[HN Gopher] Static site hosting hurdles
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       Static site hosting hurdles
        
       Author : ciprian_craciun
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-09-05 22:01 UTC (58 minutes ago)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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.
        
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