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I have my startup with them and pay them a hefty bill

… I have my startup with them and pay them a hefty bill. I had my personal websites on a second account (that should have been a free plan - one deploy every three years, next to zero traffic), and they deleted them and continue to bill me. I've had multiple customer service interactions asking them to stop billing me and they're nothing short of rude and unhelpful. "We've told you the dozens of steps to take to get us to stop billing you" kind of responses from their top CS head. (Paraphrasing that quote, though I'm sure "we told you" is verbatim). I think I tripped their janky system up when I started scaling one of my personal projects into a startup. I converted my personal account into my business account and moved my personal websites into a new account. This totally botched their system. The thing that gets me is how unhelpful they've been in dealing with the matter. It's not like any of this is my fault. As soon as I get bandwidth to take my startup elsewhere, I'm gone and I'm never looking back. It's amateur hour over at Netlify. They're downright unpleasant to deal with. …

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Heroku has been an absolute dumpster fire. Every time their name comes up I can't help but mention that they deleted my account for inactivity, but have still been charging my credit card. No easy way to cancel because... they deleted my account.

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I have been mulling over switching from Netlify to Vercel for a while for my personal site too. Netlify has weird defaults for everything. It caches almost nothing by default. I had to create a Netlify headers file to tell them that actually yes I would like my CSS, JS, and fonts cached. Absolutely absurd I had to do that. Even for font files. Because as we all know, the font files change so often that we should never cache them /s All manner of dumb things like this. Really the only thing keeping me on Netlify is that it has for handling built in. That and fear of changing DNS settings (I use Google domains).

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I’ve always thought positively about Netlify. About to launch my startup there as well. I was thinking about using their identity and access plug-in to build out member access only pages. Would Render have this capability? Or any other non-code recommendations?

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