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I built my own simple static site generator in ~150 or so lines of Ruby. It's a fun thing to do. That kind of inspired me to start a simple static website host
by programminggeek 11y ago
I built my own simple static site generator in ~150 or so lines of Ruby. It's a fun thing to do.
That kind of inspired me to start a simple static website hosting service which is still in beta: http://www.statichosting.co/ http://www.statichosting.co/
I've tried all the other hosting options, and they are fine. I just never fell in love with any of them, so I made my own with a couple friends.
If you are interested in trying the beta, please sign up. We'll be opening it to more sites soon.
- quicksilver03 11y agoThis is interesting, but even for a beta you should explicitly tell prospective customers about the limitations of your service: - how big are the zip files they can send? - any limitation on the outgoing bandwidth? - will the static websites be public or will it be possible to configure some sort of basic authentication? - etc. (I'm sure you get the idea)
- programminggeek 11y agoExcellent points. I don't have all the answers to those questions. This is the best I got for now: - I think the zip file size is nginx configurable and it's set to like 4 or 8 MB right now. - I don't have any bandwidth limitation at the moment, but if someone has a very high bandwidth site or wants to use the service to host/share files I'd have to cap those users somehow or maybe just charge more. - Right now they are public, but I'd be willing to explore basic auth if that's a requested feature. In general. We are making a service that we want to exist and are trying to do the best for whoever decides to show up. Thank you for those questions, I am too close to the product to even realize what people might ask, but those all seem obvious in retrospect.