Using netlify for a microsite platform?
I've been using netlify for one of my personal projects and was extremely pleased by the experience. I'm a huge proponent of making things simple and JAMStack was on my radar because of that for a while, netlify in my mind supercharged the concept.
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It almost feels like you're rebuilding Netlify within Netlify. 😂
My impression -- and I could very well be wrong -- is that Netlify's margins are made by hosting a good many sites within one VM, and generally adding a margin on top of other AWS services. You'd certainly save a bundle by doing that work and putting it right on AWS yourself, if you're willing/interested in doing so
For an engineer, it sound exciting to rebuild Netlify -- I bet I would learn a ton. SSL management, how Let's Encrypt Works, how to invalidate cache, having a job that can compile static websites and distribute it over different regions, building my own integration with github..
Yeat, as a father and a husband, I'm afraid my family will go hungry and homeless. Because they trusted me to do this business thingy.. and I spent so much time doing things that don't matter to my clients.
Out of this fear, I'm looking for a way to abstract this complexity -- and I see that Netlify can give me this good abstraction
I do understand, that probably later on rolling my own solution would make ongoing costs lower. Yeat, Spending all that engineering time with amount of customers I have now -- makes this completely unreasonable.
I like it. Basically a layer on top of Netlify.
P.S. I use netlify and JAM stack regularly.
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