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Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

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Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

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Post by kristianp »

tyingq wrote: post #19
PuffinBlue wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any time I hear 'Heroku' it's mentally followed by that 'it's going to be expensive' intake of air sound. Is that prejudgement borne out in reality?

$7 a month for the hobby plan doesn't seem that terrible. But, serving static assets from Ruby seems heavy handed. You also end up writing code for things other environments would handle with configuration...like redirects, cache headers, and so forth. Also, while $7 isn't a lot, it is a little more than other solutions in this hobby level space. The suggestions for Netlify and Firebase seem better ideas for static c…

You can use Go with Heroku, with a buildpack [1]. There's a free plan, but it doesn't include SSL.

[1] https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-go

Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

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Post by tyingq »

kristianp wrote: post #21
tyingq wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$7 a month for the hobby plan doesn't seem that terrible. But, serving static assets from Ruby seems heavy handed. You also end up writing code for things other environments would handle with configuration...like redirects, cache headers, and so forth. Also, while $7 isn't a lot, it is a little more than other solutions in this hobby level space. The suggestions for Netlify and Firebase seem better ideas for static c…

You can use Go with Heroku, with a buildpack [1]. There's a free plan, but it doesn't include SSL. [1] https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-go

The free plan also "sleeps" after inactivity, right? I assume that means a really long page load for the visitor that follows the inactivity? And, you're still left implementing caching, redirects, etc, in a language (Go or Ruby) vs configuration directives.

Just seems a poor option compared to other choices, at least for static content.

Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

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Post by nodesocket »

Heads up Google Cloud just release a new feature today which allows you to redirect traffic to different storage buckets and even VM instances using simple rules which are themselves stored in a storage bucket.

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/us...

Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

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Post by tapirl »

tyingq wrote: post #8
tapirl wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

app engine static files are dispatched by google cdn network for free. CloudFront is not free.

I think the OP is subverting the CDN functionality since the static assets are flowing through the golang code.

not flowing through, it is redirecting. The static files are really served by google cdn.

Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

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Post by tyingq »

tapirl wrote: post #24
tyingq wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the OP is subverting the CDN functionality since the static assets are flowing through the golang code.

not flowing through, it is redirecting. The static files are really served by google cdn.

I don't think so. See his code:

    http.ServeFile(w, r, "static/"+r.URL.Path)

Re: Use App Engine and Go to Host a Static Website with Same Domain Redirects

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Post by tapirl »

tyingq wrote: post #25
tapirl wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

not flowing through, it is redirecting. The static files are really served by google cdn.

I don't think so. See his code: http.ServeFile(w, r, "static/"+r.URL.Path)

ok, he could use google cdn in fact.
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