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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-14 at 20:12

Is Netlify a good service for hosting a static site? I'm curious because they will pull from Github when the site changes, so all I need to do to publish is push to Github. I'm looking for a place that won't grind to a halt under load.

I looked at Github pages and it won't work for me, so don't suggest that.

Or is there a way for my server to know when I pushed to github and pull and host it myself. I'd rather do that, but I haven't found a way.

Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious.

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Written by miunau on 2025-01-14 at 20:13

@grumpygamer they can hit you with bandwidth fees that aren't so nice. cloudflare pages is an ok choice, it can do the git workflow too

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Written by mms :runbsd: + :emacs: :vim: on 2025-01-14 at 20:13

@grumpygamer github actions can Hugo build and rsync anywhere.

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Written by Andrew Haining :directx: on 2025-01-14 at 20:14

@grumpygamer you can add a post submit hook to post to your webserver and trigger a cgi script to fetch from git - https://git-scm.com/docs/githooks

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Written by Richard Smith on 2025-01-14 at 20:15

@grumpygamer I use render.com. It can connect to GitHub and I also use Hugo. Really simple, never been down once in 4 years. I almost suggested it the other day but wasn’t sure you were using GitHub.

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Written by Vile Lasagna on 2025-01-14 at 20:15

@grumpygamer it's probably easier to deploy the site from your git host through a CI job instead

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Written by Paul Hebert on 2025-01-14 at 20:16

@grumpygamer Netlify has worked well for me in the past for work and personal projects.

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Written by Dustin Metzgar on 2025-01-14 at 20:30

@paulhebert @grumpygamer same for me. I use Netlify with Hugo on the free tier. My blog doesn't have much traffic so I've never had a problem.

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Written by Саша Морс, here we go again... on 2025-01-14 at 20:17

@grumpygamer curious why it wouldn't work, but you could do the same with an s3 bucket + github action or lambda function

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-14 at 20:20

@alexmorse I don't like AWS.

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Written by Саша Морс, here we go again... on 2025-01-14 at 20:22

@grumpygamer I'd probably pull the trigger with netlify and try not to get a huge amount of traffic

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Written by Balthazar on 2025-01-14 at 20:19

@grumpygamer

I had that set up once but then realized I can just push my built website files with sftp. Faster results with less in between steps that try to charge you

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Written by Ron Gilbert, Esq. on 2025-01-14 at 20:20

@baltauger I do that now. It's probably good enough.

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Written by Balthazar on 2025-01-14 at 20:52

@grumpygamer

I mean I do think Netlify+GitHub makes sense if it's a website that's being updated by different people potentially at the same time. In my case (blog updated monthlyish) it added more hassle than it saved

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Written by Ric on 2025-01-14 at 20:20

@grumpygamer you can do this super easily through Plesk, if you have that installed to your server.

Install the Git extension, give it the url of your github instance and it'll give you a webhook url. Drop that into Github and any time you push files to the repo, it'll automatically notify Plesk which in turn will pull the changes to your server.

https://www.plesk.com/kb/docs/using-remote-git-hosting-use-webhooks-for-automatic-pull/

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Written by Fynn Ellie Becker on 2025-01-14 at 20:21

@grumpygamer I use Netlify for a handful of static sites and have had zero issues so far. I use so little bandwidth that the free tier has been enough, so I can’t say anything about their paid options.

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Written by Robin Ward on 2025-01-14 at 20:32

@grumpygamer I use netlify for static sites and have had problems so far! It seems great. I suspect load is easy to handle with static sites.

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Written by BinaryUnit on 2025-01-14 at 20:33

@grumpygamer I followed this guide quite some time ago but I do believe it is still valid regarding git hooks and hugo specifically, hope it helps

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-hugo-site-to-production-with-git-hooks-on-ubuntu-14-04

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Written by Dave Menninger ⚡ on 2025-01-14 at 20:39

@grumpygamer I use Netlify for this without any problems. I connected up gitlab rather than GitHub, but otherwise the same. Push to repo -> static site deploys. And fwiw, I can use my own domain.

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Written by Dirk Eibach on 2025-01-14 at 20:42

@grumpygamer I am also using Hugo and the GitHub CI to deploy. Check here: https://github.com/ZeroMips/zeromips-website

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Written by Dek 👨‍🚀🐧🚀 ( on 2025-01-14 at 20:43

@grumpygamer

github actions that publish the changed site?

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Written by Future Sprog on 2025-01-14 at 20:45

Depends how much YAML and shell you want to stitch the entire thing together?

A GitHub Action that triggers something on your web server to pull from GitHub?

I'm currently envisioning 50 lines of YAML (mostly boilerplate) and half a dozen lines of bash ... but likely it'll end up being more than that!

