[HN Gopher] Static site hosting hurdles ___________________________________________________________________ Static site hosting hurdles Author : ciprian_craciun Score : 13 points Date : 2022-09-05 22:01 UTC (58 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (notes.volution.ro) (TXT) w3m dump (notes.volution.ro) | tomcam wrote: | Sobering, eye-opening, and encouraging in one swell foop. I am | bookmarking & backing this page up because it coalesces many many | issues that have been plaguing me with static site generation. | | Well done. | akerl_ wrote: | It felt odd to see a doc this comprehensive on static site | hosting with no mention of AWS S3/Cloudfront, given how easy it | is to push content to an S3 bucket (either manually or via the CI | pipeline of your choosing) and then serve it up either direct- | from-S3 or via Cloudfront. | | But then it turns out that this is actually pushing folks towards | some new paradigm of static cached HTTP responses instead of | files. It pitches this as an attempt to "standardize the hosting | side of static sites", which doesn't pass muster for me. We've | already standardized the hosting side of static sites by using | the file system. Shifting to a new storage format besides "HTML | on disk" doesn't unify anything, nor does it seem desirable to | have fewer options for serving content. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-05 23:00 UTC)