Staticland
Infrastructure
static site hosting
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
1 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.
Execution: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Free SSL solves costs of similar hosts like Surge
From 2 comments
Looks just like Surge.sh with free SSL.
nathancahill on HNDefinitely similar. I really love surge, and have too many static sites to pay the per-site costs to get SSL.
sethvincent on HN
Compile-locally deploy model is simpler and more predictable
From 1 comment
+1 Author of surge.sh here. Just want to add my support for the compile locally paradigm over sending to a service to be built. Far less complexity. Far more predictable.
sintaxi on HN
Objections
Name clashes with the static-land npm library
From 2 comments
This looks like a nice idea but it's a bit unfortunate about the name clash with https://github.com/rpominov/static-land Edit: Dear downvoters, normally it'd be unlikely for the…
phpnode on HNFrom rpominov/static-land’s README: ``` Pros - No name clashes. ```
minitech on HN
Unclear cost and scaling for large files or traffic spikes
From 2 comments
So while it may be cheap it's still a cost. Is there a file size limit? What if I statically host CoolLinuxISOs.com? Surely that could end up costly or is it limited in some not…
BinaryIdiot on HNGotcha. So curious, is there anything stopping someone from using up too much of your bandwidth? It's a cool thing but I'd hate to see some spammer get ahold of it and end up…
BinaryIdiot on HN
Docs lack tutorial for Jekyll and unclear deploy mechanism
From 1 comment
Is this primarily for static sites like Jekyll and Hugo? If so, could you add some kind of tutorial on how to get my Jekyll blog hosted on static.land? I'm not familiar with…
xs on HN
Requests
Add tutorial/docs for Jekyll and other static generators
From 2 comments
Is this primarily for static sites like Jekyll and Hugo? If so, could you add some kind of tutorial on how to get my Jekyll blog hosted on static.land? I'm not familiar with…
xs on HNThe deploy command is https. staticland doesn't use git at all, just deals with the built site produced by whatever static site generator you use. I'll add some examples to the…
sethvincent on HN
Note on name clash and hosting limits on site
From 2 comments
That is unfortunate! Looks like the two projects were started around the same time, too. I may add a note to the site/readme pointing people to that repo if they were looking for…
sethvincent on HNThanks, this is an important point. static.land itself may be best considered a demonstration of the open source software. If someone has significantly large files they're…
sethvincent on HN
Questions
Do I need npm to use it?
From 1 comment
Do I need NPM to use this?
wodenokoto on HN
Where are files hosted and what is the monetization plan?
From 2 comments
But where are the files hosted ?
johnchristopher on HNwhat's the monetization strategy?
bryanrasmussen on HN
Alternatives named
Surge.sh
From 1 comment
Looks just like Surge.sh with free SSL.
nathancahill on HN
Netlify
From 2 comments
Netlify is a good option, too, with continuous deployment and SSL. It's free for open source projects.
toddmorey on HNSeems like a cool project. I've got a site setup[0] like this already, where netlify pulls the files from github and then serves them from its CDN with A+ HTTPS+HSTS. Works…
libeclipse on HN
S3 with CloudFront and AWS Certificate Manager
From 1 comment
Just a note on your point about S3 and Letsencrypt: AWS has their own tool for free provisioning of TLS certificates, which is all integrated in a very nice way if you put your…
bjacobel on HN
Dokku with nginx buildpack
From 1 comment
Clever :-) Glad to see another solution out there! Myelf -- I've migrated almost all personal and small projects over to a self-hosted dokku instance. All of the static sites run…
sheraz on HN
now (zeit.co)
From 1 comment
I recently started using `now`[0] for hosting my static and small scale sites. While it's mainly targeted for Node apps /JS, it supports deploying static sites out of the box…
jorde on HN