Always pleased to see more alternatives to Netlify/Vercel. I love how easy Netlify makes it to deploy things, but I don't really understand their pricing.
I recently built a pretty basic static webapp that would have racked up around £100 in bandwidth charges (~0.5TB) in the first 24 hours on Netlify. I stuck it on BunnyCDN instead after I realised this and it ended up costing around £3. The five or so minutes I save manually running and uploading the build each time is not worth many hundreds of pounds a month.
Netlify's bandwidth charges seem excessive, but then Vercel and DO App Platform are comparable, so maybe I'm missing something. I guess CDN companies have an advantage here. I'd be happy to pay Netlify money for all the sites I host that don't use a lot of bandwidth, but they insist in hosting them for free.
Anyone reselling AWS services wants to price bandwidth above AWS' price, and AWS' bandwidth pricing is high. (E.g. AWS EC2 in us-east-1 to the internet costs up to ~0.09/GB, so your ~0.5 TB would end up at around £33 - although Netlify will obviously have some volume discounts.)
I haven't dealt with AWS very much, but I suspected that might be the case. Thanks for the figures. I guess the margins on bandwidth must be quite significant for cloud service providers.
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Always pleased to see more alternatives to Netlify/Vercel. I love how easy Netlify makes it to deploy things, but I don't really understand their pricing.
I recently built a pretty basic static webapp that would have racked up around £100 in bandwidth charges (~0.5TB) in the first 24 hours on Netlify. I stuck it on BunnyCDN instead after I realised this and it ended up costing around £3. The five or so minutes I save manually running and uploading the build each time is not worth many hundreds of pounds a month.
Netlify's bandwidth charges seem excessive, but then Vercel and DO App Platform are comparable, so maybe I'm missing something. I guess CDN companies have an advantage here. I'd be happy to pay Netlify money for all the sites I host that don't use a lot of bandwidth, but they insist in hosting them for free.
Anyone reselling AWS services wants to price bandwidth above AWS' price, and AWS' bandwidth pricing is high. (E.g. AWS EC2 in us-east-1 to the internet costs up to ~0.09/GB, so your ~0.5 TB would end up at around £33 - although Netlify will obviously have some volume discounts.)
I haven't dealt with AWS very much, but I suspected that might be the case. Thanks for the figures. I guess the margins on bandwidth must be quite significant for cloud service providers.