Netlify for Hugo & static sites: pricing, free tier, and alternatives

Netlify is a developer-friendly deployment platform that connects to Git repositories, runs builds, and publishes output via a global CDN with atomic deploys and per-PR preview URLs. It excels at hosting static sites built with Hugo, Astro, or Eleventy, and extends functionality through serverless and edge functions. The guide covers Netlify's credit-based pricing, free tier capabilities, and when alternatives like Vercel or Cloudflare Pages may be a better fit.