Is Free plan reliable enough for a client project and does it use CDN? Why isn't there a cheaper paid plan for very small projects? about ask-netlify HOT 5 CLOSED

All the information about this should be on the pricing page. Specifically, free plans use the CDN and have a bandwidth limit of 100GB/month, with a surcharge of $20/100GB/month for overages. If you want the 99.99% uptime guarantee, you’ll have to get the $500+/month enterprise plan. However, if you check out their status page, you’ll see that they rarely have downtime.

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Thanks for answering.

I will leave the question open in case anybody wants to contribute with their personal experiences or other more specific answers.

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@marinoguerieri Great question. I'm happy that this issue is still open.
I can see another downside of the free plan:

In Netlify's terms of service it reads: "While we always make an effort to communicate clearly and well in advance if we decide a particular website project is not a good fit for our Free Usage Tier, we reserve the right to disable or remove any website project on Netlify’s Free Usage Tier without notice at our sole discretion."

That's pretty scary if you are hosting anything else than fun/experimental projects, but rather websites for businesses.

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I asked about this in the Netlify forum and the reply from the community manager was: As long as the site doesn't violate the Acceptable Use Policy they won't take down the site. This applies for all plans probably.

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Hey there! With the release of our revised Pro plan now starting at $19/mo/seat, I'll close this issue.

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