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Consider these simpler alternatives: - https://pages.cloudflare.com/ https://pages.cloudflare.com/ - https://vercel.com/ https://vercel.com/ - https://www.ne
by digianarchist 5y ago
Consider these simpler alternatives:
- https://pages.cloudflare.com/ https://pages.cloudflare.com/
- https://vercel.com/ https://vercel.com/
- https://www.netlify.com/ https://www.netlify.com/
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-static-website-to-the-cloud-with-digitalocean-app-platform https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-depl...
- ngcc_hk 5y agoMiss the digital ocean 3 free site offer. May try that.
- digianarchist 5y agoAlso forgot https://render.com/docs/static-sites https://render.com/docs/static-sites
- Sateeshm 5y agoYeah. My experience with hosting a svelte site on render was just amazing. Highly recommend it
- jzer0cool 5y agoDoes pages.cloudlare also run apps or just static pages?
- wiennat 5y agojust static page. But you can use their worker service to run some server-side functions
- _8j50 5y agoAzure websites and githubpages are nice too. Why pay when you don't have to?
- swidi 5y agoFree services never truly are, and I don't want to build something on a foundation I don't pay for. Corporate generosity always runs out eventually.
- _8j50 5y agoIt is not generosity, they hook you in for free so when your needs grow you will stick with their platform and pay. Static sites are cheap to host that is why it is free. Should your needs grow past simple static sites they are hoping you will use their paid options. This isn't a "you are the product" situation.
- swidi 5y agoHow are any of these simpler than "Get VM, install server, rsync files"? Why is the solution always "sign up for a proprietary service that might not exist next year and rig up a bunch of fragile webhooks"? Also, I don't use Git or Github.
- dorfsmay 5y ago* no need to install and configure OS * No need to install and configure web server * No need to setup firewall * No need to main and patch above components every day * No need to upgrade the OS every few months/years I have not used mercurial in close to a decade, but from what I can remember you could push to a git server from the mercurial client.
- digianarchist 5y agoI'm an SRE and I'll say that all of these services are far simpler than configuring, maintaining and monitoring a VM. If you want to maintain your Mercurial setup then consider S3 + Cloudfront.
- kadoban 5y agoIt's simpler from a certain point of view, namely one where you don't want to have to maintain the VM. It's more complicated because you need to know more random tech that I bet you don't want to learn. Which is fine, it's really not necessary. By the way, you should learn git sometime. Or there's a couple other VCSes that are somewhat known, but git is both good and has good networking effects (everyone uses it).