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What are people using for hosting? I've thought about using github pages, but css ended up being severely limited.

detaro 10y ago
Github Pages can serve any static files, so I don't understand what you mean by "css being severely limited"? If you meant the Jekyll support build into GitHub, you could use a free CI service to run any other SSG, and push it to GitHub pages or any of the other suggested solutions. If you want everything from one service, GitLab uses their CI service for GitLab Pages and have prepared templates for many SSGs already.
ashitlerferad 10y ago
https://branchable.com/ https://branchable.com/
bismark 10y ago
I use https://nearlyfreespeech.net https://nearlyfreespeech.net. Pretty cheap and I leverage modrewrite rules quite a bit (which is why say github pages won't work for me).
imjared 10y ago
S3 works really nicely. I'm building my Octopress-based site using snap-ci (free for public builds). It was fairly straightforward to configure for use with S3 and you can run just about anything you want on it.
hawkice 10y ago
I rsync the files to a server where nginx serves them. The smallest server option at your VPS of choice will be plenty, particularly if your site is reasonably lean or less than mega-popular.
foxhop 10y ago
If you want to use sell hosted, use nginx on Joyent - you can get a 128M container for $2.16/m Then if your site becomes famous - drop cloud flare in front. https://www.joyent.com/pricing https://www.joyent.com/pricing
davepeck 10y ago
S3 + CloudFront, pushed via the s3_website gem. Free SSL (assuming you're okay with SNI), too.
puppetmaster3 10y ago
http://nodechef.com http://nodechef.com
fenomas 10y ago
I rsync mine to the smallest size of google cloud instance, in order to have control over nginx config and whatnot. It runs me about $4.50/month.
rickette 10y ago
GitHub (source) => TravisCI (deployment) => S3 (hosting). I have a CloudFront distribution sitting in front of S3, secured with a free SSL certificate powered by Amazon ACM. I like S3 for its flexibility. My site is in both English and Dutch and I want to serve English content on .io and the Dutch content on .nl. With S3 I just create two buckets, associate the bucket with a different domain and welcome page (index_en.html and index_nl.html) and publish the same site to each bucket.
thirdsun 10y ago
I really, really like Netlify. While it's probably not the cheapest option I think the pricing is fair and the ease of use, workflow and performance are great.
therealmarv 10y ago
GitLab Pages https://pages.gitlab.io/ https://pages.gitlab.io/ it also supports private repos and nearly every static site generator through gitlab ci
- StavrosK 10y ago
  I'd like to second Gitlab Pages, I'm using it with Lektor for http://portfolio.stavros.io/ http://portfolio.stavros.io/ and it's been fantastic so far.
cyberferret 10y ago
Amazon S3 + CloudFront here, for several websites and it works wonderfully. I recently set up attensee/s3_website as a pipeline on my BitBucket repo, so now when any team member pushes their HTML/CSS updates to BitBucket, it automatically deploys the site to S3 and invalidates the CloudFront caches automatically. Instant website updates using only `git push`.
gk1 10y ago
Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/ https://www.netlify.com/) themselves offer hosting and deployment for static sites, with included add-ons like CDNs, form handling, SSL, etc. GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/ https://pages.github.com/) is another popular option but it only supports Jekyll, and if you wanted a CDN, form handler, redirects, and other features then you'd have to tack on other services.
zackbloom 10y ago
Stout (http://stout.is http://stout.is) is a tool which will reliably push your site to S3, and setup all the CloudFront/SSL/etc. magic for you.
jgowans 10y ago
Check out Aerobatic [https://www.aerobatic.com https://www.aerobatic.com] Integrated with Bitbucket, git push deploy, Docker auto-builds of static generators, wildcard SSL custom domains, CDN, etc. disclaimer: I work at Aerobatic

Github Pages can serve any static files, so I don't understand what you mean by "css being severely limited"? If you meant the Jekyll support build into GitHub, you could use a free CI service to run any other SSG, and push it to GitHub pages or any of the other suggested solutions. If you want everything from one service, GitLab uses their CI service for GitLab Pages and have prepared templates for many SSGs already.

ashitlerferad 10y ago

https://branchable.com/ https://branchable.com/

bismark 10y ago

I use https://nearlyfreespeech.net https://nearlyfreespeech.net. Pretty cheap and I leverage modrewrite rules quite a bit (which is why say github pages won't work for me).

imjared 10y ago

S3 works really nicely. I'm building my Octopress-based site using snap-ci (free for public builds). It was fairly straightforward to configure for use with S3 and you can run just about anything you want on it.

hawkice 10y ago

I rsync the files to a server where nginx serves them. The smallest server option at your VPS of choice will be plenty, particularly if your site is reasonably lean or less than mega-popular.

foxhop 10y ago

If you want to use sell hosted, use nginx on Joyent - you can get a 128M container for $2.16/m Then if your site becomes famous - drop cloud flare in front. https://www.joyent.com/pricing https://www.joyent.com/pricing

davepeck 10y ago

S3 + CloudFront, pushed via the s3_website gem. Free SSL (assuming you're okay with SNI), too.

puppetmaster3 10y ago

http://nodechef.com http://nodechef.com

fenomas 10y ago

I rsync mine to the smallest size of google cloud instance, in order to have control over nginx config and whatnot. It runs me about $4.50/month.

rickette 10y ago

GitHub (source) => TravisCI (deployment) => S3 (hosting). I have a CloudFront distribution sitting in front of S3, secured with a free SSL certificate powered by Amazon ACM. I like S3 for its flexibility. My site is in both English and Dutch and I want to serve English content on .io and the Dutch content on .nl. With S3 I just create two buckets, associate the bucket with a different domain and welcome page (index_en.html and index_nl.html) and publish the same site to each bucket.

thirdsun 10y ago

I really, really like Netlify. While it's probably not the cheapest option I think the pricing is fair and the ease of use, workflow and performance are great.

therealmarv 10y ago

GitLab Pages https://pages.gitlab.io/ https://pages.gitlab.io/ it also supports private repos and nearly every static site generator through gitlab ci

StavrosK 10y ago
I'd like to second Gitlab Pages, I'm using it with Lektor for http://portfolio.stavros.io/ http://portfolio.stavros.io/ and it's been fantastic so far.

cyberferret 10y ago

Amazon S3 + CloudFront here, for several websites and it works wonderfully. I recently set up attensee/s3_website as a pipeline on my BitBucket repo, so now when any team member pushes their HTML/CSS updates to BitBucket, it automatically deploys the site to S3 and invalidates the CloudFront caches automatically. Instant website updates using only `git push`.

gk1 10y ago

Netlify (https://www.netlify.com/ https://www.netlify.com/) themselves offer hosting and deployment for static sites, with included add-ons like CDNs, form handling, SSL, etc. GitHub Pages (https://pages.github.com/ https://pages.github.com/) is another popular option but it only supports Jekyll, and if you wanted a CDN, form handler, redirects, and other features then you'd have to tack on other services.

zackbloom 10y ago

Stout (http://stout.is http://stout.is) is a tool which will reliably push your site to S3, and setup all the CloudFront/SSL/etc. magic for you.

jgowans 10y ago

Check out Aerobatic [https://www.aerobatic.com https://www.aerobatic.com] Integrated with Bitbucket, git push deploy, Docker auto-builds of static generators, wildcard SSL custom domains, CDN, etc. disclaimer: I work at Aerobatic