The Netlify Alternative for Static Sites and Frontends Without Credit Meters
Netlify moved to credit-based billing: Free is $0 with 300 credits, Personal $9 with 1,000, Pro $20 with 3,000 and unlimited members, and bandwidth costs 20 credits per GB, about $0.13, with compute, requests and even production deploys metered in credits (netlify.com/pricing, 31 October 2026). A Dokploy server hosts as many static sites and frontends as it can hold for a fixed $9.58 a month, with 1 TB of transfer included, and MassiveGRID PaaS is the managed route.
Why teams leave Netlify
Netlify's pricing page on 31 October 2026 lists Free ($0, 300 credits), Personal ($9 a month, 1,000 credits), Pro ($20 a month with unlimited members, 3,000 credits) and Enterprise by quote, with usage charged in credits: 20 credits per GB of bandwidth (about $0.13 per GB at the Pro pack rate), 10 credits per GB-hour of compute, 2 credits per 10,000 web requests and 15 credits per production deploy. The page does not publish the old bandwidth and build-minute allowances any more.
For a static site that is a fair model until it is not: a popular documentation site or a launch day burns credits on bandwidth and requests, and a team that deploys thirty times a day spends credits on deploys alone. The complaint is the same as with Vercel, predictability, with the extra twist that credits are one step removed from dollars.
Netlify features and what replaces them
| On Netlify | Dokploy equivalent | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Static site deploy from Git | Dokploy Static build type (Nginx-served) or Nixpacks with a publish directory; Auto Deploy on push | Included |
| Deploy previews | Preview Deployments per pull request | Included |
| Custom domains and HTTPS | Traefik with Let’s Encrypt per domain; www redirects under Advanced, Redirects | Included |
| Netlify Functions | A small Node.js (or any language) application on the same server behind its own path or subdomain | Included, no invocation meter |
| Redirects and headers (_redirects, netlify.toml) | Traefik middlewares (redirects, headers, HSTS) from the application’s Advanced tab | Included |
| Netlify Forms | A self-hosted form backend deployed as a Compose stack or template, posting to your own database | Included, needs setup |
| Netlify Identity | A self-hosted identity provider deployed as a Compose stack or template | Included, needs setup |
| Global CDN | Cloudflare (or another CDN) in front of the server | Cloudflare free tier |
| Analytics | Umami or Plausible templates, cookie-free | Included |
| Many sites in one account | Many applications and domains on one server; Starter holds dozens of static sites | One flat price |
What Netlify does better: an edge network that serves every static file from near the visitor, forms and identity with no setup, and nothing to maintain. If your sites are tiny and your traffic modest, the Free or Personal plan may be the right answer.
Two routes off Netlify
There are two honest routes off Netlify, and the right one depends on how much operating you want to do.
Route 1: Dokploy on a VPS you own
A free, open-source dashboard on a MassiveGRID server preset for Dokploy: Git push deployments with webhooks, preview deployments for pull requests, automatic HTTPS through Traefik, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB and Redis as services with scheduled backups, scheduled jobs, rollbacks, a web terminal and a template catalogue of 500+ open-source apps. The server is the whole bill, $9.58 a month for the 2 vCPU, 4 GB Starter preset and $39.60 for the 4 vCPU, 8 GB Growth preset on dedicated cores, and MassiveGRID installs Dokploy for you on request. Coolify is the same route with a different dashboard; the self-hosted PaaS page compares the two with CapRover and Dokku.
Route 2: MassiveGRID PaaS, managed
If leaving Netlify must not mean running anything, MassiveGRID PaaS deploys from Git or a Docker image onto a platform we operate, with vertical and horizontal scaling, a 100% uptime SLA, a marketplace of one-click packages and usage billing from $2.46 per cloudlet-month. It costs more than a bare VPS and less than the managed platforms per unit of resource, and there is no server to patch.
Migrating a static site or frontend from Netlify to Dokploy
- Create a Dokploy application from the repository with the Static build type: set the build command (
npm run build) and the publish directory (dist,build,outorpublic, whatevernetlify.tomlnamed). Create the domain on port 80, which is what Dokploy's Static build type serves on. - Translate redirects and headers from
_redirectsornetlify.tomlinto Traefik redirect and headers middlewares in the application's Advanced tab; a framework router handles client-side routes, and the Static build servesindex.htmlat the root. - Move functions into a small Node.js application in the same project, routed on
api.yourdomainor a path, and point the frontend at it. - Forms and identity: deploy self-hosted replacements as Compose stacks, or keep a third-party form service if the volume is small.
- Add the Umami template for analytics if you used Netlify Analytics.
- Point DNS at the server (Cloudflare in front if your visitors are global), confirm the certificate, and remove the site from Netlify after a week.
Dozens of Sites, One Fixed Price
Starter (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 64 GB NVMe) holds dozens of static sites and a few frontends with their APIs for $9.58 a month with 1 TB of transfer; Growth adds room for previews and a database. Dokploy is free and installed on request.
A documentation site, a marketing site and an app frontend, side by side
| Netlify Pro | Dokploy on MassiveGRID | |
|---|---|---|
| Plan | Pro $20 a month, 3,000 credits, unlimited members | $0 |
| Bandwidth | 20 credits per GB (about $0.13); 3,000 credits is roughly 150 GB if spent on bandwidth alone | 1 TB included, 2 TB for $1 more |
| Production deploys | 15 credits each | Unlimited |
| Functions compute and requests | 10 credits per GB-hour, 2 credits per 10,000 requests | Included on the server |
| Three sites plus an API | Credits shared across them | $9.58 Starter, flat |
| A busy launch month | Extra credit packs | $9.58, unchanged |
Netlify figures from netlify.com/pricing on 31 October 2026; the dollar equivalents are Netlify's own Pro-pack rates.
One Command, Full Platform
SSH into your new MassiveGRID server and run this command. Dokploy will install Docker, set up Traefik, configure SSL, and launch the dashboard automatically.
Requires a fresh server with Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 12, at least 2 GB of RAM and 30 GB of disk, and ports 80, 443 and 3000 free. The installer needs root access and sets up Docker, Traefik and all dependencies.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Questions from teams moving static sites off Netlify.
Every site you own, one monthly price
Static sites, frontends and their APIs on a server from $9.58 a month with 1 TB of transfer, on a Proxmox HA cluster with a 100% uptime SLA and a 15-day money-back guarantee. Dokploy installed on request.