Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

Post by reificator » Wed, May 22, 2019, 7:27 PM UTC

paulgb wrote: post #69

reificator wrote: post #27

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I'm usually paranoid about vendor lock in, but I can't join you on this one. Netlify assumes a version control repository that you can pull from, run a build step, and then host static files from. The build tools are open source, the output is static and trivial to download and rehost, and the repository is git meaning one clone is all you need to port to any other service. Where exactly is the vendor lock in?

It's not so much my code that is locked in, as that netlify has spoiled me by making deployment so streamlined that it would be hard to go back to manual deployment. This gives me another option, which I appreciate. That's all I meant.

Post by donmcronald » Wed, May 22, 2019, 7:28 PM UTC

rsweeney21 wrote: post #88

triangleman wrote: post #86

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Does the webflow save to a git repo?

Yes. It also provides a really nice UI for building our www site which we like to rev frequently. Webflow is the bomb if you are familiar with HTML and CSS. Super clean HTML, total control over all the css attributes, drag and drop builder.

Post by herbst » Wed, May 22, 2019, 7:43 PM UTC

shshhdhs wrote: post #50

NateEag wrote: post #47

Am 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 disagree with encouraging people to do this. You are not accounting for a CDN here, like the post. A website on the HN front page went down yesterday on a $5 VM. And S3 just holds your HTML files, for super cheap. There’s no lock-in concern there. You can easily migrate to nginx in the future if you really want, but start with S3

Post by rsweeney21 » Wed, May 22, 2019, 7:53 PM UTC

donmcronald wrote: post #93

rsweeney21 wrote: post #88

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Yes. It also provides a really nice UI for building our www site which we like to rev frequently. Webflow is the bomb if you are familiar with HTML and CSS. Super clean HTML, total control over all the css attributes, drag and drop builder.

Is it a completely hosted service? It looks cool, but I'd be reluctant to use it if it's a subscription to an online tool where I have to pay forever. Is there a standalone version of that editor?

Post by donmcronald » Wed, May 22, 2019, 8:00 PM UTC

morenoh149 wrote: post #8

great job! I wish more projects have 1-click deploy to Heroku, aws, gcp or azure. This is a good habit more people should get into. Running this project on aws can give a cloud beginner an interesting way to expose them to many concepts. Now I just have to figure out what static website I want to run in this! Please do the same for running your own scalable wordpress install!