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by bobfunk 11y ago
Uptime and performance is typically some of the most important things for customers. Definitively way more important in general than whether there's a www prefix or not...
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by bobfunk 11y ago
We also strongly discourage users from using naked domains, unless they have a DNS host that supports ALIAS records or CNAME flattening. I wrote a post with all the details around why it's best to use www and why naked domains can be r
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Our CDN at Netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ) is based on traffic server and it's powerful plugin engine. I've used both Squid, varnish and nginx plenty, but traffic server beat them in our benchmarks and the built in s
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Check out netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ) - we're like GitHub Pages on steroids (integrated continuous deployment, proxying, redirect and rewrite rules + lots of other features) and we launched free SSL on custom domains
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by bobfunk 11y ago
The full ssl feature means skiing a fallback certificate for non-SNI capable browsers. Internet explorer on windows XP and Android 2.3 doesn't support SNI based ssl and our full ssl solution assures that even these older browsers can a
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by bobfunk 11y ago
One thing to really internalize is that a business is not a product. If you just look at some product that's gotten investment and think "why would they invest in that?", you're thinking about it wrong. The entrepreneur
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by bobfunk 11y ago
We just launched support for free SSL on all our plans at https://www.netlify.com , doing what we can to help getting HTTPS everywhere. Won't help on mixed content or broken ad providers, but at least give people a place to
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Show HN: Lets Encrypt on Netlify – Static CDN Hosting with Free SSL(netlify.com)
9 points by bobfunk 11y ago|2 comments
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This Weekend's DDoS Attack and What's in a (C)Name?(netlify.com)
1 points by bobfunk 11y ago|0 comments
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by bobfunk 11y ago
They did pretty much exactly the same here with our corporate account on the 24th. Had to spend 6 hours(!) Monday to get it unfrozen and don't actually know if it worked yet...
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by bobfunk 11y ago
For point 1 - that will give you way worse performance than WeWork's current setup, since all requests will have to go back to your origin where your express server is running in order to determine if it's a static request or a dy
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Hi Peter, I have a question about E2 VISA's and what to do when you raise enough funding that you loose majority ownership? The situation is company with 2 founders on E2 VISAs with majority ownership of a company, who'll most lik
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by bobfunk 11y ago
You're welcome! And give netlify a try (I'm a founder). For a large site with hundreds of interlinked pages, S3 has the problem that there's no good way to do atomic deploys (what they call all-or-nothing consistency for whol
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by bobfunk 11y ago
It's not actually CDN backed unless you consider a single PoP in Digital Ocean's San Francisco datacenter a CDN...
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Apart from that, separating content and design can also be a big deal for working with different kinds of tooling. You can use hugo to fetch JSON, YAML or CSV data from remote URLs and use those data as part of the build process. And if you
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Hugo is awesome, especially because of the speed of builds. We use it with netlify for https://www.staticwebtech.com and it generally takes around 5 seconds from we push to git and until a new version of the site is live. Here&#
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by bobfunk 11y ago
We provide both SNI based SSL (starting at $9 including the cert) and full SSL ($49) with CDN based hosting at https://www.netlify.com As many other has noted, even when once in the future you'll be able to rely on free cer
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Give netlify a try https://www.netlify.com It's like GitHub pages on steroids (SSL, redirects/rewrite rules, proxying, domain aliases, etc, etc...). It'll run any build tool for you (not just Jekyll) and we have b
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by bobfunk 11y ago
At netlify we're seeing more and more large projects being built with this approach. Some have more than 10k pages, search functionality, internationalization and large content teams behind them. Expect some interesting case studies :)
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by bobfunk 11y ago
I've done lots of these kinda performance tests against all kind of dynamic sites, and higher end managed hosting services like WPEngine, etc... Once in a while someone manage to get CDN hosting just right, but it's really rare, a
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Why Static Website Generators Are the Next Big Thing(smashingmagazine.com)
4 points by bobfunk 11y ago|2 comments
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Been doing that for some small sites with Google Sheets, Jekyll and Netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ). Wrote this plugin for Jekyll that'll let you use a Sheet as a data-source when building the site: https://git
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Feel free to ping me directly if you're still having trouble: matt@netlify.com
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Not sure what's up with that - Olark's been online all day (I know, it's been busy with the divshot news) and our API has had no issues (again, we've been seeing lots of activity). The API call you list there is only ava
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Added it to staticgen.com now - love these small non-general purpose static gens :) Reminds me of ThumnsUp: https://github.com/rprieto/thumbsup
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by bobfunk 11y ago
As far as I can see there's no categorization. The only way to find the list of actual static site generators is to read through the description of each of them. And since some don't have descriptions, the only way to know for sur
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Yeah, good catch - just pushed a fix for that :)
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by bobfunk 11y ago
Send a pull request :)
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by bobfunk 11y ago
That list also includes all kind of stuff that's not actually static sure generators, like BitBalloon (hosting service) or Kirby (flat file CMS), etc... At staticgen we have far stricter rules of what we accept in the list. See https:
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by bobfunk 11y ago
But it's 100ms each way for every database request while rendering the page! There's not a lot of apps out there that can do with 1 request to their database during an average page load.

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