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Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites?

4 points by rileytg 13y ago

I'm constantly building new static sites, deployed using github pages (not enough control over my sites, goes down easily) and s3 (pain in the ass generally). I now need a better option because everything i find is FTP deploy which is lame. I want git or some other cross platform cli & gui way to deploy. Any suggestions?

arkokoley 13y ago
bitballoon.com is your best bet! Deploys are via Git and every commit is there, so you can revert to a previous state if u mess up. Plus if u dnt like git, deploy via uploading a zip of the site.
- darron 13y ago
  This is pretty awesome. Never heard of them until today - looks interesting.
benologist 13y ago
Use a single-dino Heroku to receive the latest push and have the dino deploy the appropriate folders to S3 for you? I don't know of an existing way to do that but it would be a negligible amount of code + amazon sdk in most languages.
theuiguru 13y ago
http://harp.io http://harp.io (@HarpPlatform) powered by http://harps.com http://harps.com (@HarpWebServer). A “Zero configuration publishing platform."
- krrishd 13y ago
  http://HarpJS.com http://HarpJS.com is the URL, not harps.com :)
darron 13y ago
We're building a backend using Docker that can do just that. It's called octohost and there's lots of information available here: http://www.octohost.io/ http://www.octohost.io/ We have a static template that you can see here: https://github.com/octohost/html https://github.com/octohost/html You can also use all sorts of other languages/frameworks - a full list is here: http://www.octohost.io/languages http://www.octohost.io/languages Deploys use git.
mbleigh 13y ago
We're building http://www.divshot.io/ http://www.divshot.io/ to be exactly this. Currently in private beta and will be launching soon (in fact, anyone who sees this just shoot us an email and we'll let you in). CDN-accelerated, automatic development and staging environments for every app, SSL support...take a look!
- krrishd 13y ago
  Wait, so just to be clear, divshot.com is the editor, and the divshot.io part is kind of a PaaS for static sites? Seems pretty exciting for front-end development :)
  - mbleigh 13y ago
    Yup, you got it. Sorry it took me a bit to see this post.
rtcoms 13y ago
You can use heroku to host static website. Although it's a hack, but very simple and should not be a problem. http://www.lemiffe.com/how-to-deploy-a-static-page-to-heroku-the-easy-way/ http://www.lemiffe.com/how-to-deploy-a-static-page-to-heroku...
AznHisoka 13y ago
Why is FTP lame? It works. Just select your folder, FTP it, go get some coffee, and wa-la, it's up!