How do you all host your static sites?

I've built a few static sites and now I want to deploy to static hosting sites and show to my prospects.

I am looking at hosting on an S3 bucket. Just want to know how do you guys your static sites?

P.S: Long term - I want to CI/CD my every branch to S3. Thoughts?

Ashking Author

Came across Fast.io. Giving it a try.

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Ashking Author

Gave this a try 👆… its fancy… Ain't worth it

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Vercel.

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I also use Vercel. I've tried Netfly too and prefer Vercel. The UI was simpler for my needs.

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Vercel is definitely the best choice. Fast.io looks promising too.

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Bao D

I use Next.js so Vercel is the natural choice. So far so good.

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Kai

Any other reason besides the UI to choose Vercel over Netlify? I'm quite happy with Netlify and never tried Vercel.

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Ashking Author

Going to try this out tonight.

I hosted a few on S3 buckets and now trying to automate those. Hurray.. thanks for all the suggestions folks.

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Veit Progl

Currently Netlify

but I like github pages too

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Maciej

Netlify or Vercel

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Most of my static site hosted at Netlify , but Vercel is awesone too ;p

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Brandon

I personally host my static content on a VPS running Linux. Newer webservers like caddy automagically fetch SSL certs if the domain points to the right place.

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Ashking Author

Interesting!

Out of curiosity what does your expense look like for your VPS?

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I am going to recommend Surge.sh . I haven't seen anything faster than that to quickly just get your webapp online.

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Ashking Author

Wow.. this looks really easy. Have bookmarked on my list to try it out. Thanks for sharing!

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Nihar Raote

I used Heroku for my early projects. Currently, I use Netlify and it is much simpler to use than Heroku with a better interface.

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Initially, I hosted my Statamic sites on Digital Ocean (and used Forge to provision the server and manage deployments).

Now, I use the Static Site Generator add-on for Statamic and deploy directly to Netlify: https://youtu.be/aRgOBn0zKMI

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Statamic looks pretty cool, never heard of it. Is it like Gatsby?

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@sergio It's Laravel/PHP based. And I love it. I run both Transistor and my personal blog on it.

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👏 loads fast!

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AWS S3, with Cloudfront and Route 53, not the best fan of AWS (poor docs) but at least nothing too complicated with these 3 services.

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Ashking Author

Loved S3… I second that AWS docs are hard especially if you want to read-between-the-lines and set it up quickly.

I slept for 2 hours to calm my mind and then went through the docs and finally understood how to set and get it up and running.

Its ain't poor docs but really could have been way too simpler. Lol.

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Helen

Netlify, because it let me get in and get out. I got too much work to do than fumble with that stuff.

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Vercel is great, and the integration with Gitlab CI is just perfect.

Otherwise, you can use a combination between Firebase hosting and Cloudflare to reduce the bandwidth usage. I find Firebase hosting pretty expensive when you go to the paid plan…

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Ashking Author

Wow.. this something in my list I need to crack on… CI/CD with GitLab. Heard its lot easier to do.

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@ashking It's super effective and helps a lot for quality insurance as you can test a lot at each commit.

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Andrew C

Github pages. Its free, supports custom domains, and inbuilt SSL cert generation

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Jeff Jadulco

Vercel gang 🙌

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