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Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Re: Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Post by StavrosK »

After I discovered Netlify, I'm kind of thinking "why bother". It's free, I just push to my repo and they take care of all the building/publishing/hosting/CDNs, and they're very responsive for support and have high availability. I'm a very happy customer (or rather leech, as I don't pay anything).

Re: Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Post by charlieegan3 »

StavrosK wrote: post #2

After I discovered Netlify, I'm kind of thinking "why bother". It's free, I just push to my repo and they take care of all the building/publishing/hosting/CDNs, and they're very responsive for support and have high availability. I'm a very happy customer (or rather leech, as I don't pay anything).

We use Netlify and find there are quite often (every few weeks) outages and caching issues.

Re: Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Post by _sdegutis »

charlieegan3 wrote: post #4

I've recently setup a similar system for my personal site (middleman) but opted to use code pipeline - this way I don't need to pay for the EC2 instance. Terraform config here: https://github.com/charlieegan3/personal-website/tree/master...

I use a free EC2 micro instance and a custom Node-based SSG, and it feels snappy and is always up: https://sdegutis.com source: https://github.com/sdegutis/sdegutis.com

Re: Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Post by PuffinBlue »

charlieegan3 wrote: post #3
StavrosK wrote: post #2

After I discovered Netlify, I'm kind of thinking "why bother". It's free, I just push to my repo and they take care of all the building/publishing/hosting/CDNs, and they're very responsive for support and have high availability. I'm a very happy customer (or rather leech, as I don't pay anything).

We use Netlify and find there are quite often (every few weeks) outages and caching issues.

I don't think this is fair.

Checking my monitoring logs I have 26 minutes of downtime attributable to Netlify since 03 March 2017. That's about 99.994% uptime.

If I attribute every single outage. That is 43 minutes since 03 March 2017, though some of those were not Netlify errors, but even so, if we are uncharitable/inaccurate and attribute them to Netlify that works out to 99.98% uptime.

Not bad for a free service.

They're also very transparent about service issues:

https://netlifystatus.com/

And support is very responsive. I recently talked to them about deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for instance, or providing the option to force TLS 1.2 if users desired. They were quick to respond and helpful.

So if you are seeing unusual issues, get in touch with them, even if you're a free user they'll still talk to you.

Re: Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Post by [deleted] »

charlieegan3 wrote: post #3
StavrosK wrote: post #2

After I discovered Netlify, I'm kind of thinking "why bother". It's free, I just push to my repo and they take care of all the building/publishing/hosting/CDNs, and they're very responsive for support and have high availability. I'm a very happy customer (or rather leech, as I don't pay anything).

We use Netlify and find there are quite often (every few weeks) outages and caching issues.

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Re: Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Post by steveklabnik »

StavrosK wrote: post #2

After I discovered Netlify, I'm kind of thinking "why bother". It's free, I just push to my repo and they take care of all the building/publishing/hosting/CDNs, and they're very responsive for support and have high availability. I'm a very happy customer (or rather leech, as I don't pay anything).

I am a recent convert to Netlify and I love it. A++. I have never had SSL on my personal website because doing so is such a hassle; not only does everything Just Work, but getting that set up was trivial.

Re: Jekyll Static Web Hosting – Deployment Pipeline on AWS

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Post by berlam »

Interesting setup. I found myself looking for a static site deployer a few months back and decided to build my static website with hugo [1] and deploy it from my private GitHub repository with the help of github-bucket [2]. So far it is working fine and I can even move away from GitHub and even AWS with just a few modifications.

The c9 setup is really nice for online page editing and to compile the static pages. I am not quite sure, if I would really use it in my current workflow.

Disclaimer: I am the author of github-bucket.

[1] https://gohugo.io/ [2] https://github.com/berlam/github-bucket

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