Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites?

Posted by rileytg on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:45PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm constantly building new static sites, deployed using github pages (not enough control over my sites, goes down easily) and s3 (pain in the ass generally). I now need a better option because everything i find is FTP deploy which is lame. I want git or some other cross platform cli & gui way to deploy. Any suggestions?

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by darron on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:42PM (#7098201)

We're building a backend using Docker that can do just that. It's called octohost and there's lots of information available here: http://www.octohost.io/

We have a static template that you can see here: https://github.com/octohost/html

You can also use all sorts of other languages/frameworks - a full list is here: http://www.octohost.io/languages

Deploys use git.

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by mbleigh on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:43PM (#7098205)

We're building http://www.divshot.io/ to be exactly this. Currently in private beta and will be launching soon (in fact, anyone who sees this just shoot us an email and we'll let you in).

CDN-accelerated, automatic development and staging environments for every app, SSL support...take a look!

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by krrishd on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @10:38AM (#7103151)

Wait, so just to be clear, divshot.com is the editor, and the divshot.io part is kind of a PaaS for static sites? Seems pretty exciting for front-end development :)

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by mbleigh on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @02:37AM (#7135890)

Yup, you got it. Sorry it took me a bit to see this post.

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by rtcoms on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @01:38AM (#7101178)

You can use heroku to host static website. Although it's a hack, but very simple and should not be a problem.

http://www.lemiffe.com/how-to-deploy-a-static-page-to-heroku...

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by benologist on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:52PM (#7097356)

Use a single-dino Heroku to receive the latest push and have the dino deploy the appropriate folders to S3 for you?

I don't know of an existing way to do that but it would be a negligible amount of code + amazon sdk in most languages.

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by theuiguru on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:03PM (#7097898)

http://harp.io (@HarpPlatform) powered by http://harps.com (@HarpWebServer). A “Zero configuration publishing platform."

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by krrishd on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @10:32AM (#7103096)

http://HarpJS.com is the URL, not harps.com :)

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by AznHisoka on Friday January 24, 2014 @01:21PM (#7116427)

Why is FTP lame? It works. Just select your folder, FTP it, go get some coffee, and wa-la, it's up!

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by arkokoley on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @01:51PM (#7097349)

bitballoon.com is your best bet! Deploys are via Git and every commit is there, so you can revert to a previous state if u mess up. Plus if u dnt like git, deploy via uploading a zip of the site.

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Re:Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites? by darron on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:56PM (#7098300)

This is pretty awesome. Never heard of them until today - looks interesting.

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