As of last September, Netlify uses “credits” to measure hosting use. On their free tier, I get 300 credits each month. Each deployment—as far as I can tell, every time I update the site whether it’s for adding a whole post, or making a tiny edit—costs 15 credits. That means I can make 20 changes to my blog each month for free.
It’s actually slightly less than that because there are tiny bits of usage for traffic and other boring hosting miscellany that, at my scale, don’t matter. I’m only noting this because:
- It’s interesting and a new concept to me.
- I’m rapidly burning credits during this transition because of the many small updates I’ve made without fully realizing what they cost.
- Since I’m updating my Food page, I’m batching this short post as part of that change so I don’t waste credits.
The only time I’ve added more than twenty posts in a month was during Blogmas in 2022, so I’m not worried about this long term. But it is a strange feeling knowing I technically can’t edit my site willy-nilly. It will at least encourage me to proof read even more closely.