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		mi_lk on Oct 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Netlify raises $30M to replace webservers with App... Could someone enlighten me how does Netlify differ from Github pages? If I want to put up a static website, what's the advantage of using Netlify over Github pages?

waivek on Oct 9, 2018 [–]

I use Github pages. I'm not a professional web developer so my take is pretty non technical.

The main difference for me seems to be netlify let's you have input forms and do POST requests whereas github pages is more static and only serves static pages via GET.

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