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Netlify has a free plan and you don't have to tinker with containers.

There are a few things that genuinely please me in web development and one of them is how stupid-easy Netlify makes things.

I've seen Netlify mentioned a few times now. Are there any downsides/negatives to using it?

I’ve wondered the same thing. It’s so ridiculously convenient that there has to a catch!

I previously used the S3 + Cloudfront setup that many commenters have mentioned, but have switched to Netlify for static sites simply because I don’t have the overhead of setting up any configuration in AWS. With Netlify, you can be up and running with a new static site as soon as the DNS record propagates.

I’ve always wondered if there was any throttling or performance impact at high traffic- but I haven’t built any high-traffic sites yet :)

One catch is 100gb limit but for a personal site you will never hit that.

Anyone recommending S3, github pages etc hasn't tried Netlify.

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