Ask HN: heroku-like service for static websites?

4 points by rileytg 12y ago ↗ HN

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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arkokoley 12y ago ↗

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.

darron 12y ago ↗

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

benologist 12y ago ↗

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.

theuiguru 12y ago ↗

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

krrishd 12y ago ↗

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

darron 12y ago ↗

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.

mbleigh 12y ago ↗

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!

krrishd 12y ago ↗

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 :)

mbleigh 12y ago ↗

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

rtcoms 12y ago ↗

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...

AznHisoka 12y ago ↗

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