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Mine's built with Hugo locally, then pushed to Azure Storage and fronted with Azure CDN. I already have a VM in Azure and host dynamic content on it, so it was a route of lowest pain to click some buttons and add a few cents to the bill while getting global caching, free SSL certs, and some CPU cycles back on the VM to host Jisti for the family :)
I was able to include a custom header rule in the CDN to keep my X-Clacks-Overhead running too.
+1 for HUGO
+1 for an X-Clacks-Overhead...
Now.sh does too much for me, and always try to build on their server, so it is out.
GitHub Pages is slow to update, and has rate limits.
I don't like Surge.
So, what is left for me is Netlify, Firebase Hosting and Amazon's, but I haven't tried Amazon much. Also, Netlify has good community, so I go with Netlify.
Haven't touch Netlify CMS, though; although I have tried to manage one myself. You might eventually need a CMS.
About CMS, I think Hasura is probably good.
I'm using Contentful CMS and it works pretty well cause you can integrate it in the form of webhooks to trigger deploys in Netlify for example.
For personal projects I choose Now by Zeit.co/Vercel. Great support and easy to get setup. For proper deployments I use Amplify. It has the full AWS ecosystem and you get access to lots more services and it's easy to implement authentication.
Linode here! Inexpensive, high quality service, haven't had a problem with them once in all the years I've been using them. They not only host multiple static sites for me, but also my mail servers. There are plenty of pre-defined images you can spin up, or else just start with a blank LAMP and do things yourself. (By the way, consider using my referral code if you sign up with them.)
As to domain name, I recommend Gandi.net. They're the oldest, most reliable, and most secure registrar out there, and their prices are at least as good as any other ICANN registrar.
Two options I really recommend nowadays:
With Google Cloud Run you have to set up a build pipeline to build a Docker image and push it to the Container Registry and release to Cloud Run automatically, but this is not a lot of work, and you can use Travis-CI, Google Cloud Build (120min/day for free, afterwards really affordable), etc. to take care of it automatically.
Cloud Run isn't "serverless", but nothing really is, there's just varying degrees of what control you have over the servers in question. In case of Cloud Run it uses Dockerized containers and Google takes care of automatic scaling, load balancing, fault recovery etc. completely. For most use it's going to be incredibly cheap, as long as you're not hosting like big video assets and such there and have significant traffic.
Oh and in case of GitHub Pages I typically still use some tool like Hugo, Gatsby, or something and Travis-CI to build and release the results to GH Pages.
GH Pages sounds like a doable option! I'm wondering; do you deploy the "public" build folder in a separate repo or keep it in the same repo?
Sometimes separate, mostly the same and just use
gh-pagesbranch, depends a bit on what I want from the end result - if you don't use custom domains GitHub Pages hosting can lead to very funky URLs sometimes unless you deploy to specially named repos.Can we use CDN for the app running in the cloud run?
Can you elaborate more about google Run and CDN costs
My static website is built with Pelican and published on Github pages behind Cloudflare. Basically, free, simple and easy.
I've put it up on Apache and S3 before, but I figured, why not put it all on Github and then I don't have to worry about it.
You als configured cloudflare to handle the caching? I think that github pages deploys to Cloudfront?
You have to use a custom domain, but yes. Cloudflare gives me SSL and caching. I haven't seen any slowness, and updates show up in seconds.
One hundred score on Page Insights. 😁
I've tried both Netlify and Surge to host a simple static page. I ended up with Surge because it was easier to setup https without having to move DNS servers.
Never heard of Surge but it looks quite ok 👌! What about the caching performance of Surge?
I am using Cloudflare to manage DNS so it takes care of the caching as well :) And since they provide you with SSL out of the box, in order to use https on your Surge site all you have to do is include a
CNAMEfile containinghttps://www.your-site.comoh sweet! do you have a link to your site?
Its meeloform.com, but nothing to see yet :)
I started a small project last week and was looking for the easiest/fastest way I could have a static site hosted somewhere. It will be a simple LP for the app that i'm building.
I host all of my sites with DigitalOcean. I love the flexibility and clear pricing. You could host multiple static sites on 1 server and add CloudFlare for free as a CDN.
If I had to choose from the list, I would go for GitHub Pages.
Build with GitHub actions to avoid build cost. I'm nonwhere near their bandwidth limit. But would blow through build minutes without building outside netlity. Just push to some sort of build/prod/gh_pages branch then point netlify to that branch with no build command.
I've liked Now by
ZEITVercel, but they constantly throttle my builds on their Hobby plan due to Dependabot sending a huge amount of pull requests to my Gatsby repository.I've been looking into migrating to Netlify since they have interesting build plugins and lately began supporting incremental builds with Gatsby sites. You can also skip builds by matching a Git commit pattern which saves those precious build minutes.
firebase works well. + use cloud shell for remote editing & cloud build for CI
I use Cloudflare directly using workers, and it costs $5 a month for unlimited sites.
developers.cloudflare.com/workers/...
My monitoring on a very low-traffic site where a cache hit is not that likely suggest a reasonable global response rate of 160 ms in Europe, 210 ms in America, and 270 ms in the Asia-Pacific region (Measured using AgentSlug.com). The global reach is high and the cost low compared to having a single VM in Europe. However, the local latency is more elevated than local traffic to a local datacenter.
There are two small drawbacks:
I would have liked more straightforward controls over headers, and their default script is very "functional," so I find it harder to read and modify than it should be.
Cloudflare's policy is a bit ambiguous on other content types than HTML. Although their intent is clear to use their cache for web-pages and not a file or video-server, their language should be more precise. I do proxy Google cloud functions that produce JSON and such through Cloudflare to get the same origin on everything, and it would be better to be explicitly allowed to do so :-)
I've been playing with fast.io - seems good
So many services to choose from 😱. Getting stress from picking one. What attracts you to fast.io?
Mainly the fact that deployment can be literally as easy as copying files from one folder to another on my local machine. Also incredibly fast to get up and running
I currently use Netlify for my personal portfolio page. I had it hosted on Zeit (now called Vercel), but changed it when I discovered Vercel's CEO is apparently against the lockdown, which is sad.
Could you give a link to that comment about the lockdown? Haven’t been able to find it through searching.
For web apps, I've used Netlify, but for my personal site I just use GitHub Pages. Understandably, it takes some time to refresh, but that's fine with me.
Netlify has the simplest build+deploy workflow I have ever seen! Definitely doesn't get easier than that.
Yes netlify definitely has the easiest setup.
I am a big fan of Netlify and the team running the platform up there. Use Netlify if your static site has a complex build.
I can host static site on Netlify via mobile easily. How to host static site on Surge via mobile?
I checked their website and it seems you can easily deploy through your CLI. So this something that can be automated with github actions.
As I had already a running a root server for years, the decision where to host was easy. The site is generated with Nikola and synced with a simple rsync command configured for nikola deploy.
Zeit because of SSR support to Nuxt(and Next)
For my personal site, I use github pages. My site doesn't have a huge crowd, so I am not concerned about rate limiting. For my recipes site, I use netlify.
Usually I will for Firebase for global CDN, fast and low cost, and I setup CI/CD for ease of deployment. So far the cost still at $0.