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Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by erikbye »

kzisme wrote: post #163
positr0n wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like your Travis CI setup, I may copy it myself. Here's the workflow I currently use if the OP wants something with less moving parts. I just use s3_website from the command line. It will even create the s3/cloudfront configuration completely automatically. gem install s3_website ; set up s3_website.yml and AWS environment variables s3_website cfg apply ; this creates and configures the S3 bucket and cloudfront con…

If you're just hosting a static blog website/personal site - is it really worth using Travis on it? I've yet to use it on mine and curious if I should start essentially.

No. People add so much unnecessary overhead and bullshit these days. All you need for static is a push from local to your host with SCP. A one-line script if you include some markdown to HTML, or just use Jekyll and straight SCP that.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by theandrewbailey »

bhauer wrote: post #169
theandrewbailey wrote: post #167

I have a PC in my basement on a nice 150meg fiber connection. I have a dynamic DNS service and client set up, and ports forwarded. At this point, I can do whatever the hell I want (static or dynamic), as long as I don't transfer like 10TB a month. I have Payara (java app server) running my blog down there, and HTTPS courtesy of Let's Encrypt. I looked into running a Open Street Maps server, but it was fairly hard (I…

I wish more geographies had 150 megabit (or even better) symmetric residential service. I will never understand how residential service became asymmetric by default. At my address, the best upload speed I can get is ~5 Mbps, which is utterly embarrassing considering my first DSL connection, in 1999 or thereabouts, was ~1.5 Mbps symmetric. In 17 years, I have only approximately tripled my upload speed. (Frankly, even…

Thanks.

I'm on Verizon FIOS, and it is symmetrical, roughly. It speed tests about 158 down 162 up. How I got that fast was sorta an accident from moving, and rep handling it looked at the deals. I think it was maybe $10 more than the 50meg service I had before.

I see Google Fiber over there, but what I have is nice too, and deployed wider. I also see Comcast's "gigabit" service with it's paltry 35meg upload.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by kzisme »

erikbye wrote: post #171
kzisme wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're just hosting a static blog website/personal site - is it really worth using Travis on it? I've yet to use it on mine and curious if I should start essentially.

No. People add so much unnecessary overhead and bullshit these days. All you need for static is a push from local to your host with SCP. A one-line script if you include some markdown to HTML, or just use Jekyll and straight SCP that.

I figured as such...I just use Github Pages with my own domain, develop on one branch and push changes to gh_pages...and done. Simple and fast.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by agumonkey »

Animats wrote: post #174

I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 and pushing the site to a server as static files. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver 8's static SFTP doesn't work any more, due to some Microsoft-forced change in Windows 7.

Upvoted for nostalgia.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by Animats »

agumonkey wrote: post #177
Animats wrote: post #174

I'm still using Dreamweaver 8 and pushing the site to a server as static files. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver 8's static SFTP doesn't work any more, due to some Microsoft-forced change in Windows 7.

Upvoted for nostalgia.

It beats trying to write HTML via Markdown.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by K0nserv »

user5994461 wrote: post #157
K0nserv wrote: post #68

I use Github to host the source for my blog/website which is open source. Jekyll for the building which happens on Travis CI. Deployment on S3 with cloudflare as a CDN for SSL and reduced bandwidth. I really like this setup. I wrote a guide called The One Cent Blog[0] a while back detailing how it's setup. Typical months the cost is around $0.01-$0.03. Becuase people usually ask why S3 over Github pages I'll answer i…

> Typical months the cost is around $0.01-$0.03. For how many visitors?

Not that many admittedly, about 10k requests from 1.5k unique users in the past month. With that said 10m requests would still only come out at $4 so it's still a good choice for most low traffic sites.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by K0nserv »

erikbye wrote: post #171
kzisme wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're just hosting a static blog website/personal site - is it really worth using Travis on it? I've yet to use it on mine and curious if I should start essentially.

No. People add so much unnecessary overhead and bullshit these days. All you need for static is a push from local to your host with SCP. A one-line script if you include some markdown to HTML, or just use Jekyll and straight SCP that.

To each their own. I actually think this setup is much simpler. I just have to push to git which I'd be doing in any case and it automatically deploys everything. If I were to manually sync I'd both have to remember that and I'd have to figure out a secure way to store the credentials.
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