Successive deploys?

[MentallyRetired]

Is it possible to configure Netlify to successively upload files?

For example, I have a site that generates 49,000 pages every time it builds. It’d be nice to only generate the files that have updated. Why go through the process for all of those pages to only really have 1 (or a few) that changed?

I guess the build would need some way to tell Netlify that it’s a successive upload and not to delete anything, only add/update.

Anyways, is this possible right now?

[perry]

hi there,

this might be an interesting read:

[Support Guide] Making the most of Netlify's CDN cache

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 Our CDN derives much of its efficiency from files whose checksums don’t change between deploys. For instance, in a blog, you usually write or update one article in one file, while the rest of the content remains unchanged. In this typical use case, we don’t need to re-upload and re-process these files, since our CDN already has them stored - no checksums have changed except the one file. This also means that your visitors’ browsers don’t need to …

as well as this:

[Support Guide] How can I optimize my Netlify build time?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 If you are interested in learning more about how our bots approach building sites, these three articles are a great place to start: How our Build Bots build sites The last major upgrade to our build environment and perhaps least-loved but most useful, how to debug your builds So you might think, it’s great that Netlify builds every commit from my repos…but isn’t that a bit wasteful? The answer is, it depends, but we can at least give you…

let me know if you have more specific questions

[MentallyRetired]

Hi Perry, thanks for getting back to me. I think I’ve come to realize the issue is not in generating the pages anymore, but in uploading them. I made a post here: Large site upload timing out?