Anyone have an a average monthly fee for using these as hosting solution? last time i ran the numbers using all that services go from 5 to 10 USD per month and was better to use amazon lightsail (3.5 per month) or other cheaper alternatives at lowendbox
Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
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Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is there vendor lock-in for static websites, though? Can't you just take your files and go somewhere else?
Yep, you certainly can, which is part of their the beauty. Last I looked, though, you couldn't deploy to S3 without using tools that work specifically with it. I guess it's really not that big a deal, but I prefer the genericness of "I'm configuring a webserver and pushing my files to it." That process can be just about fully automated, even including HTTPS setup if you want that, and then you can use with whatever s…
Depends on the tools! If you're manually copying files, there are clients (e.g. Transmit, which is what I use) that just treat it like any (S)FTP server. If you're using the command line, yeah, you need to use Amazon's CLI, although it's still basically a one-liner to sync the directory you want to publish.
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#113How much should this cost per month in AWS billing for a small static website?
Of course that depends on what kinds of assets you serve and how many hits you get, but to provide a ballpark, I had a small personal site with few media assets on S3, and it consistently cost me US$0.12 per month. I think once it cost me 14 cents and I thought, "Wow, I must've been popular last month!"
I didn't run analytics so I can't say how many hits it got, but traffic was probably fairly average for a personal site.
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#114Am I the only one who still hosts my own static sites on a plain old virtual machine? It's pretty simple to configure nginx for static sites, and by doing it yourself you reduce vendor lockin to just about nil. Even if S3 is massively cheaper, $5/month for a tiny VM seems like a small price to pay for being vendor-abstract. I suppose S3 is way less likely to suffer a meaningful outage than my little VM, but how many…
I do. I'm surprised more don't on hn perhaps it speaks to something bigger.
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#115GitHub pages [0] gives you static sites with HTTPS and a custom domain without nearly as much complexity as this if you're looking for an alternative to Netlify. [0] https://pages.github.com/
Github pages requires a paid account. https://help.github.com/en/articles/githubs-products#github-...
I believe that is only for private repos.
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#116GitHub pages [0] gives you static sites with HTTPS and a custom domain without nearly as much complexity as this if you're looking for an alternative to Netlify. [0] https://pages.github.com/
I feel like Netlify has set the standard in this area now so I'm curious to learn what's different when I see these projects mentioned here.
Netlify is a great tool, my biggest issue with it (and why I continue to use GitHub Pages) is that the "Global CDN" is a cluster of DigitalOcean nodes, which I don't trust as much as e.g. Fastly in terms of performance and reliability.
(Note: that info is from anecdotally looking at Netlify site IPs, I could be wrong)
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#117Looks very similar to my project https://github.com/kkuchta/scarr from a while back. It even uses the same acronym (I assume that's just a coincidence, since we both just picked a cool-sounding english-language word using the initials from S3, Cloudfront, ACM, and ACM. At a glance: - Mine handles domain registration + ACM verification automatically - This one wisely uses clioudformation instead of api calls - This on…
Wow, that is a fun coincidence! Indeed, I was going for a catchy four-letter acronym in the same vein as popular stacks like LAMP or MEAN. Perhaps the fact that we both landed on the same components and permutation of components means that there's something there :)
I also started off in the same manner of implementation - bash scripts wrapping AWS CLI calls - then stumbled upon the more straightforward, template based approach.
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#118How much should this cost per month in AWS billing for a small static website?
Less then $1/month if you've got low traffic. I haven't used this, but I have this type of setup for a static site that uses Hugo.
- S3 costs: $0.10/month
- Route53: $0.50/month ($0.50 per hosted zone)
S3 costs could be lower - I have other buckets with stuff that count towards my cost.
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#119Looks very similar to my project https://github.com/kkuchta/scarr from a while back. It even uses the same acronym (I assume that's just a coincidence, since we both just picked a cool-sounding english-language word using the initials from S3, Cloudfront, ACM, and ACM. At a glance: - Mine handles domain registration + ACM verification automatically - This one wisely uses clioudformation instead of api calls - This on…
Wow, that is a fun coincidence! Indeed, I was going for a catchy four-letter acronym in the same vein as popular stacks like LAMP or MEAN. Perhaps the fact that we both landed on the same components and permutation of components means that there's something there :) I also started off in the same manner of implementation - bash scripts wrapping AWS CLI calls - then stumbled upon the more straightforward, template bas…
Ha, so cool that you both ended up in the same end of the Sphinx! =)
Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like Netlify has set the standard in this area now so I'm curious to learn what's different when I see these projects mentioned here.
I had honestly never heard of Netlify. I thought GitHub Pages was the standard, with S3 static hosting a second (more involved) option. EDIT: Googling suggests Netlify offers a build, deploy, hosting pipeline all-in-one box. Which is substantially more than any of the projects mentioned here. These serve a single purpose - simple hosting of static websites.
GitHub will build for you if you use Jekyll.