Static site CDNs
Services
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https://commons.host
- Based on Node.js native HTTP/2
- Built by yours truly (@sebdeckers)
- Aimed at next-gen static frontend development: server push, manifests, etc
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https://zeit.co/blog/now-static
- Delightful design, very clever details
- Superb team
- Auto-detects static sites
- Requires framework-specific serve tooling for SPA
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https://www.bitballoon.com
- Super noob friendly
- Drag and drop
- Demo on the homepage is the actual workflow
- Mini GUI dashboard to set password, change domain name
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https://www.netlify.com
- Came out of BitBalloon, more techie focused
- Demo on homepage for the CLI installation and usage
- Built on Apache Traffic Server
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https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/
- Owned by Google, looks very Borgified
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https://surge.sh
- Simple CLI deploys, video demo
- Took off when Heroku changed their pricing to make static site hosting unviable
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https://www.pubstorm.com
- Nitrous.io spinoff
- Helpful "getting started" repos to clone and deploy
- RIP
💀 Went away with Nitrous shutdown
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https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
- Seems to just give an SSH account with a special directory for the static files?
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https://pages.github.com
- Magical git branch
- Limited to Jekyll SSG
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https://pages.gitlab.io
- GitLab CI builds/pipelines integration
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https://www.aerobatic.com
- Atlassian/Bitbucket integration
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https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
- The Alpha and the Omega
- Byzantine
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https://static.land
- Similar architecture as http2live (server, api, client, web app, docs)
- Intended as personal project, not a public/commercial service
- RIP?
💀 No answer from dev on Gitter
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https://neocities.org
- Open source
- FOSS hipster & wizards like it
- Made mostly by one dev, with contributors helping out
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