Comment by epiccoleman
1 year ago
Just switched my site to Cloudflare Pages. It took all of 5 minutes including futzing around with DNS stuff through the (ever-annoying) Google Domains settings page.
I'm usually pretty chill, and can't help but feel like I'm overreacting - but the risk of being sent an unexpected bill of even a few hundred dollars for something outside my control is unacceptable. Trusting that Netlify will do right by me and forgive the debt in a similar situation is not an acceptable strategy for managing that risk, so epiccoleman.com now lives at a provider without this risk.
This is the beauty of static sites, btw - switching to a new host is the work of mere minutes.
Your comment with it taking only 5 minutes made me move my sites. And indeed it was super fast. Thanks for the needed motivation!
I don’t think you are overreacting. I had Netlify in pro mode at work and their pricing tactics are predatory. It was really hard to figure out why I got charged a seat, even though nobody had rights etc. And I couldn’t then remove these seats, I had to wait a month and hope I figured out where those contributors came from.