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'''Netlify''' is a [[San Francisco]]-based–based [[cloud computing]] company that offers [[Internet hosting service|hosting]] and [[Serverless computing|serverless]] [[Platform as a service|backend]] services for [[web application]]s and [[Static web page|static websites]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=McKemie|first1=Ashley|last2=Rydhan|first2=Sarfaraz|date=2020-02-21|title=How to Build JAMstack Ecommerce Store - BigCommerce & Netlify|url=https://www.netlify.com/blog/2020/02/21/building-a-jamstack-ecommerce-storefront-with-bigcommerce-netlify/|access-date=2020-04-05|website=Netlify|language=en}}</ref>

The company provides hosting for websites whose source files are stored in the [[Version control|version control system]] [[Git]] and then generated into static web content files<ref group="b" name="cr">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NFLDgAAQBAJ&pg=155|title=Working with Static Sites: Bringing the Power of Simplicity to Modern Sites|last1=Camden|first1=Raymond|last2=Rinaldi|first2=Brian|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]]|year=2017|isbn=9781491960943|___location=[[Sebastopol, California|Sebastopol]]|pages=155, 177}}</ref> served via a [[Content Delivery Network]].<ref group="b" name="xpt">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=riBBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT79|title=blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown|last1=Xie|first1=Yihui|last2=Presmanes Hill|first2=Alison|last3=Thomas|first3=Amber|publisher=[[CRC Press]]|year=2017|isbn=9780815363729|series=The R Series|___location=[[Boca Raton, Florida|Boca Raton]]|pages=79|author-link=Yihui Xie}}</ref><ref group="b" name="xag">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=octmDwAAQBAJ&pg=207|title=R Markdown: The Definitive Guide|last1=Xie|first1=Yihui|last2=Allaire|first2=Joseph J.|last3=Grolemund|first3=Garrett|publisher=[[CRC Press]]|year=2018|isbn=9781138359338|series=The R Series|___location=[[Boca Raton, Florida|Boca Raton]]|pages=207|author-link=Yihui Xie|author-link2=Joseph J. Allaire}}</ref> Given the limitations of the purely static model, the company later expanded services to include [[Content management system|content management systems]], and features of [[serverless computing]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/20/netlify-wants-to-make-it-easier-for-web-developers-to-use-aws-lambda-event-triggers/|title=Netlify wants to make it easier for web developers to use AWS Lambda event triggers|last=Miller|first=Ron|date=March 20, 2018|work=[[TechCrunch]]|access-date=October 5, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref> to handle websites with interactive features.<ref name='Deutscher2020'/>

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== Products ==

=== Netlify CMS ===

[[File:Netlify CMS dashboard.png|thumb|[[Netlify CMS]] dashboard.]]

To address some of the [[Static web page#Disadvantages of a static website|limitations]] of static websites, which tend to be less sophisticated and harder to use for the [[Webmaster|website maintainer]] than a dynamic content publishing solution such as [[WordPress]] or [[Medium (website)|Medium]], Netlify develops its own [[Open-source software|open source]] [[Headless content management system|headless]] content management system called Netlify CMS.<ref name="cr" group="b" /><ref name="Finley 2018" />