How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
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Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#2I had a problem with Github user pages for the past few months: It stopped building.
At first I was more than happy that for every commits, I can see the changes immediately, but after few days, it just keep showing the old build. I even started a fresh new accounts and setup a new user page, same thing happened. I tried many things to make it work, adding/removing CNAME, changing the page content, even waiting for few days, no luck. Tried to contact the Github team (via Twitter and the Contact Us page), no respond.
Now I am using my shared VPS to host a static site, waiting for some good news about build reliability, until then I wouldn't recommend using Github user pages.
Oh and by the way, if you set a CNAME, you wouldn't be able to access your project pages without adding it as a submodule into your user page.
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#3I had a problem with Github user pages for the past few months: It stopped building. At first I was more than happy that for every commits, I can see the changes immediately, but after few days, it just keep showing the old build. I even started a fresh new accounts and setup a new user page, same thing happened. I tried many things to make it work, adding/removing CNAME, changing the page content, even waiting for f…
I put up a static page a couple of weeks ago with no issue. Granted, I'm not using Jekyll and just generating the static files on my own locally before committing / pushing.
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#4I had a problem with Github user pages for the past few months: It stopped building. At first I was more than happy that for every commits, I can see the changes immediately, but after few days, it just keep showing the old build. I even started a fresh new accounts and setup a new user page, same thing happened. I tried many things to make it work, adding/removing CNAME, changing the page content, even waiting for f…
I put up a static page a couple of weeks ago with no issue. Granted, I'm not using Jekyll and just generating the static files on my own locally before committing / pushing.
I'm using Pelican as a static blog engine, had no issue at first, this happened after the number of commit grow.
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#5I miss Geocities
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#6I had a problem with Github user pages for the past few months: It stopped building. At first I was more than happy that for every commits, I can see the changes immediately, but after few days, it just keep showing the old build. I even started a fresh new accounts and setup a new user page, same thing happened. I tried many things to make it work, adding/removing CNAME, changing the page content, even waiting for f…
wow very weird, I haven't had any issues like this
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#7I miss Geocities
You know what? Me too. I miss Geocities and I never realized until just now.
That was a great internet. The people's internet. I was 13 years old but I was allowed to make a website for free, with no help or direction from parents or teachers or anyone, with barely anything to learn.
And when I was done it was there. It was a thing I made on the internet and I could show anyone. And I did, and it was probably embarrassingly bad, but that's not the point.
I think more than anything in my career, services like Geocities inspired me.
See the internet? You can make it. You can do this stuff. It's not that hard.
Nobody else in my life told me that. Nobody explained to me that creating things on a computer wasn't magic, and if I wasn't enticed with such an easy website creator I may have never known.
What do I give my kids? What do I give my little cousins, right now, at the age of 10, that even comes close?
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Looking around there seem to be a few, but they're all so template-centric that I wonder if I'd feel the same way if I had them back then.
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#8I miss Geocities
You know what? Me too. I miss Geocities and I never realized until just now. That was a great internet. The people's internet. I was 13 years old but I was allowed to make a website for free, with no help or direction from parents or teachers or anyone, with barely anything to learn. And when I was done it was there. It was a thing I made on the internet and I could show anyone. And I did, and it was probably embarra…
I think "view source" is one of the best features in web browsers.
It's nice that anyone can peek behind the curtains and see that web pages aren't magic.
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#9I had a problem with Github user pages for the past few months: It stopped building. At first I was more than happy that for every commits, I can see the changes immediately, but after few days, it just keep showing the old build. I even started a fresh new accounts and setup a new user page, same thing happened. I tried many things to make it work, adding/removing CNAME, changing the page content, even waiting for f…
wow very weird, I haven't had any issues like this
Hmm, strange symptoms. I haven't any issues like this. I've been using github pages + CNAME + gh-pages as project pages together for over a year without any issues whatsoever. Didn't have to worry about submodules either. Not sure why you're into these issues, kecebongsoft. I've used Jekyll as well as plain old html. I'm sorry you've had issues like this but I wouldn't discourage people from trying it either.
Re: How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github
#10Github pages is a fantastic service. I use it as an automatic archive for a daily mailing list: https://github.com/simon-weber/the-listserve-archive.
Basically, Github is my free host, database and api.