Netlify Platform Reviews & Insights

Score10 out of 10

19 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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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

4 Reviews

Engineering

Netlify Platform Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 21, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Netlify Platform to deploy our website, deploy testing previews, process form data and for domain management.

Pros

Easy to review deploy logs and revert builds
Form implementation and integration is easy
Simple domain management
Excellent support

Cons

More flags for customizing deployment environments
Easier navigation
More robust A/B planning

Likelihood to Recommend

We are able to run our live instance and several preview instances at the same time due to how well Netlify serves our needs. Furthermore, with the in-built form processing, creating and sharing new form data is a breeze. Overall, our experience with Netlify has been great and I would recommend any organization looking for a deployment solution to use their platform.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Leisure, Travel & Tourism company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Netlify is an amazing static website host.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Netlify to host several of my personal websites. In my professional work, I have also used it for things like sharing design work and quickly hosting a prototype of ongoing projects. It's a great project for this type of thing because it allows you to quickly drag a folder of static files into the browser to deploy for sharing.

Pros

Hosting
Sharing static files.
Deployment

Cons

Hosting dynamic sites.
Content authoring for average users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Netlify is a static website host, so it obviously wouldn't work for hosting dynamic websites built in PHP, such as WordPress or Drupal. It works very well with static sites with a git codebase on something like GitHub. It has automatic deployments, which include preview websites. It works very well with this workflow. There are solutions for allowing content authoring on static websites on Netlify, but I would probably reach for something like WordPress or Drupal for that.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (Higher Education company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 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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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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