@grumpygamer

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Written by razze on 2025-01-14 at 20:46

@grumpygamer netlify has been sponsoring hosting for kodi.tv for the last years and I can't remember problems.

You could also use github webhooks to notify your server if you push.

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Written by Carlos Fdez Llamas on 2025-01-14 at 20:47

@grumpygamer If you don’t mind the delay, a cron job every 5-10 minutes that pulls and builds the website might work for you.

Reacting to changes involves having some kind of webhook (like https://github.com/adnanh/webhook) with an extra shared secret

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Written by Chris Armstrong on 2025-01-14 at 21:10

@grumpygamer I’ve found Vercel to be more reliable (and nicer to use) than Netlify, though I’ve also heard Cloudflare Pages can do GitHub deploys https://youtu.be/O4jV8Zz2w9I?si=lyDrUii74Tzm4Ym7

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Written by Joni Korpi on 2025-01-14 at 21:13

@grumpygamer Netlify is fine, but Cloudflare Pages does the same thing and has a better, unlimited free tier.

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Written by Max on 2025-01-14 at 21:16

@grumpygamer If your disinterest in GitHub Pages was Jekyll and/or “strict” folder/branch/repo layout, that’s no longer the case since GitHub Pages moved to GitHub Actions (I have lume site in a “monorepo” deployed to GHP right now). The documentation hasn’t kept up with the GH Actions powers

But also GH Actions with elbow grease can deploy anywhere, Netlify, Surge, your own host via sftp or whatever

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Written by Lord on 2025-01-14 at 21:16

@grumpygamer I use hugo and host its pages to a small web server at home but it could be anywhere.

I run hugo locally. I have a post-hook on git push where i render the website, optimize images, compress webpages, generate a search index and then upload those files to the webserver with rsync (a bit faster). Nothing installed on the server. Just hugo and the small tools on my local machine + rsync (with ssh).

Then each time i edit the blog, i just git add the new markdown files, git commit it and then git push. You just need to find a webserver where you can upload static files (the cheapest thing to host). As it's only static http it doesn't need anything expensive. Any hoster would work.

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Written by sbszine on 2025-01-14 at 22:00

@grumpygamer Github actions should be able to tell Hugo to do its thing

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Written by Claudius on 2025-01-14 at 22:47

@grumpygamer with GitHub actions, you can set up pretty much whatever you want after a push. I used to have a "build this particular static site generator based thing and then rsync it to my own server" running before I switched away from GitHub.

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Written by knack on 2025-01-14 at 23:14

@grumpygamer github offers webhooks ( see https://github.com///settings/hooks ), which lets your server get notified when github receives a push

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Written by Tyler Sticka on 2025-01-14 at 23:58

@grumpygamer Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, etc. are the easiest.

I have also successfully set up a GitHub Action to rsync to a server automatically by storing the relevant SSH key as a “Secret” and using this action: https://github.com/shimataro/ssh-key-action

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Written by neilzilla on 2025-01-15 at 00:03

@grumpygamer you can use github's webhooks to call a script on your server to pull, or you can write a github action to publish your site on push

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Written by Zeh Fernando on 2025-01-15 at 01:57

@grumpygamer netlify is great, that's what I use for that sort of stuff. I also dig the (static) stats, so I don't need any trackers.

That said, there's likely cheaper options if you go down the route of doing it yourself a bit more manually, like GitHub actions or whatever to auto deploy

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Written by Kfir Breger on 2025-01-15 at 06:17

@grumpygamer digital ocean has a thing (I think it’s apps) where for free (for the first 3 apps) you can connect a GitHub repo and they will publish it for you, take care of the certificate etc.

I have it listening to the public directory of my Hugo site on main branch. So every time I push an updated build on main, within a minute or 2 it’s live.

Very simple to set up and is free. The disadvantage is you need to build locally, and have the public also in your repo.

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Written by Lorenz Bauer on 2025-01-15 at 08:23

@grumpygamer https://docs.letsdisco.dev/ makes it easy to self host something like this. I recommend this amazing presentation from one of its creators: https://youtu.be/z2lP7C8VT6M?feature=shared

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Written by gustavo on 2025-01-15 at 09:48

@grumpygamer Hi

Since I already had a Cloudflare free account, I'm using Pages (Cloudflare's) to do exactly what you want: I push to github and around 15, 20 seconds later, the site is refreshed.

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Written by David Brownman on 2025-01-16 at 04:59

@grumpygamer yeah, it's great! I host all my static stuff there. It pulls from GitHub and runs the build for me. Whole thing is super convenient.

They also now have a free-only mode, so your site will go down before they charge you anything. That's personally the tradeoof I want. That said, I've never gotten close to their free limits.

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