Features
Performance
Netlify is an ultra performant platform with nodes all over the world, the world's fastest DNS service, instant cache invalidation and much more. Put your site on Netlify and watch your conversion rates skyrocket because of instant loads.
Global CDN
We have nodes across the globe to keep latency down. Utilizing our multilayered CDN we provide a scalable, globally consistent, fast version of any site.
Ultra Fast DNS
We provide the fastest DNS service available. It is globally aware so that no matter where a request comes from, all requests are routed to the nearest nodes.
High Availability
Our global, multilayered CDN is setup so that slow or failing nodes are seamlessly removed. Top to bottom, our infrastructure is redundant, to make sure we keep traffic flowing.
Atomic Deploys
Atomic deploys push your site to our CDN in its complete, updated state. Your newest version is immediately available everywhere, with the safety of a instant rollback one click away.
Instant Cache Invalidation
Our custom control CDN allows us to set the state of the site in around 1 second. Releasing or rolling back a site no longer faces caching problems. Instant global consistency is in our DNA.
Scale
Netlify scales with your site. Whether it's a personal blog or a huge multilingual site with 20,000 pages, dozens of adminstrators, and a whole array of buildtools and frameworks connecting to all kinds of APIs, Netlify is your platform of choice. And best of all? You always only pay for what you use. No need to overprovision for hosting.
Infinite Scale
Seamlessly grow from a personal blog to an international phenomenon. Our global CDN ensures your site is always as fast as greased lightning, regardless of load.
Complex Site Support
Using intelligent caching, updating your site is painless. We upload only files that have changed, minimizing the time spent waiting for 1000s of pages to upload.
Automated Hosting
Our developer tools make it easy to create, deploy and automatically manage thousands of unique sites. Our philosophy is the more sites, the merrier.
Asset Fingerprinting
By fingerprinting assets, we ensure that the current version of your site is globally consistent. Gone are the days of wondering what site people see.
Geo IP/Language Redirection
Our global CDN supports complex internationalization rules. One DNS lookup will always serve your site in the correct language. Redirects occur at CDN level so you take zero performance hit.
Gradual Migration
Using Netlify’s advanced redirect rules, incrementally migrating to Netlify is safe and simple and without affecting performance.
Atomic Deploys
We view your site as a whole, not a bunch of pages. When pushing a change to your site live without Atomic Deploy you’re pushing files live one-by-one, which could lead to missing assets, broken links or dropped connections as your new version loads. Avoid periodically broken sites with Netlify, where all deploys are atomic.
Unlimited Snapshots
We keep snapshots of every version of your site so you can track changes and revert back to any point in time, with just the click of a button.
Security
Performance and scale means nothing without security, which is why Netlify offers it all, from free automated SSL and HTTP2 as default, to instant password protection and secure build environments.
Free One-Click SSL
We believe in security. We generate, deploy and manage unique SSL certificates for each site with just, all completely free.
Certificate Rotation
We automatically renew and deploy new SSL certificates, taking the pain out of Certificate management.
HTTP2
Full support for the next generation web protocol, built for better performance and more efficient asset loading.
Secure Build Environment
Our build environments live only for the duration of the build. Combined with a build cache, we ensure that each build is fast and fully isolated.
DDOS Protection
As part of custom plans Netlify offers advanced DDOS protection and mitigation via several partnerships.
API Origin Protection
Netlify offers advanced Origin Protection. A site hosted on a CDN is protected from malware, but it can still be vulnerable to both DDOS and attacks on any APIs used. This service uses a new way of whitelabeling benign traffic at CDN level. Keep your API safe while filtering out bot traffic and never lose performance!
Automation
Let Netlify automate your workflow. The separation of frontend and backend opens up a whole new world of possibilities. But it also means a lot of manual work, manually integrating and managing different tools and processes. Until now.
Git Integration
Netlify pairs naturally with Git. If you use GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket or just your own private repo, we let you pull, change and push to manage your site.
Automated Builds
Leave the build boxes to us. Continuous deployment is as simple as telling us how and what to build. Then rapidly deploy your site with standard git commands.
