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Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by cloudkj » Wed, May 22, 2019, 2:56 PM UTC

Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains
github.com

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by paulgb » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:08 PM UTC

This is cool, I'm glad somebody built this! I love netlify but I worry about vendor lock-in.

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by blairanderson » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

TL;DR this is an AWS stack with 10 AWS services required to build/deploy a static site with HTTPS/CDN

I will be staying with netlify

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by dlhavema » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:14 PM UTC

Yeah, super cool! Thanks, this was the only part I was unclear about in connecting the domain to the bucket easily..

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by quaffapint » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:15 PM UTC

paulgb wrote: post #2

This is cool, I'm glad somebody built this! I love netlify but I worry about vendor lock-in.

Why do you worry about vendor lock-in with netlify? They host static sites, so you are free to go anywhere. Unless you happen to be using their other services which this doesn't address anyway.

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by jaden » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:20 PM UTC

GitHub pages [0] gives you static sites with HTTPS and a custom domain without nearly as much complexity as this if you're looking for an alternative to Netlify.

[0] https://pages.github.com/

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Post by vnglst » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:20 PM UTC

blairanderson wrote: post #3

TL;DR this is an AWS stack with 10 AWS services required to build/deploy a static site with HTTPS/CDN I will be staying with netlify

And, if I’m not mistaken, it’s also missing the 1-command-deploy-a-completely-new-version-but-also-keep-the-current-one feature.

It’s still a cool project though, since it shows exactly how many problems Netlify solves for us

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by morenoh149 » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:22 PM UTC

great job! I wish more projects have 1-click deploy to Heroku, aws, gcp or azure. This is a good habit more people should get into.

Running this project on aws can give a cloud beginner an interesting way to expose them to many concepts. Now I just have to figure out what static website I want to run in this!

Please do the same for running your own scalable wordpress install!

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by tamalsaha001 » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:22 PM UTC

How is this any different from Firebase hosting? We have been using it for a while with no problem. Also comes with a very generous free tier.

Re: Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains

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Post by gvand » Wed, May 22, 2019, 3:24 PM UTC

Nice project.

As an aside, I genuinely wonder under which circumstances a CDN will be useful for a static website nowadays. I have a static website that has been on the HN homepage a few times and got picked up by the Chrome mobile recommendations and a nginx/https with slightly tweaked configuration never had a problem handling the traffic even on the smallest DO droplet.

Edit: Thanks for these replies.