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Re:The architecture behind a one-person tech startup by sammorrowdrums on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:38AM (#26739252)
Netlify free tier is pretty great, giving custom DNS and support for NextJS build was so simple.

Heroku is similar, but Netlify is at least equally simple I found. Maybe someone else can shed more light on differences.

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Re:The architecture behind a one-person tech startup by selcuka on Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:36PM (#26745855)
Aren't they different products though? Netlify is front end only while Heroku is full stack.
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Re:The architecture behind a one-person tech startup by sammorrowdrums on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:54AM (#26746864)
Well if you're deploying a static site they are the same, but that's still not the whole picture. They have support for lambda style "serverless" functions and Fauna DB[1], and can bundle functions with apps automatically for some tools like Next.js to do server side rendering for dynamic routes[2]. So while they don't support quite the same level of custom stacks, backends and DBs, they do provide tools that enable full stack applications.

[1] https://www.netlify.com/tags/database/

[2] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@netlify/plugin-nextjs

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