Netlify lost my trust a year ago when they tried to increase our company's pricing more than 10x

Is there a “back to the basics” company or offering for hosting static sites that is essentially what Netlify was when it launched?

Sounds like they behaved exactly how you expected them to. You can't get upset because the threshold was passed.

> From my perspective, they were adding features just to find ways to grow revenue. Why else would they add features?

They did this to us as well. And not only this, but they blocked our ability to push new releases until we opted into the new plan. And this literally happened on the day of a major release for our biggest client. It felt like we were being held at gunpoint. We called them and begged them to give us an extension so we could perform the release, and their sales rep treated us like we were the irresponsible ones for not reading the emails they had sent us carefully enough. We've since moved to Vercel and will never use Netlify again because of the way they managed this.

Vercel has betrayed my trust and expectations perhaps more than any other provider. They advertised open standards and then did a bait-and-switch to proprietary systems. They also broke our automated deployment pipeline out of the blue and called it a feature, not a bug. They don’t seem to care much about security, either. [1] If you want “old reliable” that works how you expect it to, with the ease of use of a modern platform, and one that won’t break the bank, my pick would be Cloudflare or Render. 1. https://github.com/vercel/vercel/issues/856