Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by craigkerstiens » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 10:45 AM UTC

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

#2

Post by damian2000 » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 11:09 AM UTC

Nice, but what about a mail server on your custom domain? I think its not that easy according to this post anyway ... http://xtargets.com/2010/10/04/using-gmail-for-email-on-a-he...

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by johtso » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 11:50 AM UTC

This is a much cleaner way of serving static sites on Heroku: http://kennethreitz.com/static-sites-on-heroku-cedar.html

Using this technique you can even use .htaccess files.

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 12:01 PM UTC

Heroku for a static site? Sounds like overkill. On my VPS I just do this:

1. Have public git repo, clone on server

2. Run nginx pointing to htdocs folder in git repo

3. When I want to deploy, ssh in and git pull

Works just fine. Sure, it's a public site on GitHub, but I could just as easily run a git server.

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by darkxanthos » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 12:34 PM UTC

Doing it with Sinatra w/ no routes and just using the public folder seems easier IMO but the php method another commenter mentioned sounds like the best! I'll be doing that from now on methinks.

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by programminggeek » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 12:46 PM UTC

You know, static hosting works really great on Amazon S3, as long as you don't need a .htaccess file. On all of my jekyll sites I use S3 now and there's even a jekyll-s3 gem that makes pushing your site up to S3 painless. The nice thing about using S3 is you don't have to wait for Heroku instance start up if it's not a high traffic site.

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #4

Heroku for a static site? Sounds like overkill. On my VPS I just do this: 1. Have public git repo, clone on server 2. Run nginx pointing to htdocs folder in git repo 3. When I want to deploy, ssh in and git pull Works just fine. Sure, it's a public site on GitHub, but I could just as easily run a git server.

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Re: Static Sites on Heroku

#8

Post by tuananh » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 12:56 PM UTC

I use toto to host my blog on heroku.

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by tomwalker » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 1:00 PM UTC

programminggeek wrote: post #6

You know, static hosting works really great on Amazon S3, as long as you don't need a .htaccess file. On all of my jekyll sites I use S3 now and there's even a jekyll-s3 gem that makes pushing your site up to S3 painless. The nice thing about using S3 is you don't have to wait for Heroku instance start up if it's not a high traffic site.

I am using S3 also and it is surprisingly easy. For a small site the cost is close to nothing.

Re: Static Sites on Heroku

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Post by mnutt » Sun, Jun 03, 2012, 1:13 PM UTC

damian2000 wrote: post #2

Nice, but what about a mail server on your custom domain? I think its not that easy according to this post anyway ... http://xtargets.com/2010/10/04/using-gmail-for-email-on-a-he...

Adding MX records for gmail and adding A records / CNAMEs for Heroku are pretty much orthogonal. They shouldn't conflict with each other.