Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
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Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#2Bit surprised to see this advertised as 3 hours (how long can it take to dump HTML into a gh_pages branch & push?). After reading, I see that there's a huge overhead in setup and configuration. The complexity seems way out of line with the result!
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#3As far as I know, Github pages doesn't support https for custom domains [1]. A better option for free hosting would be netlify, which supports Let's encrypt for custom domains.
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#4Or you can just use Gitlabs pages which can handle Hugo generation for you. I do that and I definitely did not spend so much time by it. I can also add new posts directly from Gitlabs UI, which is nice.
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#5As far as I know, Github pages doesn't support https for custom domains [1]. A better option for free hosting would be netlify, which supports Let's encrypt for custom domains. [1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156
We use cloudflare on our Github pages custom domain, so you can easily get https support that way.
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#6As far as I know, Github pages doesn't support https for custom domains [1]. A better option for free hosting would be netlify, which supports Let's encrypt for custom domains. [1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156
We use cloudflare on our Github pages custom domain, so you can easily get https support that way.
It is exactly what the article author suggests in fact:
> Github pages does not offer secured custom domain name. The best way to get this feature for free is to use Cloudflare.
[The article then proceeds on how exactly do that.]
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#7As far as I know, Github pages doesn't support https for custom domains [1]. A better option for free hosting would be netlify, which supports Let's encrypt for custom domains. [1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156
It's also worth noting that you can just toss cloud-flare in front of it to get HTTPS.
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#8Its not self-hosted if you rely on Github for hosting.
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#9As far as I know, Github pages doesn't support https for custom domains [1]. A better option for free hosting would be netlify, which supports Let's encrypt for custom domains. [1] https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156
+1 for Netlify. It's like GitHub pages but with all the features you've ever wished it had.
Re: Building a fast, secured and free static site in less than three hours
#10Bit surprised to see this advertised as 3 hours (how long can it take to dump HTML into a gh_pages branch & push?). After reading, I see that there's a huge overhead in setup and configuration. The complexity seems way out of line with the result!
Looks like it's all mainly to do with the static site generation though. You can certainly still dump some handmade html into a gh-pages branch and have a (non-generated) static site in less than ten minutes.