Webhost consolidation

I’ve recently been consolidating my websites around a single hosting provider: Netlify.

I’m a small-time hobbyist when it comes to web projects. Most of what I publish is personal, experimental, or just scratching an itch. Because of that, I care far more about friction than features. I want things to be easy, predictable, and hard to break—without feeling like I’m dragging enterprise machinery behind me.

Netlify has hit that balance almost perfectly.

The automatic deployment previews on every pull request are a favorite of mine. They let me iterate in public-but-not-really, catch mistakes early, and generally feel confident shipping half-formed ideas. As my use of GitHub Coding Agent has grown, this workflow has gone from “nice to have” to essential.

I also appreciate how welcoming Netlify is to curiosity. I’ve explored frameworks without committing to them long-term. So far I’ve used Hugo, Astro, Eleventy, and Next.js, alongside a few deliberately simple sites built using ChatGPT and deployed straight from a folder. Most of my projects connect to GitHub, but it’s nice knowing I don’t have to overthink it.

Migrating sites has been pleasantly boring. The hardest part is waiting for DNS to catch up 😂–which is exactly the kind of problem I want to have.

I’ve looked at other platforms, and some of them are genuinely compelling. But Netlify keeps aligning with how I build: small, personal, iterative, and unapologetically non-enterprise. A nice change of pace from work. For now, and likely for a while, Netlify is home.