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I'm working on a static hosting service. We are working on SSL and making that easy. Would you be interested in trying the beta? http://www.statichosting.co htt

I'm working on a static hosting service. We are working on SSL and making that easy. Would you be interested in trying the beta? http://www.statichosting.co http://www.statichosting.co

jswrenn 11y ago
Some feedback: The cost is a non-starter. The main reason I go through the hassle of writing compilers for my websites is that I want them to be long-lived. Presently, I use Nearly Free Speech as my hosting provider. Their pricing scheme for static sites costs me about $2.50/yr and I can maintain an account balance. My $50 account balance will keep my site online for two decades whereas it would buy me only ten months on your service. (Not to mention that Github hosts static sites for free!) To consider another service, it wouldn't just have to beat the cost but instill a sense of confidence that I could trust the service with my data for the foreseeable future. A few features could tip the scales though: - Open ID auth instead of basic access auth - Easy SSL setup (gethttpsforfree.com was recently a huge help) - Inexpensive hosting for a very low-volume mailing list with HTML archives Good luck!
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  You might look into FreeLists [0] for your mailing list needs. [0]: https://www.freelists.org https://www.freelists.org
nathancahill 11y ago
Nice. One way you could distinguish your service from all other options (S3, Github Pages), is to support the history API for single page webapps. I'm hosting a static site on EC2 instead of S3 because I need URLs to fallback to index.html. Literally for this one nginx rule: location / { try_files $uri /index.html =404; } Also, I'd like to try the beta of your service, just signed up. My email is in my profile. Thanks!
- frankthedog 11y ago
  Surge and Firebase hosting both allow for this
  - nathancahill 11y ago
    Dope, didn't find Surge when I was searching. Thanks, I'll switch over to that! Staying away from Firebase after what happened to Parse.
xena 11y ago
Your site doesn't accept connections over SSL.
- programminggeek 11y ago
  I know. We haven't added SSL to our site. That's one reason we are still in beta. My partner and I are finishing up a CLI app and then SSL comes after that. We are hoping to integrate nicely with something like letsencrypt.org, but we don't have a working solution yet. I know from experience that HTTPS setup isn't as easy, nice, or cheap as it should be and we plan to fix that if possible for static sites.

I'm working on a static hosting service. We are working on SSL and making that easy. Would you be interested in trying the beta? http://www.statichosting.co http://www.statichosting.co

jswrenn 11y ago

Some feedback: The cost is a non-starter. The main reason I go through the hassle of writing compilers for my websites is that I want them to be long-lived. Presently, I use Nearly Free Speech as my hosting provider. Their pricing scheme for static sites costs me about $2.50/yr and I can maintain an account balance. My $50 account balance will keep my site online for two decades whereas it would buy me only ten months on your service. (Not to mention that Github hosts static sites for free!) To consider another service, it wouldn't just have to beat the cost but instill a sense of confidence that I could trust the service with my data for the foreseeable future. A few features could tip the scales though: - Open ID auth instead of basic access auth - Easy SSL setup (gethttpsforfree.com was recently a huge help) - Inexpensive hosting for a very low-volume mailing list with HTML archives Good luck!

jlgaddis 11y ago
You might look into FreeLists [0] for your mailing list needs. [0]: https://www.freelists.org https://www.freelists.org

nathancahill 11y ago

Nice. One way you could distinguish your service from all other options (S3, Github Pages), is to support the history API for single page webapps. I'm hosting a static site on EC2 instead of S3 because I need URLs to fallback to index.html. Literally for this one nginx rule: location / { try_files $uri /index.html =404; } Also, I'd like to try the beta of your service, just signed up. My email is in my profile. Thanks!

frankthedog 11y ago
Surge and Firebase hosting both allow for this
- nathancahill 11y ago
  Dope, didn't find Surge when I was searching. Thanks, I'll switch over to that! Staying away from Firebase after what happened to Parse.

xena 11y ago

Your site doesn't accept connections over SSL.

programminggeek 11y ago
I know. We haven't added SSL to our site. That's one reason we are still in beta. My partner and I are finishing up a CLI app and then SSL comes after that. We are hoping to integrate nicely with something like letsencrypt.org, but we don't have a working solution yet. I know from experience that HTTPS setup isn't as easy, nice, or cheap as it should be and we plan to fix that if possible for static sites.