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Re:Strategy: Run A Scalable, Available, And Cheap Static Sit... by timtadh on Monday August 22, 2011 @01:58PM (#2913363)
> Using DropBox is the clever bit here for me. DropBox make it so the files follow you so you can edit them on any of your machines.

I mean, I guess you could do that, if you really wanted too... or you could use Git. Dropbox is a great service, but for code (even static html) it isn't a good fit.

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Re:Strategy: Run A Scalable, Available, And Cheap Static Sit... by mechanical_fish on Monday August 22, 2011 @03:18PM (#2913699)
To first order, people don't understand version control systems. Even highly educated, computer-literate people.

This is a major reason why the CMS was invented in the first place. It's also a major reason why Dropbox was invented.

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