Comment by jskherman
1 year ago
Regardless, at the end of the day, budgets still need to be followed whether you're an individual or a business. It's simply insane in the first place that someone on the free tier would want absolutely no downtime regardless of how high the traffic is. For that, it would make sense for such an individual to be already on an Enterprise plan if they do expect it to likely happen and for which many do not.
I think it depends on what you're using the free plan for. If you're kickstarting a business and manage to attract a wide audience by getting featured on HN/Reddit/the news, you may want to sacrifice a few thousand dollars for the user growth that all of this traffic provided. Paying enterprise pricing doesn't necessarily make sense if you're normally getting less than a few thousand visits per day. Same goes for all the hip and cool server solutions such as "serverless" cloud functions.
The core product is already enterprise-grade. Netlify's pricing page basically turns into a "contact sales" button when you select "enterprise", probably for businesses that did their math and are trying to get a discount. Everything about their website seems to target medium to large businesses or hopeful startups.