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Static site hosting is cheap, and I'm not super interested in competing with other services with per-site costs. staticland is primarily an open source project

Static site hosting is cheap, and I'm not super interested in competing with other services with per-site costs. staticland is primarily an open source project that I use for my own purposes, and I'm open to building out static site deployment projects that fit a company's specific use case based on staticland.

bryanrasmussen 10y ago
ok thanks, so have you gotten any interest from companies? Asking because I need to host my static sites somewhere soon but don't want to go somewhere that won't stick around a long time.
- sethvincent 10y ago
  So far not much interest, but this post is also the first time I've done any significant promotion. If you want to go with a really solid static site hosting company netlify.com seems like a great choice. You could also always set up a staticland-api server on your own. Right now I'm using static.land for 12+ of my own sites that I rely on and more on the way, so it's not going anywhere.
- fiatjaf 10y ago
  It should be simple to move your static sites if this goes away, don't you think? In fact, I can't think of anything simpler.
BinaryIdiot 10y ago
So while it may be cheap it's still a cost. Is there a file size limit? What if I statically host CoolLinuxISOs.com? Surely that could end up costly or is it limited in some not identified way? What about handling major traffic from, say, if my website went to the front page of Reddit.com or any other popular website? Can it scale out and handle traffic spikes or even constant traffic? I get this is more for small / tiny sites and it's really cool I just want to make sure I understand the costs associated.
- sethvincent 10y ago
  Thanks, this is an important point. static.land itself may be best considered a demonstration of the open source software. If someone has significantly large files they're looking to host, they would want to host the staticland-api server themselves or consider other options. I'll add some text to the site about this.
  - BinaryIdiot 10y ago
    Gotcha. So curious, is there anything stopping someone from using up too much of your bandwidth? It's a cool thing but I'd hate to see some spammer get ahold of it and end up using thousands of dollars worth of bandwidth. I mean I'm sure you're monitoring it but you're not always next to a computer to put a stop to it. Just food for though :)

bryanrasmussen 10y ago

ok thanks, so have you gotten any interest from companies? Asking because I need to host my static sites somewhere soon but don't want to go somewhere that won't stick around a long time.

sethvincent 10y ago
So far not much interest, but this post is also the first time I've done any significant promotion. If you want to go with a really solid static site hosting company netlify.com seems like a great choice. You could also always set up a staticland-api server on your own. Right now I'm using static.land for 12+ of my own sites that I rely on and more on the way, so it's not going anywhere.
fiatjaf 10y ago
It should be simple to move your static sites if this goes away, don't you think? In fact, I can't think of anything simpler.

BinaryIdiot 10y ago

So while it may be cheap it's still a cost. Is there a file size limit? What if I statically host CoolLinuxISOs.com? Surely that could end up costly or is it limited in some not identified way? What about handling major traffic from, say, if my website went to the front page of Reddit.com or any other popular website? Can it scale out and handle traffic spikes or even constant traffic? I get this is more for small / tiny sites and it's really cool I just want to make sure I understand the costs associated.

sethvincent 10y ago
Thanks, this is an important point. static.land itself may be best considered a demonstration of the open source software. If someone has significantly large files they're looking to host, they would want to host the staticland-api server themselves or consider other options. I'll add some text to the site about this.
- BinaryIdiot 10y ago
  Gotcha. So curious, is there anything stopping someone from using up too much of your bandwidth? It's a cool thing but I'd hate to see some spammer get ahold of it and end up using thousands of dollars worth of bandwidth. I mean I'm sure you're monitoring it but you're not always next to a computer to put a stop to it. Just food for though :)