Inbound Webhooks
Trigger builds with a POST request to integrate with external APIs, schedule builds of your site or trigger rebuilds from a Google Spreadsheet.
Outbound Webhooks & Integrations
Set up any number of outbound webhooks. Receive email or Slack notifications for new form submissions, deploys or build failures.
Secure Build Environment
We never store any GitHub tokens on our servers, and your builds are run in a completely locked down environment.
Cached Dependencies
Dependencies (rubygems, npm, etc.) are automatically installed and cached between builds to keep build time down.
Instant Cache Invalidation
One of the problems with releasing a new site is that you never know if a user is viewing a cached version. Netlify invalidates the cache instantly, serving only the intended version across the globe. Never wait to see a live version again.
Versioning & Rollbacks
Each lightweight deploy is treated as an immutable snapshot of the site. Rolling back as far as you’d like is just a matter of clicking the version you want live.
Dev Tools
Netlify is the most full featured platform of its kind, with tons of dev tools to make life easier for the professional coder.
Multiple Environment Support
Support multiple environments (e.g. dev, staging, prod) with a simple argument. Each environment can track a git branch, providing isolated environments for experimentation.
RESTful API
Netlify is completely designed around a RESTful API. Manage, query and deploy a site all using simple HTTP calls.
Native Clients
Don’t feel like writing the HTTP calls? We have native clients in Javascript, Go and Ruby.
JavaScript Injection
Add Google Analytics, retargeting codes or any other script you want straight from the web UI.
Redirect, Rewrite & Proxy Rules
Use different rules to control how requests are handled. Proxy part of your traffic to your own backend, redirect old pages, or rewrite a page entirely. Or do them all.
Custom HTTP Headers
Take full control over any HTTP header sent by Netlify. Easily add CORS or Content Security Headers to your site.
Full Featured CLI
Setup, query and deploy without taking your hands off the keyboard. The CLI is a very powerful way to do everything from launching a new site to rolling back a deploy.
Form Submission Hooks
Netlify supports form submissions for any HTML form on your site and triggers email, slack notifications or webhooks.
Password Protection
We provide simple password protection for a site out of the box. That means that you can launch a site and have coarse grained access with a click or a few keystrokes.
Single Page Apps
Building a modern Single Page App? Netlify is the perfect deployment platform whether you're on React, Angular, Ember or your own homebrewed framework.
Prerendering
Never worry about SEO for your Single Page App again by adding Netlify’s prerendering backend with a one-click setup.
Client-side Routing Support
Setup a simple rule to make your single page app handle routing. This way all requests that don’t match a static file will serve your index file, so your router can handle them client side.
API Proxying
Using the redirect rules, it’s simple to host the site on Netlify while routing all API calls to your own backend. Now, you don’t have to worry about CORS.
Authentication Providers
Let your users authenticate with GitHub or other OAuth2 providers without any backend.
Domain Management
Netlify provides you with complete domain management. Custom domains, subdomains, aliases, DNS hosting and Domain registration all editable from the UI.
Custom Domain
Use your custom domain with any Netlify plan. (The free plan includes our callout in the bottom right corner).
Domain Aliases
Point more than one domain to the same website.
Netlify Subdomain
If you either don’t have a domain or just need to do a test site, use yourdomain.netlify.com
DNS Hosting (NS1)
Netlify includes high uptime ultra-fast DNS hosting, with a simple but powerful DNS panel and full API access.
Domain Registration
Register and manage your domain from within Netlify.
Enterprise
From a dedicated account manager and 24/7 support to private build environments and advanced features, your enterprise needs are taken care of.
Private Build Environment
Never have your build stuck in a queue and get even faster builds by selecting private build environments.
Reseller API Access
As a reseller, you can issue API tokens that provide access to publish to your own instance of Netlify’s API, with very high API rate limits and a setup that doesn’t distinguish between free or paid sites.
World-Class Support
24/7/365 support is available with custom hotline and support mail.
Migration services
Need help migrating from your old site or app to Netlify? A team at Netlify can help you find a smooth path to 10x performance, security and scalability.