Scar
Infrastructure
static site hosting
SHOW HN2019
363points
170comments
#72of 2,195 in 2019
Top 4%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 17 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score -0.26.
Idea: 2 for, 8 againstExecution: 2 for, 4 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Similar design to the commenter's own project, a sign the approach is sound
From 2 comments
Looks very similar to my project https://github.com/kkuchta/scarr from a while back. It even uses the same acronym (I assume that's just a coincidence, since we both just picked…
fishtoaster on HNWow, that is a fun coincidence! Indeed, I was going for a catchy four-letter acronym in the same vein as popular stacks like LAMP or MEAN. Perhaps the fact that we both landed on…
cloudkj on HN
Bundling config and launch makes setup easier
From 1 comment
Bundling service config and launch makes the whole process easier, for sure. There's also more than one way to configure this depending on what your needs are, so it'd be cool to…
kaiku on HN
Objections
Too many AWS services and too complex for a static site
From 4 comments
TL;DR this is an AWS stack with 10 AWS services required to build/deploy a static site with HTTPS/CDN I will be staying with netlify
blairanderson on HNI have a two-line Makefile that with one target that sync's my website with an S3 bucket. Deploys are instant. The rest is handled by Cloudflare an AWS. The sheer number of…
whalesalad on HNThis is highly complex for no reason. GitHubPages, Netify provide you with easy to use custom static page hosting. Your abstraction is nice, but the learning curve for someone is…
shapiro92 on HNThis seems like a nightmare to setup and maintain for a new comer. Netlify lets us setup things in a whiff. This is a nice project but not for anyone below intermediate.
vijaybritto on HN
Netlify, GitHub Pages or Firebase are simpler alternatives
From 4 comments
GitHub pages [0] gives you static sites with HTTPS and a custom domain without nearly as much complexity as this if you're looking for an alternative to Netlify. [0]…
jaden on HNWhat benefit does this have over Netlify?
t0astbread on HNHow is this any different from Firebase hosting? We have been using it for a while with no problem. Also comes with a very generous free tier.
tamalsaha001 on HNJust use Netlify.
faheel on HN
S3 does not serve index.html for parent directory URLs
From 1 comment
Bundling service config and launch makes the whole process easier, for sure. There's also more than one way to configure this depending on what your needs are, so it'd be cool to…
kaiku on HN
Requests
A hosted version of the service
From 1 comment
For anyone looking for a hosted solution, https://surge.sh/ is super nice and simple without any of the complexity of managing the stack yourself. Deploying uses one simple…
iBelieve on HN
Variants of the default stack, such as www redirects or removing www
From 1 comment
That should indeed be the default behavior out of the box with the way the S3 buckets are configured. I have a couple Jekyll sites deployed this way, and a request to the parent…
cloudkj on HN
Questions
What does it cost per month to run
From 3 comments
How much does this cost? I put in some more effort to setup my HAProxy and nginx containers on a Vultr node, but I get LetsEncrypt for free, so I'm just paying for a Vultr node…
djsumdog on HNHow much should this cost per month in AWS billing for a small static website?
srathi on HNAnyone have an a average monthly fee for using these as hosting solution? last time i ran the numbers using all that services go from 5 to 10 USD per month and was better to use…
SadWebDeveloper on HN
Whether a CDN is needed for a static site at all
From 2 comments
Nice project. As an aside, I genuinely wonder under which circumstances a CDN will be useful for a static website nowadays. I have a static website that has been on the HN…
gvand on HNOther than the notion that all traffic should be served over HTTPs, if you have purely static site, why the big fuss?
ryanisnan on HN
Alternatives named
Netlify
From 3 comments
We use a combination of Netlify + Webflow + Hugo for our website (www.facetdev.com). With that we get a global CDN and our website will never go down. Netlify has been awesome…
rsweeney21 on HNTL;DR this is an AWS stack with 10 AWS services required to build/deploy a static site with HTTPS/CDN I will be staying with netlify
blairanderson on HNJust use Netlify.
faheel on HN
GitHub Pages
From 1 comment
GitHub pages [0] gives you static sites with HTTPS and a custom domain without nearly as much complexity as this if you're looking for an alternative to Netlify. [0]…
jaden on HN
Firebase hosting
From 1 comment
How is this any different from Firebase hosting? We have been using it for a while with no problem. Also comes with a very generous free tier.
tamalsaha001 on HN
Surge.sh
From 1 comment
For anyone looking for a hosted solution, https://surge.sh/ is super nice and simple without any of the complexity of managing the stack yourself. Deploying uses one simple…
iBelieve on HN
Self-hosted nginx on a VPS
From 2 comments
Am I the only one who still hosts my own static sites on a plain old virtual machine? It's pretty simple to configure nginx for static sites, and by doing it yourself you reduce…
NateEag on HNyes. I host my personal website (maddo.xxx) on a single EC2 instance with just nginx. It's easy. It's fast. When I want to over-engineer the shit out of it for fun, it's ready.…
tyre on HN