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Lektor on Netlify - A Step-By-Step Guide
Build sites with Lektor and host on Netlify with continuous deployment
5 Bulls**t Reasons Not to Use a Static Generator
Calling out arguments against static sites
9 Reasons Your Site Should Be Static
Is a static site right for you?
Top Ten Static Website Generators
A list of the top ten static generators for building your next website
How to Shop With Static: Open Source eCommerce with Flatmarket
Hosting a Static eCommerce Site built with Flatmarket on Netlify
A Step-by-Step Guide: Phenomic on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host Phenomic sites on Netlify
Developing with ReactJS: An Interview with Gatsby's Kyle Mathews
GatsbyJS creator Kyle Mathews talks about his love for developing with ReactJS
Make Your Site Faster with Netlify's Intelligent CDN
Why Netlify uses a dual-CDN setup, and why you should, too.
Installing Your Own SSL Certificates: A Step-by-Step Guide
A step-by-step guide to securing your site with a custom SSL certificate.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Cactus on Netlify
A guide to building and hosting a site created with Cactus on Netlify.
Interview with Thomas Reynolds, Creator of Middleman
Thomas Reynolds talks to Netlify about Middleman, Git and developing with modern web tools.
Interview with Parker Moore from Jekyll
Parker Moore chats with Netlify about Jekyll, development and the future of static web tech.
Go Static Without Losing Your Server
Sam Deere of Giving What We Can talks about the reasons behind the non-profit's switch to the static stack, and how they are using Netlify to do it in stages.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Nanoc on Netlify
A short tutorial on the static site generator Nanoc and how to host it on Netlify (+continuous deployment).
A Step-by-Step Guide: Punch on Netlify
A short tutorial on how to set up Punch in continuous deployment on Netlify, with assets on GitHub
Interview with Geoff Kimball of ZURB Foundation
ZURB's Geoff Kimball talks Foundation 6, Panini and Gulp
An Interview with Wade Warren
An interview about the value of static sites and CDN hosting with VP of Platform Engineering @ Wikia that serves 36,000 http requests per second.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Gatsby on Netlify
A short guide to help you set up Gatsby on Netlify with continuous deployment.
A World’s First. Free SSL with Let’s Encrypt
A World’s First. Free SSL with Let’s Encrypt. From today HTTPS is a free one-click setup on all our plans
DDos Postmortem, 2016-01-13
Followup on the last days distributed denial of service attacks against our infrastructure.
This Weekend's DDoS Attack and What's in a (C)Name?
Your DNS Setup can have a great effect on performance and DDoS resilience.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Assemble on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Assemble.
Star Wars Gone Static
3 Star Wars themed sites on Netlify. Because of course.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Metalsmith on Netlify
A short tutorial on the static site generator Metalsmith and how to host it on Netlify (incl. continuous deployment).
A Step-by-Step Guide: GitBook on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Gitbook.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Docpad on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Docpad.
Zapier Integration with Netlify
Use the Netlify Zap on Zapier to set Netlify events to trigger notifications in other services.
Netlify News No. 8
Netlify is now on Zapier, please check out the beta app. We're also introducing smarter redirects + more control over your postprocessing.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Ember on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host Ember on Netlify.
What is the JAMstack?
If you are deploying to Netlify you are a JAMstack engineer. JAM (Javascript, APIs and Markup) is just a simple terminology around the new way of making web projects.
Smashing Magazine: Static Website Generators Reviewed: Jekyll, Middleman, Roots, Hugo
Our CEO Matt Biilmann compares 5 modern site generators; Hugo, Jekyll, Middleman & Roots.
ReactCasts
Our lead frontend developer, Cassio Zen wrote the book on react.js. Now he also started a Youtube channel for React tips and tricks.
NATS & Netlify Webcast
Our head of infrastructure Ryan Neal, helped NATS with a webcast on how Netlify use NATS for our Microservices Data Control Plane.
JAMstack San Francisco Meetup
San Franciscos biggest JAMstack meetup. Great presenters that often include the authors of the biggest buildtools and site generators, like Webpack and Jekyll, and tons of others that all talk about Modern Web..
Smashing Magazine: Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing
Our CEO Matt Biilmann writes on why modern site generators will power the internet of tomorrow.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Wintersmith on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Wintersmith.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Hosting Exposé on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a site built with Exposé - A simple static site generator for photoessays written in Bash.
Control Your Post Processing
Now Netlify gives you detailed control over the post processing we do to your sites.
Domain Aliases–as Many as You Like
With our new domain alias feature, you can easily point several domains or subdomain to the same site.
Netlify News No. 7
Netlify now 1 stop for all your prerendering needs, multiple domain aliases supported & testing your build locally easier than ever!
A Step-by-Step Guide: Jekyll 3.0 on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Jekyll 3.0.
Introducing Smarter Redirects
We just made Netlify’s redirect engine smarter, to avoid chained redirects.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Hexo on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Hexo.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Brunch on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Brunch.
A Step-by-Step Guide: Roots on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Roots.
Netlify News No. 6
HTTP2.0 supported! Also new CDN PoPs, Canonical URLs & more!
A Step-by-Step Guide: Middleman on Netlify
A step-by-step guide on how to host a website built with static site generator Middleman.
Our Fifth Newsletter
Plans and prices made much easier, with continuous deployment and support integrated in hosting plans.
Continuous Deployment
Automatically build and deploy every time you push to git. All part of Netlify.