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Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by 0x3f »

faizshah wrote: post #26

FYI if you want an s3 + CF analogue setup, b2 is integrated with bunny and allows private buckets: https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-integrate-bunny... I haven’t yet worked out the best cheap VPS/dedicated provider though, project for next weekend.

I feel like I've tried many similar combos and there ends up being some tiny, silly, trivial thing that bothers me in the end. For example, I remember fighting with one of them that forced trailing slashes, and another that didn't allow apex domains (i.e. non-www address) for static sites.

I absolutely refuse to actually ship valuable things though so thanks for the suggestion and I'll probably spend some time trying it out.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by xeonmc »

0x3f wrote: post #20
Tepix wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So you can't host commercial projects or anything the GitHub org finds 'icky'. I don't think that's accurate. What's your source?

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github... > GitHub Pages is not intended for or allowed to be used as a free web-hosting service to run your online business, e-commerce site, or any other website that is primarily directed at either facilitating commercial transactions or providing commercial software as a service (SaaS). GitHub Pages sites shouldn't be used for sensitive transactions like sendi…

> sexually obscene content

Ah, so pro-diversity activism websites are out of the question for GitHub then, if not at the moment then definitely in three years time.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by 0x3f »

blargwill wrote: post #29
ozim wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare transfer is inflated. I have personal website via CF that there is no way is having transfer amounts they claim there is.

This is the first time I've read this but have personal experience similar. A few of my single page, gone nowhere, projects are seeing ~2k views a month. They're seeing zero traffic through google in that same period so no idea where it's coming from?

How recently? Because a ton of my current day traffic is LLM scraper activity.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by benmanns »

CrimsonCape wrote: post #27

Can someone ELI5 from the experience of hosting a static site, what is the next step beyond a static CDN? I am guessing the next step is paying for a bucket that that allows virtualized containers to run an OS? Or having a constantly-up node.js backend to generate server-side HTML? Is this essentially the generic description of self-hosting Wordpress on an own server? Does integrating a payment processor like Shopify…

For Shopify in particular, they have a headless front-end services called Hydrogen[0] (with optional hosting called Oxygen). It's basically an opinionated wrapper around the storefront[1] and customer account[2] APIs, which allows interacting with the store from the front-end. It allows you to host Shopify on your own domain under your own control and gives a bit more customization than is available via hosted Shopify. It's what I run for the Creature Publishing site[3] and allows some extra customization for wholesale accounts, etc, without the exceptionally expensive enterprise (Shopify Plus) plan. To be completely honest, sometimes I question the decision over a simple hosted shop subdomain. Some light SSR/API calls are necessary for our setup, which is hosted on Cloudflare Pages/Workers.

[0]: https://hydrogen.shopify.dev/

[1]: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront/latest

[2]: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/customer/latest

[3]: https://creaturehorror.com/

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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blargwill wrote: post #29
ozim wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare transfer is inflated. I have personal website via CF that there is no way is having transfer amounts they claim there is.

This is the first time I've read this but have personal experience similar. A few of my single page, gone nowhere, projects are seeing ~2k views a month. They're seeing zero traffic through google in that same period so no idea where it's coming from?

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Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by toddmorey »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO. I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it…

Wait I don’t get it. CF is free for your use case, but you are looking for a cheap CDN? What’s cheaper than free?

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by fatchan »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO. I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it…

I would hope the invoice is 0 for that amount of traffic.

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by jrm4 »

Hey, so, as an old-timer (who has paid for regular old hosting for almost 30 years) whats going on here?

Specifically: Is it that a whole lot of you are deploying things that require the heavy lifting of a CDN -- or is it that you're just used to the idea of one out of habit?

Re: Trifold is a tool to quickly and cheaply host static websites using a CDN

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Post by jazzyjackson »

jrm4 wrote: post #39

Hey, so, as an old-timer (who has paid for regular old hosting for almost 30 years) whats going on here? Specifically: Is it that a whole lot of you are deploying things that require the heavy lifting of a CDN -- or is it that you're just used to the idea of one out of habit?

It's the rock bottom prices. I converted a rails app to 140,000 prerendered static pages and uploaded to cloudflare and as long as I'm under 1 million visits a month it's free.
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