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Poll: Where do you host your static website?

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Re: Poll: Where do you host your static website?

#31
I use a static site generator (Hakyll) and deploy directly to S3. It's a pretty awesome system.

I also used to use CloudFront as a CDN. I gave up because invalidating the cache was a bit tedious. I should start using it again for the assets that usually don't change like fonts. It's really not difficult; it was just inconvenient because I was using it for things like text that I updated constantly.

Re: Poll: Where do you host your static website?

#37

Webfaction++

I struggled to put up a static generator over there I failed, I tried everything I could. Of course they were helpful but asking them to enable this, enable that every time is plain painful.

I also tried to setup ownCloud and didn't succed again. Finally I moved to vps and I set them up there with some difficulty and then I moved my static files back to Dropbox and left OwnCloud. It was too much trouble.

WebFaction ought to give options to do one click install of static generators and other packages like OwnCloud.

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