Hosting · replacement recipe

Frontend hosting

Replaces Netlify. 3 ways out. Best: Cloudflare (free tier) (switch vendor), about $58 saved in year one.

Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. No verified migrations yet. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

What you use

  • Git push deploys
  • Deploy previews
  • Serverless functions
  • Custom domains and SSL

Not covered

  • Form handling
  • Edge CDN
  • Split testing

Check before switching

  • You only rely on: Git push deploys, Deploy previews, Serverless functions, Custom domains and SSL
  • Export your data from Netlify before canceling

Agents: get_recipe("replace-netlify") on the Stackcut MCP server.

3 ways out, best first

Switch vendorCloudflare (free tier)Saves $58 in year one
$9/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $108/yr · payback 5.6 mo
1 seat. If your use fits the free tier (Free DNS, CDN, SSL, DDoS; Workers 100k requests/day).
Covers 100% of the core features
Cloudflare Pages/Workers free tier; Workers Paid $5/mo.
Sources: netlify.comcloudflare.com
Switch vendorGitHub Pages (free tier)Saves $58 in year one
$9/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $108/yr · payback 5.6 mo
1 seat. If your use fits the free tier (Free for public repos; usage limits apply).
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Deploy previews, Serverless functions)
Free static hosting; no functions or forms.
Sources: netlify.comdocs.github.com
Open sourceCoolifyCosts $1,352 more in year one
$9/mo today → $5/mo + 2 h upkeep · setup 4 h
1 seat. Self-host on your own VPS; free software.
Covers 75% of the core features (not: Serverless functions)
Self-host on your own VPS; free software.
License: open_source
Sources: netlify.comcoolify.io

More Hosting recipes

All 63 recipes · Savings leaderboard