My HUGO site build time is going to almost one minute whereas people on the HUGO forum told me they were able to locally build the site in 150ms. So when I told them I am using Netlify free tier, they informed me that the free tier purposely slows down the build time. Just wondering if that is true?…

Not true. So, we never slow builds down. We actually want builds in and out of our buildbot as quick as possible because this means we’re using fewer resources and, in turn, this reduces our overheads. Our buildbot has finite resources which serve as a happy-medium with regards to performance and …

Thank you, guess I will have to see why the build is so slow with barely any pages! D:

Slow Build Times on Free Tier?

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Scott July 2, 2020, 10:04am 4

Feel free to share a log! Otherwise, we have this handy dandy guide which can explain the build process a bit better than me

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Build failed due to an internal system error: Build script returned non-zero exit code: 4 Support deployment	9	1985	March 15, 2022
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Increase build time for my website Support deployment	2	28	July 22, 2025
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Buid fail with random reason Support building , deployment	8	747	December 12, 2023

Slow Build Times on Free Tier?

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