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Netlify Alternatives

Weighing your options? Checkout these 11 alternatives that could help you accomplish your goal.

Why teams look for a Netlify alternative

The usual reasons are concrete: the free tier runs out of build minutes or bandwidth, the project needs a backend or a long-running process that a static host cannot run, or the frontend has to sit next to the rest of the infrastructure in AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or DigitalOcean. Buddy has a dedicated action for each of these destinations. The push-to-deploy workflow stays the same, only the upload target changes.

Netlify alternatives you can deploy to from Buddy

  • Amazon S3 - static files in a bucket, served through CloudFront. You pay for storage and traffic only, with no build-minute quota. The CloudFront action invalidates the cache after each upload.
  • Google Cloud Storage - the same bucket model as S3, inside Google Cloud, with Cloud CDN in front.
  • DigitalOcean Spaces - S3-compatible storage with a built-in CDN, the cheapest option when the backend already runs on DigitalOcean. The DigitalOcean CDN action purges the cache after deployment.
  • Firebase - the action runs Firebase CLI commands, including firebase deploy to Firebase Hosting. The natural choice for apps that already use Firebase Auth or Firestore.
  • Cloudflare - put Cloudflare in front of any of the buckets above and let the action purge the zone cache after every deployment.
  • Vultr, UpCloud, Azure App Service - when static hosting is no longer enough and the app needs a VM or a managed runtime.

Example: deploy a static site to Amazon S3 and CloudFront

The pipeline below builds the site in a Node.js container on every push to main, uploads the output to S3 and invalidates the CloudFront cache. Replace the integration name, bucket and distribution ID with your own.

yaml
- pipeline: "Deploy static site"
  events:
  - type: "PUSH"
    refs:
    - "refs/heads/main"
  actions:
  - action: "Build"
    type: "BUILD"
    docker_image_name: "library/node"
    docker_image_tag: "22"
    commands: |-
      npm ci
      npm run build
  - action: "Upload to S3"
    type: "AMAZON_S3"
    integration: "my_aws"
    input_type: "SCM_REPOSITORY"
    local_path: "dist"
    bucket_name: "my-site-bucket"
    acl: "PUBLIC_READ"
    deployment_excludes:
    - "node_modules/"
  - action: "Invalidate CDN cache"
    type: "CLOUD_FRONT"
    integration: "my_aws"
    distribution_id: "E1A2B3C4D5E6F7"
    purge_all: true

Buddy uploads only the files that changed since the previous run, so a typical update finishes in seconds. The same pipeline can be started by a push, a schedule, a manual click or an AI agent working in a sandbox.

Staying on Netlify but building elsewhere

If the problem is build time rather than hosting, keep Netlify and move the build to Buddy. The Netlify action uploads a ready-made build with the Netlify CLI, so Netlify build minutes stay unused and you can run tests, Lighthouse checks or visual tests before the site goes live.

  • Azure App Service

    Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft that allows developers to develop, deploy and manage their applications. Azure utilizes virtualization technology to emulate functions of a real CPU in a virtual machine but on a massive scale. Azure provides a wide array of services that include computing, analytics, storage and networking solutions.

  • Azure Storage

    Azure storage is a recent addition to Microsoft Azure Cloud. In similar fashion to Amazon S3 or DigitalOcean Speces, Azure Cloud Storage provides a durable, secure and highly scalable object storage for Azure virtual machines.

  • Heroku

    Heroku is one of the first cloud platofrms that allows developers to store and run their cloud on virtualized containers (called 'dynos' here). Heroku supports code written in Node, Ruby, Scala, PHP, Go, Java and Clojure. You can also run any other language using Heroku's custom buildpacks.

  • Rackspace

    Rackspace Inc. is a US-based cloud computing platform that is designed for better management of public and private cloud deployments across multiple cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and OpenStack. Rackspace has multiple data centers operating across the globe: USA, UK, Australia, Hong Kong just to name a few.

  • Shopify

    Developed in Canada, Shopify is one of the largest e-commerce platforms offering its users entire suite of solutions for easy online shop creation. In Shopify you can create your store and host it, but also manage your products, inventory and payment methods.

  • UpCloud

    Upcloud is European-based cloud service provider that boasts offering one of the fastest servers with 100% uptime SLA. Thanks to their intuitive control panel and a solid API the configuration and management time is reduced to a minimum. Upcloud also offer s wide range of open source API-clients and tools.

  • Vultr

    Vultr, developed by David Aninowsky and owned by Vultr Holdings Corporation. Is a Cloud service offering a wide range of hosting and computing solutions for developers. Mostly used for their reliable, fast, and fairly cheap Virtual Private Servers (or VPS for short).

  • Amazon S3

    Amazon Single Storage Service (or AWS S3 for short) is, simply put, a cloud storage. Part of Amazon Web Services, S3 offers a scalable object storage infrastructure with high availability, very low latency and over 99% SLA (Service-level Agreement) durability.

  • Google Cloud Storage

    Google Cloud Storage (or GCS for short) is a powerful, cost effective and object-oriented way to store any amount of data.. Data is stored as an "object" - an immutable unit that can consist of any file. Objects are stored in buckets which are then connected to projects (which can be organized even further into organizations).

  • DigitalOcean Spaces

    DO Spaces is an ojbect-oriented storage that creates a cheap and stable way of storing and transferring huge amounts of data. DigitalOcean is a US-based cloud infrastructure provider. DigitalOcean offers Linux-based virtual private servers (also called "droplets") in 12 different data center regions. DO can be managed using a web interface or DOCTL command line.

  • Firebase

    Firebase is a mobile and web app development platform created by Google. In essence, it is a real-time database where the data appears as JSON files, which allows for changes in real-time that greatly enhances developing cross-platform applications.