Best for minimal traffic websites

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 22, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Netlify Platform for freelancing. Used the platform to host blog sites and freelanced websites. It addresses the cost problems for freelancers since it allows you to host your first site for free and the monthly cost for hosting a website is minimal. It is very useful for bloggers as they can host their blog site for free.

Pros

Can be easily integrated with other applications like Git
Generous free tier
Friendly developer tools

Cons

Documentation can be better for beginners
Not a feature rich platform
Pro features are costly

Likelihood to Recommend

Netlify Platform can be best used for hosting personal sites like blog posts and for hosting easy and minimal websites. The platform is not appropriate for hosting large scale websites which might encounter huge traffic. Not ideal for large scale organisations. Best used for local business and small scale websites.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Netlify Platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 16, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In my organization, we use the Netlify Platform on a regular basis. if you want to build or deploy the sites from git then Netlify platform is the best option to go with. It is very good and easy to use. We use the Netlify Platform for multipurpose like maintaining tasks, generating reports, building and deploying sites and many more. It is very well maintained which attracts us to work towards this.

Pros

build and deployment
generating the allure reports
maintaining the task on this

Cons

Likelihood to Recommend

Whenever it comes to generating the allure execution reports or instantly building and deploying the site then Netlify Platform is the best option to go forward with. It gives us a sense of security and also it generates the API key which we can integrate with our frame work and go ahead with things.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

The best platform for hosting, deploying, and managing static websites

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

To deploy and host static websites, we used Netlify Platform. Netlify is a simple platform that allows you to quickly deploy applications to its servers. It integrates seamlessly with GitHub for CI/CD process, where we kept our code repositories. One of the best things about Netlify is that it automatically performs a preview deployment for any commit in feature branches, allowing you to review the changes before you go to production.

Pros

Preview deployment
DNS management
CI/CD integration

Cons

The total build minutes in free tier could be increased

Likelihood to Recommend

Netlify is best suited for the following scenarios: hosting of static-websites, CI/CD for static-websites, custom domain with SSL for the deployed website, out of the box CDN support which reduces website load time

Ankush Jain

Cloud Consultant in Engineering at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Best for multiple projects deployment and seamless deployment

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We build websites and we use Netlify for hosting our websites. Its starter pack is good for beginners who build websites just for fun or have fewer users/visitors (less than one hundred). It's good for hosting multiple websites when you have multiple projects going on side by side. It is also good when you need to temporarily host your website for testing before main deployment.

Pros

Hosting multiple websites and having multiple projects
Updating the site by directly connecting to Github repository as new code is pushed
Temporary deployment to show preview on GitHub pull requests

Cons

Seemed good till now but the starter pack has limited storage
Site goes into sleep mode if it has no visitor for many days
The GitHub extension is also part of the enterprise pack but is an excellent feature

Likelihood to Recommend

If you write code regularly and need to deploy websites, it's a good platform to deploy and host your websites. It's good to seamlessly monitor the deployment process. It has a logs feature where you can check your errors and previous deployment status. It is good for handling multiple projects and websites.

Verified User

Team Lead (Computer Software company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Netlify is the tool to use for software development builds

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In order to make user acceptance testing, general QA testing, and developer-based testing easier to use, we are currently automating our build and deployment processes. the business issues I resolved were having environment variables for some client-side and server-side rendering for Javascript libraries, as well as readily maintaining SSL certificates.

Pros

CI/CD Actions are pretty good, makes it really easy to deploy changes
netlify functions is a great feature it let us ran server side stuff or scripts
redirects module is very useful and easy to use

Cons

they don't offer SSR for Vue as per now
you need to buy a paid plan to be able to add someone as collaborator
Tech support isn't very helpful. I feel like I am on my own

Likelihood to Recommend

Everything you need for the majority of projects is available, including a fairly generous free plan, custom domains, an intuitive administration interface, and cloud functions. The redirects module is strong but very easy to use. Benefits include quick cloud hosting with API functionality and easy GitHub deployment integration that is really faster

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Computer Software company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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