Looks just like Surge.sh with free SSL.
Show HN: Staticland – Open source static site hosting with SSL via Let's Encrypt
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#12Looks just like Surge.sh with free SSL.
Definitely similar. I really love surge, and have too many static sites to pay the per-site costs to get SSL.
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#13what's the monetization strategy?
Static site hosting is cheap, and I'm not super interested in competing with other services with per-site costs. staticland is primarily an open source project that I use for my own purposes, and I'm open to building out static site deployment projects that fit a company's specific use case based on staticland.
ok thanks, so have you gotten any interest from companies? Asking because I need to host my static sites somewhere soon but don't want to go somewhere that won't stick around a long time.
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#14I recently started using `now`[0] for hosting my static and small scale sites. While it's mainly targeted for Node apps
/JS, it supports deploying static sites out of the box which free and very easy DNS, SSL setup. It's not free, but still very affordable compared to the benefits.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Static site hosting is cheap, and I'm not super interested in competing with other services with per-site costs. staticland is primarily an open source project that I use for my own purposes, and I'm open to building out static site deployment projects that fit a company's specific use case based on staticland.
ok thanks, so have you gotten any interest from companies? Asking because I need to host my static sites somewhere soon but don't want to go somewhere that won't stick around a long time.
So far not much interest, but this post is also the first time I've done any significant promotion. If you want to go with a really solid static site hosting company netlify.com seems like a great choice. You could also always set up a staticland-api server on your own. Right now I'm using static.land for 12+ of my own sites that I rely on and more on the way, so it's not going anywhere.
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#16Another alternative is to deploy to S3/Cloudfront using Stout (http://stout.is).
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Static site hosting is cheap, and I'm not super interested in competing with other services with per-site costs. staticland is primarily an open source project that I use for my own purposes, and I'm open to building out static site deployment projects that fit a company's specific use case based on staticland.
ok thanks, so have you gotten any interest from companies? Asking because I need to host my static sites somewhere soon but don't want to go somewhere that won't stick around a long time.
It should be simple to move your static sites if this goes away, don't you think? In fact, I can't think of anything simpler.
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#18Another alternative in this space is an AWS Lambda-driven static site editor and publisher: https://github.com/sirceljm/LambdaBlogPlatform
(not affiliated but I know that the author put lot of thought in it)
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#19Clever :-) Glad to see another solution out there!
Myelf -- I've migrated almost all personal and small projects over to a self-hosted dokku instance. All of the static sites run this buildpack: https://github.com/dokku/buildpack-nginx
This has been a real timesaver as dealing with S3 static sites was just a pain. Added bonus is I have more granular control of nginx (if I want it)
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#20what's the monetization strategy?
Static site hosting is cheap, and I'm not super interested in competing with other services with per-site costs. staticland is primarily an open source project that I use for my own purposes, and I'm open to building out static site deployment projects that fit a company's specific use case based on staticland.
So while it may be cheap it's still a cost. Is there a file size limit? What if I statically host CoolLinuxISOs.com? Surely that could end up costly or is it limited in some not identified way? What about handling major traffic from, say, if my website went to the front page of Reddit.com or any other popular website? Can it scale out and handle traffic spikes or even constant traffic?
I get this is more for small / tiny sites and it's really cool I just want to make sure I understand the costs associated.