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Re:Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Applicatio... by StavrosK on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @03:07PM (#18178906)
It's as difference from that as Dropbox is from mounting an NFS share on your computer.
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Re:Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Applicatio... by tathougies on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @11:23PM (#18181722)
Could you elaborate on the difference here? Mounting an NFS share is almost universally easier, in my experience.
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Re:Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Applicatio... by d3sandoval on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:58AM (#18183990)
/woosh

I think the commenter is referring to this infamous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Applicatio... by tathougies on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:18PM (#18188991)
Haha... I wasn't on Hacker News then, so I beg your forgiveness :)

That's funny, but as someone who still does not use drop box, NFS shares seem a lot easier to me than setting up drop box. I think I tried drop box once but I found it more onerous to log in than to type mount /mnt/nfs , so.... I guess I'm not the target market (and that's okay!).

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Re:Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Applicatio... by sonnyblarney on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:25PM (#18180345)
Could you elaborate? That would be very helpful, the article doesn't quite detail ...
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Re:Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Applicatio... by stavros on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @06:35PM (#18180403)
The end result is the same as hosting on S3 + CloudFront, it just saves you a lot of trouble setting things up, makes things just work, gives you nice features like lambdas, A/B testing, forms, authentication, etc etc for free, and just makes your life super easy.

Basically, if you have a repository with your Jekyll (or whatever) site, just add it to Netlify and that's it. It's served, and will automatically update when you push.

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Re:Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with Applicatio... by ams6110 on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @09:57PM (#18181421)
I have a Hugo site on github pages, and it's updated whenever I push. And no Netlify in the middle.
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