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Aye, you may have commented before I edited and added the line at the bottom but I recently started running a small-site with Jekyll and Github Pages. There's

by iamdave 10y ago

Aye, you may have commented before I edited and added the line at the bottom but I recently started running a small-site with Jekyll and Github Pages. There's an excellent change it may become my default platform.

discreditable 10y ago
I'd encourage you to look at other generators as well. Jekyll and Octopress are the big ones. I'm a little soured on Octopress at the moment because I don't like the way it manages ruby dependencies. I plan to evaluate pelican soon to see if the situation is any better. I'd also advocate using a real host instead of gh-pages because it gives you more control. In my case I like using TLS on my own domain.
- iamdave 10y ago
  Re: Jekyll hosting anyone you'd recommend? As far as control goes, gh-pages has met almost all of my needs as I can use proper and semantic markup, use a custom domain and such. In your opinion what am I missing out on based on my above comments that should be considered? I appreciate the feedback so far, you've raised some good points to think about.
  - grzm 10y ago
    AWS S3 can work well.
  - discreditable 10y ago
    I like NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Like I said previously, my hosting costs were 82 cents for 2016. I cheat a little using Cloudflare to cache content, but I estimate my bill would be maybe $2 without Cloudflare. The biggest advantage of my own host is TLS with my custom domain. Last time I checked, gh-pages doesn't do that. I'm a big proponent of encrypting the web, so that alone is enough for me. On top of TLS, using a real host gives me some control I wouldn't have on gh-pages. I can use .htaccess to redirect pages, set cache expiry times, and server headers (such as strict-transport-security). All of that makes it worth the very low cost of entry.
- iamatworknow 10y ago
  Hugo was recommended to me as an alternative by a coworker, but with the caveat that he had to do some manual coding to get things the way he wanted. Hugo's written in Go, with which I have no experience, so I went with Pelican instead.
- tedmiston 10y ago
  Harp (https://harpjs.com https://harpjs.com) is another static site generator that's very batteries included out of the box.

by iamdave 10y ago

discreditable 10y ago

I'd encourage you to look at other generators as well. Jekyll and Octopress are the big ones. I'm a little soured on Octopress at the moment because I don't like the way it manages ruby dependencies. I plan to evaluate pelican soon to see if the situation is any better. I'd also advocate using a real host instead of gh-pages because it gives you more control. In my case I like using TLS on my own domain.

iamdave 10y ago
Re: Jekyll hosting anyone you'd recommend? As far as control goes, gh-pages has met almost all of my needs as I can use proper and semantic markup, use a custom domain and such. In your opinion what am I missing out on based on my above comments that should be considered? I appreciate the feedback so far, you've raised some good points to think about.
- grzm 10y ago
  AWS S3 can work well.
- discreditable 10y ago
  I like NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Like I said previously, my hosting costs were 82 cents for 2016. I cheat a little using Cloudflare to cache content, but I estimate my bill would be maybe $2 without Cloudflare. The biggest advantage of my own host is TLS with my custom domain. Last time I checked, gh-pages doesn't do that. I'm a big proponent of encrypting the web, so that alone is enough for me. On top of TLS, using a real host gives me some control I wouldn't have on gh-pages. I can use .htaccess to redirect pages, set cache expiry times, and server headers (such as strict-transport-security). All of that makes it worth the very low cost of entry.
iamatworknow 10y ago
Hugo was recommended to me as an alternative by a coworker, but with the caveat that he had to do some manual coding to get things the way he wanted. Hugo's written in Go, with which I have no experience, so I went with Pelican instead.
tedmiston 10y ago
Harp (https://harpjs.com https://harpjs.com) is another static site generator that's very batteries included out of the box.