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Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by nickjj on Saturday November 23, 2019 @05:53PM (#21617161)
I'm pretty close to reaching their free tier's cap on outgoing bandwidth. They only give you 100 GB.

To buy another 100 GB I would have to pay $20 per month (4x as expensive).

Also I don't feel comfortable basing my entire business on Netlify. My blog and course landing pages are how I earn a living. It's the same reason why I don't use GitHub pages. I just don't like the idea of having to adhere to their TOS (even if I'm not doing anything wrong) and also be limited to their free tier's traffic constraints.

I'm sure they are a good company and I wish nothing but the best for them but I just don't see them as a good fit for me given the above.

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Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by JoshMcguigan on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:00PM (#21617431)
How do you view your Netlify usage while on the free tier? Your comment made me curious about my own usage, but I can't see a way to determine my current usage through the Netlify website.
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Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by nickjj on Saturday November 23, 2019 @07:42PM (#21617586)
> How do you view your Netlify usage while on the free tier?

I am not sure. I never used their service. I got my usage numbers from DigitalOcean's dashboard.

But I recently looked at Netlify to host another static site and they mention that 100 GB limit on their pricing page.

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Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by williamjackson on Saturday November 23, 2019 @11:17PM (#21618314)
https://app.netlify.com/teams/<team-name>/settings/billing
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Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by LeonM on Sunday November 24, 2019 @08:16AM (#21620221)
> They only give you 100 GB.

At 100k page view per month, you'll need to serve a 100MB page to reach that limit...

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Re:100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static... by nickjj on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:20AM (#21620889)
According to my DO stats I average ~60 GB per month in outgoing transfer.

I guess it's because I have a lot of photo gallery images of travel trips and they get caught up in image search results. I'm not sure why it's so high to be honest.

It is going to go up quite a lot too because now that I have a podcast, each episode is around ~50MB for the mp3. I might end up putting the mp3s on a CDN in the end. Probably DO Spaces.

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