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GitHub pages seem to be about the simplest way to do this today - bringing the goodness of basic source control, simple issue management, and related.

canadianwriter 4y ago
Yup! I use Github pages as my "CMS" for my pure HTML static site (https://kolemcrae.com https://kolemcrae.com) works beautifully!
ExtraE 4y ago
I have a fair number of sites on Github pages but I've ended up migrating most of them to Netlify (which is a very easy process) when I've needed more features, like wildcard ssl or multiple domains. Still haven't paid a cent!
- vmception 4y ago
  for my sites that expect an occasional burst of traffic, I moved all the media assets to IPFS and served by one of the gateway that functions as CDN for IPFS stuff. this circumvents Netlify's bandwidth metering and all the users retrieving the IPFS assets keeps the IPFS assets loading quickly
  - dvasdekis 4y ago
    How did you do this? Is there a tutorial that you followed? I would love to do the same, potentially with Cloudflare further caching the IPFS-hosted files.
    - vmception 4y ago
      Although Pinata offers a SaaS service where you pay them monthly to pin and they charge for bandwidth, web3.storage lets you pin 1 Tib for free and without bandwidth metering. So I pinned there, and then got the hash and found the gateway+cdn with low ping time and just concatenate the url, which I hardcode in the frontend note, I append ?filename=filename.extension to the url to keep track of which hash is what ironically Pinata is also a gateway that will show any hash for free then I just deploy the whole project/frontend/backend to github and that auto deploys to netlify and the domain name routes to that instance
cellularmitosis 4y ago
Another lightweight github-based approach is to just link together a bunch of gists: https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/fdac60efe210d1cee26391b4a3beb891 https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/fdac60efe210d1cee263...

canadianwriter 4y ago

Yup! I use Github pages as my "CMS" for my pure HTML static site (https://kolemcrae.com https://kolemcrae.com) works beautifully!

ExtraE 4y ago

I have a fair number of sites on Github pages but I've ended up migrating most of them to Netlify (which is a very easy process) when I've needed more features, like wildcard ssl or multiple domains. Still haven't paid a cent!

vmception 4y ago
for my sites that expect an occasional burst of traffic, I moved all the media assets to IPFS and served by one of the gateway that functions as CDN for IPFS stuff. this circumvents Netlify's bandwidth metering and all the users retrieving the IPFS assets keeps the IPFS assets loading quickly
- dvasdekis 4y ago
  How did you do this? Is there a tutorial that you followed? I would love to do the same, potentially with Cloudflare further caching the IPFS-hosted files.
  - vmception 4y ago
    Although Pinata offers a SaaS service where you pay them monthly to pin and they charge for bandwidth, web3.storage lets you pin 1 Tib for free and without bandwidth metering. So I pinned there, and then got the hash and found the gateway+cdn with low ping time and just concatenate the url, which I hardcode in the frontend note, I append ?filename=filename.extension to the url to keep track of which hash is what ironically Pinata is also a gateway that will show any hash for free then I just deploy the whole project/frontend/backend to github and that auto deploys to netlify and the domain name routes to that instance

cellularmitosis 4y ago

Another lightweight github-based approach is to just link together a bunch of gists: https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/fdac60efe210d1cee26391b4a3beb891 https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/fdac60efe210d1cee263...