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by bobfunk 12y ago
Thanks! Fixed the typo now :)
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Show HN: Netlify – Builds, Deploys and Hosts Your Static Site or App(netlify.com)
116 points by bobfunk 12y ago|41 comments
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Spot on. Right now if you want to build any kind of highly concurrent server or daemon Go is just so immensely practical and productive. Channels are very easy to work with and both the scheduler and the large standard library are rock soli
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by bobfunk 12y ago
This approach to documentation works really well with netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ). We let you link your middleman repository to a netlify site and instantly setup automated builds with continuous deployment to our CDN. It&
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Completely agree with this. You can be really productive with Angular and as long as you avoid the most common pitfalls its more than fast enough, and comes with batteries included and a rich eco-system. The crazy roadmap to 2.x, and the de
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Added your blog generator to StaticGen now :) http://www.staticgen.com/deadsimplelog
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Someone posted it further down the comment thread, but anyway, here's a reason post I wrote on why you'll want HTTPS even for a static site: https://www.bitballoon.com/blog/2014/10/03/five-reaso
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Github pages can only run builds of plain jekyll sites with no plugins. Netlify will work for pretty much any static site generator (right now we support ruby, node and python). You can also trigger new builds without pushing to Git (essent
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Middleman is awesome and very proven in the field. There's a lot of cool sites out there made with it. At Netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ) we're building a static hosting service with integrated build automation that&
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by bobfunk 12y ago
We're solving some of these issue with Netlify ( https://www.netlify.com ), since we'll run your Octopress (or Grunt, Middleman, Jekyll, Docpad, etc) builds on our servers when you push to Github. You'll still want
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Awesome post. Best explanation I've seen so far how Rust's resource management. Always impressed with Yehuda's ability to explain complex techniques and abstractions clearly. Having the compiler eliminate resource leaks is re
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Founder of BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ) here. Always interesting to see more and more startups popping up in the static hosting space. Since we launched a year ago there's been at least 6 other entering the space
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Lets chat as well - I'm the founder of BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ), we do static hosting as well. mathias@bitballoon.com
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by bobfunk 12y ago
It's still expensive to offer SSL when you have a CDN in front unless you go with just SNI support (which could cost a significant portion of your visitors). We have CDN backed HTTPS for custom sites on BitBalloon ( https://w
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by bobfunk 12y ago
What: https://www.bitballoon.com Why is it cool: complete beginners are deploying their first ever websites with it, and experienced programmers are building cool stuff with it! I also really like using it for my own stuff and t
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Thought the same, but it doesn't seem like it exposes a REST API for getting at the content during a build of a static site. Seems like it's just meant as the content management part of a dynamic PHP site. Would be interesting to
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by bobfunk 12y ago
A bit off-topic, but it's not the "nofollow" that leaves you with no referrer in analytics, it's SSL. HN forces HTTPS and your page is HTTP. The browser never sends a referrer when you follow a link from an encrypted sit
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Check out BitBalloon [disclaimer, my startup] for an alternative to S3 + Cloudfront. S3 on it's own actually have very bad latency, and it doesn't give you any good way to do atomic deploys (you just upload one file after the othe
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by bobfunk 12y ago
A C# generator on the list would be great - do send a pull request! Or drop a link here :)
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by bobfunk 12y ago
They're different. Jekyll has a very simple, convention driven feel to it. Templating is based on Liquid which can be a limitation in some cases. Middleman feels more like Rails for static sites. Out of the box templates are ERB, which
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by bobfunk 12y ago
It's actually explained in the rules. Might be a wrong decision, but we didn't want humongous list of templates for generators that support a library like this. So for all of those we go with the template engine they use by defaul
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by bobfunk 12y ago
StaticGen.com has actually been around longer, we just recently relaunched it. I was thinking of just letting it lapse, but after using staticsitegenerators.net myself, I found I wanted a list that was a bit more strict, in the sense of not
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StaticGen – The Top Open-Source Static Site Generators(staticgen.com)
3 points by bobfunk 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobfunk 12y ago
yeah, got a bunch - guess they're not strictly speaking false, it's just not something most of us can do anything about...
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Seems this homepage died at least...
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Same happened to us. Took away live chat around the same time.
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by bobfunk 12y ago
The link to the actual paper in the post 404s - found this version that works for now: http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/87/02/25/PDF/RR-8347.pdf
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Thanks for the mention - we're working on a new version that'll be open-source and more comprehensive (though still limited to open-source static site generators). Stay tuned :)
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Check out BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ). Static hosting as well, but we're not tied to any specific BaaS provider, have both an open API, command line deployment tools and grunt integration. Deploys are atomic and
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by bobfunk 12y ago
Great demonstration of the importance of load times! BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ) will give you better speed with a root domain, but as with any other host you'll still loose out on some of our baked in CDN suppo

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