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Simply Static is an alternative for self-hosting: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ I'm learning how to then put the static site on a CDN. Are there tools for that, or I would be using just FTP. Thanks.
Could anyone make a list of free-alternatives? Tiresome seeing every little idea turning into a 5 USD a month SaaS-startup.
Is it? The market will make sure that those ideas which are valuable solutions to problems people have will survive (if priced correctly). This means that problem solvers are compensated for their work so they can keep iterating. I don't really understand what your objection could be!
Also, you may want to alleviate some people's concerns about using plugins. The first thing that comes to my mind, would all my existing plugins still work. You'd probably have to try it out and do a test.
Simply Static is an alternative for self-hosting: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ I'm learning how to then put the static site on a CDN. Are there tools for that, or I would be using just FTP. Thanks.
You could just put a CDN in front of WordPress and presto change-o your site is static.
Simply Static is an alternative for self-hosting: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/ I'm learning how to then put the static site on a CDN. Are there tools for that, or I would be using just FTP. Thanks.
You could just put a CDN in front of WordPress and presto change-o your site is static.
I build a lot of Wordpress sites of all types of complexity, including sites that could benefit from being static. My main reasons for likely not using your service would be: You become my new hosting company and that worries me. But more importantly, these 3 selling points "Support for Contact Forms 7", "Instant search out of the box", "Keep using plugins". I now have to vet plugins myself and guess if they are goin…
Many thanks for your thoughts :-) Actually yes, we are a new hosting company, but the live site is hosted an a AWS-S3 bucket with a CDN in front of it, so, even if you don't trust us, I could feel quite safe with it. In my personal experience, I used to have a web agency with dozens of WordPress installation to keep alive, mostly of them where simple “brochure” sites. I used auto-update mechanisms and caching layers…
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Many thanks for your thoughts :-) Actually yes, we are a new hosting company, but the live site is hosted an a AWS-S3 bucket with a CDN in front of it, so, even if you don't trust us, I could feel quite safe with it. In my personal experience, I used to have a web agency with dozens of WordPress installation to keep alive, mostly of them where simple “brochure” sites. I used auto-update mechanisms and caching layers…
Why can't you export the static site and let me host it myself?
1) you still need to have and maintain secure the WordPress Installation somewhere. With HardyPress WP can be paused and restored when needed with a click.
2) you have to download the static version and upload it somewhere else manually (your client certainly can't do it on their own). HardyPress does it with a click.
3) contact forms and search will stop working. With HardyPress, if you use CF7, everything will work seemlessy.
To solve the problems above HaryPress needs to hosts your WP installation.
I build a lot of Wordpress sites of all types of complexity, including sites that could benefit from being static. My main reasons for likely not using your service would be: You become my new hosting company and that worries me. But more importantly, these 3 selling points "Support for Contact Forms 7", "Instant search out of the box", "Keep using plugins". I now have to vet plugins myself and guess if they are goin…
Many thanks for your thoughts :-) Actually yes, we are a new hosting company, but the live site is hosted an a AWS-S3 bucket with a CDN in front of it, so, even if you don't trust us, I could feel quite safe with it. In my personal experience, I used to have a web agency with dozens of WordPress installation to keep alive, mostly of them where simple “brochure” sites. I used auto-update mechanisms and caching layers…
I don't bother anymore. I think your biggest competition today isn't self-hosted Wordpress sites, it's Wordpress.com, WP Engine, Pantheon, GoDaddy Managed Wordpress, etc.
I don't want to seem negative, but I'm having a hard time seeing why I would prefer your system to those. From my perspective the static site generation + services adds complexity, it doesn't remove it. And I'd still have to maintain the Wordpress instance since it provides the backend.
If Wordpress is the backend, then a static copy, to me, just seems like one particular implementation of a caching strategy. I would not expect S3 to serve HTML pages any faster than Varnish, for instance.