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by epmaybe 2245 days ago
To be honest, GitHub sites have been amazing for me. I just have a simple static website with personal information. HTML and CSS with minimal JS. Purchasing a shared webhost still means extra cost on top of domain registration. With GitHub, I just followed their instructions with my domain, and everything just worked. I'm also not paying anything per month or year besides domain registration which is really nice when you have to start budgeting tightly.

I don't know about docker and all of that, though.
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gen3 2245 days ago
It’s been awesome for me too. I’ve had a static site hosted on github since high school. It’s been a cheap way to host a website for free (I use github + cloudflare) since before I had a credit card. I’m willing to bet it helped me get at least one of my internships.

It’s been a great way for me to learn, as I’ve re-written the site every 2 years or so.

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1337shadow 2245 days ago
With GitLab Pages it's even easier, just fork one of the examples in gitlab.com/pages, push a content update in a commit and it's online a minute later thanks to GitLab-CI and GitLab Pages.
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epmaybe 2245 days ago
This workflow seems almost exactly the same as GitHub Pages, I'm not sure it's worth my time to switch platforms and go through the hassle when everything works now.
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