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Re: Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Wed, Jan 08, 2014, 5:02 PM UTC

nilved wrote: post #49

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MediaCrush hosts our blog [1] on GitHub pages, and we proxy it [2] with nginx to add SSL. [1] https://blog.mediacru.sh [2] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/blob/master/config/... And the pages: https://github.com/MediaCrush/mediacrush.github.io

Why not just host it yourself then? You can get precompiled gzip and sane caching. The only reason I can think of to use GitHub Pages is not wanting to pay for a proper host.

Two reasons:

Deployment. It's easy as pie to deploy GitHub pages.

Open-source. MediaCrush itself [1] is open-source, and we wanted the blog to be open and well tuned for pull requests and such.

[1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

Re: Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

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Post by lectrick » Wed, Jan 08, 2014, 5:09 PM UTC

I am a little surprised that it took them this long to go to a CDN, actually

Re: Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

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Post by nilved » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 2:46 AM UTC

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #61

nilved wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just host it yourself then? You can get precompiled gzip and sane caching. The only reason I can think of to use GitHub Pages is not wanting to pay for a proper host.

Two reasons: Deployment. It's easy as pie to deploy GitHub pages. Open-source. MediaCrush itself [1] is open-source, and we wanted the blog to be open and well tuned for pull requests and such. [1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

Having used GitHub Pages, S3 and my own VPS for hosting, a homebuilt host is by far the easiest. rsync is easier to use than git, which is a million times easier to use than S3.

I might go so far as to say that storing compiled HTML on git is an antipattern, but that isn't to say that you can't mirror the generator and posts on GitHub.

Re: Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

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Post by ksec » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 4:59 AM UTC

lectrick wrote: post #62

I am a little surprised that it took them this long to go to a CDN, actually

They used different CDN previously ( MaxCDN i believed it was ), now they changed to Fastly.

Re: Faster, More Awesome GitHub Pages

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn » Thu, Jan 09, 2014, 7:03 AM UTC

nilved wrote: post #63

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two reasons: Deployment. It's easy as pie to deploy GitHub pages. Open-source. MediaCrush itself [1] is open-source, and we wanted the blog to be open and well tuned for pull requests and such. [1] https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush

Having used GitHub Pages, S3 and my own VPS for hosting, a homebuilt host is by far the easiest. rsync is easier to use than git, which is a million times easier to use than S3. I might go so far as to say that storing compiled HTML on git is an antipattern, but that isn't to say that you can't mirror the generator and posts on GitHub.

Well, I would use git anyway because I want it to be under version control. I'm intimately familiar with git and I consider it no harder than rsync. There are so many benefits offered by version control that I wouldn't dream of doing it with something like rsync alone.