Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites

Thanks for your kind words, very touching ! It's very important for us that people can self-host and manage on their side, it makes a lot of sense particularly for static site hosting. A lot of webdev agencies can use this for site previews for their clients, even for production uses.

We do plan to monetize it :) We will spin up a cloud instance with paid plans, where users that don't want to self host but love Meli's features can still enjoy it there.

Thanks so much !

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Thanks for the kind words ! Sites are served by Caddy, so you can handle thousands of requests per second without any problem on a cheap VPS ! There are a few benchmarks with Caddy vs. Nginx and Caddy performs as well, if not better in most cases. But I don't want to bash Nginx because we have used it for several years and it's great for most cases, you wouldn't see any difference in 99% of cases. Also, it really depends on how they're configured.

You can handle as many custom domains as you want, there's no limit that I know of ! However, we haven't tested performance for thousands of domains yet as we haven't had the need. We'll be sure to do some performance testing on that.

Hi there ! Great question :) Both platforms integrate with your Git repository and build your code on their side. Most people already have CI for things like lint, test, build, and we honestly believe that CI should be the center of everything. They (Netlify for sure, and I guess Vercel) do offer a CLI to upload from your CI, but you then loose features like preview links in your pull requests. Beyond that, Meli is free, open source (Netlify isn't I believe), and self-hosted (Netlify isn't either), and with a cheap VPS at $3-4/month you can serve unlimited sites and handle thousands of requests per second, thanks to the Caddy server which handles serving your sites. You get a great Slack/Mattermost/Webhook integration and a great API as well :) We like having self-hosted apps, and deploying Meli takes a couple of minutes and is super easy to maintain. We do not integrate with Git repositories (but you can use Github/Gitea/Gitlab to login) but when you upload code from your CI, we automatically detect the Git branch on which you are and use this to drive previews on your Meli sites. Getting new features with companies like Netlify or Vercel might take some time as they have grown. I do believe that it's good to have alternatives that bring fresh air and allow re-shaping how people want to ship, the right way :)