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by bobfunk 10y ago
We do run our own CDN at Netlify, and that's what allow us to serve the actual HTML pages out of edge caches while handling atomic deploys and instant cache invalidation. This matters less when you test from New York (where Smashing Ma
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by bobfunk 10y ago
You need some kind of API layer to talk efficiently to Git with authentication, etc, from the browser, and GitHub has currently done the best job of building that. We do have an open-source project for a REST API you can put in front of any
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by bobfunk 10y ago
We do really want to build a viable workflow around this stack, and get to a point where setting up a project like this is completely click-and-go - without giving up the fundamental basis of being open-source, based on open-standards and b
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by bobfunk 10y ago
We have pretty big plans for the markdown editing component. It currently has a system of "editorComponents" that lets you define block level components that can be edited inside markdown bodies. There's still some work ahead
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Author here - cool to see our test on HN :) We made the backend for the test open-source - it's a very straight forward Go binary that we run in several data centers around the world. https://github.com/netlify/spe
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by bobfunk 10y ago
You can setup multi stage builds like: npm run build && npm run test
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Have a look at Netlify, https://www.netlify.com , (disclaimer I'm a cofounder). You can get all of this in 30 seconds on our free plan + instant cache invalidation, deploy previews (we'll give you a unique preview url f
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Take a look at Netlify (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder), you'll get redirects, built-in prerendering, automated deployments, custom headers, etc. All with full cache-ability on our CDN. https://www.netlify.com
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by bobfunk 10y ago
The second part is the tricky part - I've gotten offers from DDoS mitigation providers that advertises that level of capacity, but how much it helps depends entirely on how much of that traffic they can scrub. If they only scrub half o
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GraphQL at GitHub(heavybit.com)
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by bobfunk 10y ago
The site itself is powered by Netlify.
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by bobfunk 10y ago
For those wondering what to do with an asset pipeline, check out Victor Hugo ( https://github.com/netlify/victor-hugo ), a boilerplate for using gulp and webpack too manage the asset pipeline around a hugo based project.
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by bobfunk 10y ago
We do this for hugo (and any other build tool) at Netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ) together with a whole bunch of extra features to make the workflow even easier.
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Have a look at netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ). Free plan as well, but we include https, support any build tool (not just jekyll), have integrated CDN support, deploy preview (get a unique URL for each pull request) and much,
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Netlify CEO here. Super excited to launch this. It's another step towards making it a 1 click operation to publish directly to a CDN on a custom with continuous deployment, HTTPS, all the right caching configurations, instant cache inv
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by bobfunk 10y ago
As long as I've been reading HackerNews (all the way back since it was called StartupNews), it's been common to see founders chime in about their startups when they are clearly relevant to the topic and it's not done by a mar
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Check out Netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ) for a simpler setup that's also free and lets you use Jekyll plugins, enables very aggressive caching on the CDN level, but with instant cache invalidation and atomic deploys, and
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Check out netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ) - we'll let you setup https with let's encrypt as a one click operation.
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by bobfunk 10y ago
It tends to matter a lot in two cases: 1. During development. Having instant builds running whenever you save is great for the development experience 2. For really large sites. Being able to build many thousand pages in about a minute inste
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Take a look at netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ). We're like a heroku tailored for that stack.
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Not that wickedly fast unless you're really near Dallas where the server is: https://performance.sucuri.net/domain/varvy.com Hosting on a single VPS is never gonna be very fast globally no matter what you pay your
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Yes. You can get free HTTPS for your existing domain by using netlify. No need to change domain registrant.
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Have a look at Netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ) - our free tier is like GitHub pages on steroids including HTTPS for custom domains (and deploy previews, use any build tool not just Jekyll, redirect rules, etc...).
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by bobfunk 10y ago
If you don't need the features on the $49 dollar plan - why not just set them up with the free plan or the basic plan? The people that pay for the $49/$349 or $1000 are typically clients with projects that are not simple "sta
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by bobfunk 10y ago
We have a pretty extensive comparison here of S3 vs Netlify: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/03/06/comparing-netlify-an... You're completely forgetting Continuous deployment in your comparison, wh
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Netlify founder here. Firebase hosting is great for simple static content that you push manually. We do continuous deployment with deep git integration that'll create unique preview URLs for each pull request, making it awesome to coll
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Isomorphic rendering on the JAM Stack(hawksworx.com)
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Introducing Deploy Previews in Netlify(netlify.com)
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by bobfunk 10y ago
I'm a co-founder of netlify and happy to chime in. Surge is a simple tool with a really awesome CLI for deploying static sites quickly. At netlify we're building a larger platform for working with a modern static approach. We have
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by bobfunk 10y ago
Check out https://www.netlify.com (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder). It's like GitHub pages on steroids and includes free Let's Encrypt based SSL for custom domains, can run builds from your GitHub repo with any stat

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