Poll: Where do you host your static website? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by kierank » Tue, May 14, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

mng2 wrote: post #33

kierank wrote: post #8

nearlyfreespeech.net

Me too. Large files are served from S3 though (using a CNAME).

Same but css/javascript etc is hosted via Rackspace CDN (Akamai).

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

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Post by einai » Tue, May 14, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

fakeer wrote: post #35

fuzzywalrus wrote: post #28

Dreamhost - but I wouldn't recommend it

Why so? For a shared hosting provider I've read around they are offering pretty good stuff. Anything specific?

I tried them for a year because of the great reviews on Reddit, but I was quite unhappy about it. Less than 99.9% up time monitored by uptimerobot.com. Some of my sites have less than 99.5% up time in fact. I'm monitoring some of my clients' sites on Siteground and they have better up time over there (>99.9%).

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

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Post by urlwolf » Tue, May 14, 2013, 10:11 PM UTC

I use a static site generator (docpad) and deploy to github pages. I've had bad experiences with both, so I'm looking for alternatives. I have my own servers, but somehow I assumed for a homepage gh-pages would be best. I was wrong.

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

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Post by dimzava » Tue, May 14, 2013, 10:46 PM UTC

Middleman + Amazon S3 + CloudFlare. Works great.

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

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Post by iracic » Wed, May 15, 2013, 6:18 AM UTC

openshift

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

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Post by tezza » Wed, May 15, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC

I've been with https://www.blackfoot.co.uk/hosting/plan/ for years.

Decent affordable rates.

It comes in quite useful for side-projects that may be a pain to set up on a VPS

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

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Post by yin » Wed, May 15, 2013, 10:45 PM UTC

Onepager - onepagerapp.com

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

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Post by paperwork » Thu, May 16, 2013, 3:11 PM UTC

sondr3 wrote: post #47

paperwork wrote: post #38

Surprised to see no one mentioned google cloud storage. Similar to s3, but with much lower latency.

How does it work compared to S3/CloudFront? I've been using Jekyll and a VPS but wouldn't mind testing out something like this or S3 for it.

I initially deployed my website on s3 but latency was noticeable. google's cloud storage loads the site instantaneously. There are more tools available to upload to S3 but google cloud storage's web admin now provides a way to upload files now. In order to host a website on google storage, you need to jump through a couple of hoops (proving to google that you own the domain).

My websites are static, single page apps so I leave them on "set it and forget it" mode.

You can test ping times on my site if you like: http://fixparser.targetcompid.com http://datafa.me