Ask HN: How do you deploy and host your static website?

#1

Post by sp_one » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 12:13 PM UTC

We've went from using Amazon S3 (with Cloudfront) to Netlify.com, mostly due to convenient features like deploy hooks, cache invalidation and advanced redirects.

Unfortunately they've fallen short in providing sufficient support for an issue we've been facing, so we're curious to see how other people have their hosting and deploy workflow set up.

Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy and host your static website?

#2

Post by jgowans » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 1:59 PM UTC

An alternative option is Aerobatic [https://www.aerobatic.com].

Git push CD, staging branches, automated builds, free self-renewing wildcard SSL certs, versioning, and many other features [https://www.aerobatic.com/features/#features-comp]

disclaimer: I'm one of the founders

Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy and host your static website?

#3

Post by brudgers » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

Curious as to what the issue was since that might help people make more informed recommendations.

Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy and host your static website?

#4

Post by sp_one » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 5:58 PM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #3

Curious as to what the issue was since that might help people make more informed recommendations.

Don't want to throw them under the bus (as they do have a really awesome product), but anyway: our site simply didn't load in Safari. Worked in any other browser though. Tried a plethora of fixes and workarounds, but in the end it was blackbox to us (as we don't have access to any logs). Support was rather unresponsive (haven't heard from them in 2 weeks), but I imagine this is due to them being swamped with tickets.

Re: Ask HN: How do you deploy and host your static website?

#5

Post by brudgers » Tue, Jun 07, 2016, 6:48 PM UTC

sp_one wrote: post #4

brudgers wrote: post #3

Curious as to what the issue was since that might help people make more informed recommendations.

Don't want to throw them under the bus (as they do have a really awesome product), but anyway: our site simply didn't load in Safari. Worked in any other browser though. Tried a plethora of fixes and workarounds, but in the end it was blackbox to us (as we don't have access to any logs). Support was rather unresponsive (haven't heard from them in 2 weeks), but I imagine this is due to them being swamped with tickets.

Curious if the site works in Safari from S3. Which is a round about way of wondering if maybe it's a broken deployment or build rather than a hosting issue. That might explain, but perhaps not excuse, the lack of responsiveness.