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Why do you even need a CDN? GitHub will host static sites for free and updating is a git push. S3 will as well for pennies a month unless your site is huge.

by api 9y ago

sulam 9y ago
“I fled Medium because they are a profit making enterprise that rando-bans people.” “Cool, where’d you go?” “GitHub pages.” “...”
greyman 9y ago
There is some bandwidth limit, though, and with CDN your site could also get better response times, since they will serve content from a server with better proximity to visitors.
- daurnimator 9y ago
  Is there a practical limit for gh-pages though? I think you get flagged for manual review if you're high traffic; but as long as you're serving content I don't know of anyone being taken down (and I have heard about some great lengths gone to to keep things up). And you can put a CDN in front of gh-pages too! I have done that with cloudflare a couple of times for relatives that want to run a static site and super low cost.
- adventured 9y ago
  Does GitHub not push its static content from a traditional CDN, or something effectively simulating a CDN (just a lot of servers spread across the globe)? I don't know offhand, it'd be surprising if they don't given the scale in question.
coaxial 9y ago
Netlify does all this for free IIRC.
osteele 9y ago
I don't believe you can use HTTPS with a custom domain (a domain that doesn't end in github.io or amazonaws.com), with GitHub pages or S3. Two free choices I'm aware of, for hosting at a URL that both future-proofs your choice of hosting provider and provides end-to-end encryption to site visitors, are the free CloudFlare plan in front of GitHub or S3 (or any other static hosting service), and the free hosting plan on Netlify.
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- TAForObvReasons 9y ago
  If you want to go the free route, you can use CloudFlare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-with-cloudflare/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-wit... -- you have to use CF for your DNS, but it is also free for basic use
- EpicEng 9y ago
  You can, we use S3 at my company to host a site used by pathologists to sign out reports. How we did that... I'd have to ask my coworker, but we have https and a custom domain.
  - grogenaut 9y ago
    Aws cert manager (acm) now does this for any domain you can verify
    - osteele 9y ago
      It looks[1] like you can use Cert Manager with CloudFront[2], but not directly with S3. CloudFront is very cheap[3], but it is not free. (For that matter, S3 itself is cheap but not free.) It's therefore a solution to “I'm employed in a developed nation and don't want to notice that I'm paying for hosting”, but not to “I have literally no money to spare for hosting because a year is less than coffee” or “I want my content to stay up without my having to remember to keep a valid credit card on file somewhere”. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-services.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-service... [2] CloudFront ≠ CloudFlare. Nobody in this thread has been confused about this, but it tends to trip people up. [3] I ran tech ops for a company whose site was, on launch day, around the 55th-most-popular site on the internet. I think our CloudFront bill was $300 for that day.

Why do you even need a CDN? GitHub will host static sites for free and updating is a git push. S3 will as well for pennies a month unless your site is huge.

by api 9y ago

Why do you even need a CDN? GitHub will host static sites for free and updating is a git push. S3 will as well for pennies a month unless your site is huge.

sulam 9y ago

“I fled Medium because they are a profit making enterprise that rando-bans people.” “Cool, where’d you go?” “GitHub pages.” “...”

greyman 9y ago

There is some bandwidth limit, though, and with CDN your site could also get better response times, since they will serve content from a server with better proximity to visitors.

daurnimator 9y ago
Is there a practical limit for gh-pages though? I think you get flagged for manual review if you're high traffic; but as long as you're serving content I don't know of anyone being taken down (and I have heard about some great lengths gone to to keep things up). And you can put a CDN in front of gh-pages too! I have done that with cloudflare a couple of times for relatives that want to run a static site and super low cost.
adventured 9y ago
Does GitHub not push its static content from a traditional CDN, or something effectively simulating a CDN (just a lot of servers spread across the globe)? I don't know offhand, it'd be surprising if they don't given the scale in question.

coaxial 9y ago

Netlify does all this for free IIRC.

osteele 9y ago

I don't believe you can use HTTPS with a custom domain (a domain that doesn't end in github.io or amazonaws.com), with GitHub pages or S3. Two free choices I'm aware of, for hosting at a URL that both future-proofs your choice of hosting provider and provides end-to-end encryption to site visitors, are the free CloudFlare plan in front of GitHub or S3 (or any other static hosting service), and the free hosting plan on Netlify.

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TAForObvReasons 9y ago
If you want to go the free route, you can use CloudFlare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-with-cloudflare/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-and-fast-github-pages-wit... -- you have to use CF for your DNS, but it is also free for basic use
EpicEng 9y ago
You can, we use S3 at my company to host a site used by pathologists to sign out reports. How we did that... I'd have to ask my coworker, but we have https and a custom domain.
- grogenaut 9y ago
  Aws cert manager (acm) now does this for any domain you can verify
  - osteele 9y ago
    It looks[1] like you can use Cert Manager with CloudFront[2], but not directly with S3. CloudFront is very cheap[3], but it is not free. (For that matter, S3 itself is cheap but not free.) It's therefore a solution to “I'm employed in a developed nation and don't want to notice that I'm paying for hosting”, but not to “I have literally no money to spare for hosting because a year is less than coffee” or “I want my content to stay up without my having to remember to keep a valid credit card on file somewhere”. [1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-services.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-service... [2] CloudFront ≠ CloudFlare. Nobody in this thread has been confused about this, but it tends to trip people up. [3] I ran tech ops for a company whose site was, on launch day, around the 55th-most-popular site on the internet. I think our CloudFront bill was $300 for that day.