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What's the benefit of hosting a static website on AWS instead of Github or Gitlab Pages?
by Mononokay 9y ago
What's the benefit of hosting a static website on AWS instead of Github or Gitlab Pages?
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- charlieegan3 9y agoNo HTTPS for custom domains https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-366542067 https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-366... is the main one.
- beefhash 9y agoGitHub Pages is one of the highest causes for seeing TLS alerts for me.
- drivebyops 9y agoYou can use cloudflare to get SSL with a custom domain for your GitHub pages https://gist.github.com/cvan/8630f847f579f90e0c014dc5199c337b https://gist.github.com/cvan/8630f847f579f90e0c014dc5199c337...
- tambre 9y agoAccording to the latest comments and issues linked in that very issue, GitHub Pages has started slowly enabling HTTPS support for sites that have custom domains.
- IshKebab 9y agoFirebase Static Hosting can do that and it's very easy, fast (Google's CDN) and free for up to 10 GB/month transfer.
- tambre 9y agoIPv6 support, it would seem. GitLab Pages offers no IPv6 support. GitHub doesn't support IPv6 for custom domains officially, but you can easily work around that by adding 2a04:4e42::403 as the AAAA record.
- greatamerican 9y agoless dependence on GitHub, IMO - I'm open to arguments in their favor though, for sure
- oooomm 9y agoYou just depend on Amazon instead
- reificator 9y agoUnless you're hosting out of your basement you have to depend on someone. I'd rather depend on someone who makes their revenue from hosting websites. Granted I pay for S3 hosting and Github...