Netlify Build
The Git workflow for web development. Build, deploy, and manage modern web projects.
A fast, resilient network for web apps. Connected to your development workflow and designed to handle the most complex tasks - or even to run your own custom logic.
A global platform with powerful features for managing code and assets.
Distributed just like a CDN, but with advanced functionality for publishing entire sites and applications. Automate builds to prerender content and deploy worldwide to every major cloud provider—including staging, rollbacks, and even A/B testing.
Global distribution with automated prerendering makes for blazing fast site delivery. Smashing Magazine moved to Netlify for a 10x boost in performance.
Publish apps across multiple cloud providers for ultimate reliability. And since apps are prerendered, all edge nodes serve secure, static content with little opportunity for exploit.
Use Netlify Edge Handlers to add custom logic to the network edge for personalizing your web experiences without managing countless page versions and redirects— instantly localize language, serve relevant banner ads, authenticate visitors...and much more.
Connect to Git for instant continuous delivery. Pull requests can generate automatic previews and every branch can be a different staging site. Every deployment is preserved allowing instant rollbacks to any prior state, without rebuilding.
Deploy direct to Netlify Edge to replace production servers, staging servers, deployment systems, and CDN caching.
Go beyond a standard CDN with even less to maintain.
Comparison point | CDN | Netlify Edge |
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Supports static assets | ||
Works without an origin | ||
Can prerender pages / run builds | ||
Git-integrated CI/CD | ||
Deploys | Manual | Automatic |
Rollbacks | Manual | Automatic |
Cache invalidation | Tricky (some risk of stale content) | Instant (no risk of stale content) |
Netlify supports atomic deployment of your sites and apps, allowing you to push sets of changes to frontend code and backend functions together, as a unit, without even requiring a maintenance window.
Cache control on most CDNs is tricky business. On Netlify, every global deploy is an atomic unit representing a state in time of your application. Worldwide caches are updated instantly, supporting richer applications than possible on a CDN. Deploy thousands of times daily without any risk of partial deploys or stale assets.
Global edge nodes all have built-in intelligence to natively serve A/B tests, phased rollouts, or geographic variations. Advance DNS management and network rules support user authentication, per-page routing, and even proxying to multiple legacy applications—all on the same domain.
The Git workflow for web development. Build, deploy, and manage modern web projects.
Run our entire platform right on your laptop. Preview it all — site generation, functions, and edge logic.
A fast, resilient network for web apps. Connected to your development workflow and designed to handle the most complex tasks - or even to run your own custom logic.
Deploy a global scale website in minutes.