Why do we use Netlify/other sites to host framework written apps, instead of just using Github Pages
Title, I'm curious and haven't found a solid answer yet when searching online. I'd like to know why I'm told to use sites like Netlify, Cloudflare, Heroku, instead of what I was doing with vanilla JS projects which is throwing it up using github pages
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if it needs server rendering, github pages doesn't really provide that
fair enough, I've just reazlied how incredibly easy netlify is to use, so I'm happy to use it going forward lol https://cdl-todo.netlify.app/
it looks good
and it loads fast, so, seems like a good choice
I also use Netlify for some of the security features and its API has a lot of options around monitoring tools for your own systems.
Does github pages allow commercial use?
Netlify seems very easy to use, so I'm happy to use it for hosting lol
no, they dont
another good reason then, even the free tiers of netlify and such usually allow commercial use
github pages is just for static content, usually related to a repo
Yeah i'll host all my apps going forward on netlify, prefer it anyway
Was going to point this out
Netlify has odd verbage... Vercel for sure is not for commerical in the free tier
The big thing CDL you need to know is the difference in hosting types
Serverless, server, static
After that you can make a choice better 😄
github = static only
Netlify = serverless/static
Serverless is another one our wonderfull marketing tech words too... cause its more like server on demand lol
has its limitations and its benefits though.
I see. Obviously if I want a server/db etc used I'd probably need to pay for some cloud software eh
and that would be the case for most full stack apps?
cloud is a loaded term too xD
lol yeah I know
it was very general
you would want a server
xD
I haven't stepped foot properly into the backend world. Or well, I've built console apps, and a JSON file to fetch data, but that's about, never tried to host any of it
so the server hosting is a new one 😛