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Static sites are becoming more and more popular -- you can host them on CDNs across the globe, they can be cached client-side, pre-loaded, work offline.... Esp
by calcsam 9y ago
Static sites are becoming more and more popular -- you can host them on CDNs across the globe, they can be cached client-side, pre-loaded, work offline....
Especially important thinking about the billions of people in developing countries accessing the Internet over 2G connections.
If the trend towards static sites continues, Netlify could be the next Heroku.
Personally, I use Netlify to host my Gatsby blog; all I need to do is `git push` and they handle the rest.
- jbob2000 9y agoYou can use heroku for static sites and it already is that easy (well, kinda... git push heroku master)
- michaelmior 9y agoYou definitely can, but it's not designed or optimized for static sites. And I think there's plenty you can do to improve performance when an app server isn't needed.
- robertelder 9y agoFor me the biggest appeal of static sites is that I now have significantly less attack surface to think about. The chances of someone finding an RCE in Amazon S3 are way less than than the same occurring on some old Apache 2 server where auto-update broke a couple months ago because of the linux kernel headers eating up all my inodes.
- ronilan 9y ago> Static sites are becoming more and more popular Indeed. I literally just finished showing my daughter (10) and son (12) how to move their stuff from codepen.io to surge.sh[1] The future is static :) [1] a Vancouver based Netlify "competitor".