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by brooksgarrett
4092 days ago
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How is this different from GitHub hosted source(Free), compiled by TravisCI (Free), hosted in S3($15/year), secured byand fronted by CloudFlare (Free). This is my setup (minus CloudFlare for CDN). http://brooksgarrett.com/blog/jekyll-github-travisci-s3/ Is the value in simply abstracting away the (fairly technical) setup which would normally be a barrier for non technical businesses? |
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Our big vision is to make static sites a viable mainstream alternative to Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, etc, etc. Especially for all the people out there building sites professionally, whether they're agencies or lone freelancers.
Static sites are faster, safer, cheaper and simpler and for 90%+ of all the sites out there, they ought to be the default.
But you can't make static sites a mainstream alternative if the recipe for starting a new project is going to at least 4 different services and configure each of them, have plans with each of them, etc, etc. That's just a setup story that's so far behind just picking a Wordpress host and doing a new CPanel install that it's not even funny.
Our big goal is to make starting a new project with a static site generator just as easy as starting a new Wordpress based project. There's still some pieces of that puzzle missing, especially when it comes to collaborating with non-technical content editors, but we'll be presenting solutions to those as well.
Apart from that, typically people building sites or apps professionally have a pretty clear value put on their time, and simply having a one-click option that will setup everything and give you the best build/deploy and CDN performance, is typically easily worth the price whether they're building websites or single page apps.