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Octana + Netlify
Speed, security, capacity. That’s why Netlify is our hosting partner of choice for faster deployment, snappy page load times, and better user experiences.
Why Netlify?
Speed. If you only have an instant to catch a customer's attention, you can't have them waiting seconds for the page to load.
Netlify's Enterprise High-Performance Edge network offers lightning-fast page loads, boosting your customer experience and SEO performance.
Globally-distributed hosting for performance, stability & security
Mainstream cloud hosting environments have a critical limitation — they store your data in one physical location — page requests will often need to travel halfway across the world before being processed. The response then returns via the same route. It's slow, creates a poor customer experience, and is terrible for SEO.
A single location also presents a single point of failure — vulnerable to malicious attacks and natural events or even unanticipated spikes in customer traffic. While you can always back up your site, restoring it isn't necessarily straightforward, and your website could be down for days while you wait.
On the flipside, Netlify has data centers all across the world, and all of them host your website. Data requests from your customers are fulfilled by whichever center is closest, resulting in snappy page load times.
Distributed data centers reduce vulnerability to malicious attacks and natural events. Should one go down for any reason, your website will continue to be served as usual via the other nodes in the network.
Package Octana + Netlify Enterprise
Octana can manage your site hosting through our Netlify account, saving you money and time. Our agreement can provide cost savings in comparison to organizing your own hosting partner. Plus, you deal directly with us — Octana becomes responsible for making sure your website runs as it should. Our package setup reduces IT involvement on your end and streamlines communication. In essence, you pay one bill, you deal with one team.
Our systems and processes are optimized for Netlify hosting — if you choose to integrate with our Netlify partnership, you'll benefit from better out-of-the-box performance and reduced time to go-live.
Why your hosting choice matters
Speed
If your website is slow, customers will leave. Fast.
Typically, top-tier hosting providers require ongoing and increasing investment to deliver (barely) acceptable page load times of 1-2 seconds. This is because every time a customer visits your site, your content must converted from code to the interactive front end your customers see in real-time — rendering. If you don't invest to keep this render time low, your page load times suffer, and customers will leave your site before they've even seen your content.
Netlify does things differently. Rendering occurs when you hit publish, not when a customer visits your website. This means your content is ready to be viewed in an instant — or as low as 40 milliseconds if you want to get technical. Plus, you don't need to keep throwing money at your hosting provider to achieve this.
It might be a technical solution to get your head around, but hosting on Netlify allows us to deliver your content fast, while saving you money. The outcome is really that simple.Capacity
Sometimes, success can be a problem too.
Few things are more gut-wrenching for a marketer than launching a campaign only to find your website can't handle the increased traffic load. Speed and performance decline as more customers arrive, and then the site goes down.
This shouldn't happen, and with Octana + Netlify, it doesn't. Whether there are hundreds of users on your site or hundreds of thousands, Netlify's distributed data centers handle capacity spikes immediately, automatically, and at no additional cost.Security
No one wants security breaches. Netlify's multi-location setup reduces the risk of firewall attacks.Faster development
Netlify's Deploy Previews reduce development time and allow you and your team to view changes to any part of your site without publishing them to production.
Octana + Netlify in action
Raydiant combined Octana and Netlify to manage their site hosting, migrating from their old hosting partner. Their old website primarily used static site generation, however, some features were making real-time calls to the Contentful content API. This mixed setup was beginning to get expensive as their website traffic increased. The Octana team helped them streamline their site, while hosting on Netlify helped increase their page load times.
Additionally, the whole setup is now much simpler for Raydiant — the move consolidated everything into a single contract with Octana, reducing the fragmented nature of the support they were getting from different companies.
See Octana in actionFrequently asked questions
Marketing teams should have the power to design and deliver content on their timeline, under their own steam, with the flexibility to continue optimizing and changing post-launch. That’s why we built Octana — it’s the easiest way to create beautiful websites on Contentful, fast. Sound too good to be true? We’ve got all the answers to your frequently asked questions.
Octana is a Contentful App providing you with a suite of low-code and no-code tools for creating and managing enterprise level websites on Contentful.
Each tool provided within the Octana app designed to alleviate a problem faced by marketers and content creators trying to manage their site on Contentful without developer or agency help. Create entire pages, easily edit content, manage forms and integrations, replicate and reuse content, bulk edit SEO and metadata, plus control your site architecture without needing to write any code. Octana is the easy-to-use enhancement for your website on Contentful.
Getting started with Octana is easy. Our Professional Services team can take you from design to live in a matter of weeks.
Our involvement can be as quick as implementing Octana within your existing tech stack to creating your your entire Contentful site from scratch — including applying branding, setting up custom integrations, and deploying to Netlify, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform or your self-hosting solution. Your site will be ready to start adding content and building pages in as little as 3 weeks using our low-code tools. Plus we give you full training on how to easily build, design, and manage your own content in-house without needing to call in the developers. To get Octana, and start implementing our tools, book a demo.
The Octana Contentful app does not need to store any of your data, everything remains in your existing Contentful Space. In order to use Octana you use your existing Contentful user profile, you do not need to authenticate separately.
The intent is to leverage all the benefits of Contentful's security programme.
Octana is a SaaS tool — an app with an annual subscription fee, that allows you to manage the ongoing maintenance, editing, and creation on your Contentful site. However, we also offer professional services to give you a helping hand as you get started and support you ongoing.
Our professional services team manage the integration of Octana and Contentful, can apply your branding to our toolkit of ready-to-use content assets, manage content migration, and set up bespoke integrations with the rest of your tech stack.
A one-off professional services fee allows you to get going fast then take over the reins yourself using our no-code tools to manage your site and content without having to continually get agency or developer support to make simple changes.
Octana gives you control beyond the initial build.
Building and setting up your site is just the beginning, with Octana, you gain access to a suite of low-code tools built specifically to give marketers and content creators the ability to edit, maintain, and even create on Contentful themselves. This saves the ongoing cost of constantly having to re-engage an agency or developers to implement seemingly small changes that somehow end up costing thousands. With the ability to edit and maintain your own content you can reduce the ongoing cost of your site by as much as 40% simply by eliminating expensive agency retainers. Plus, you can get your ideas to market faster without waiting for an external team to “fit you in.”
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