{"id":4672,"date":"2019-12-11T11:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T11:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2024-12-04T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:24:19","slug":"static-page-web-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/static-page-web-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Static page web sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a video that suggested using google drive as a web hosting solution<\/a>. This seemed quite a neat idea. I need to examine if I lose anything by not having a web server in-front of it, probably not; there is one which is run and configured by Google. It would however require a static page site. Another reason for having a look at these. Here are my notes.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/h3>\n

Static Page sites are fast and the infrastructure is simple. The alternatives tend to have databases. We are also back to the compiler\/interpreter dichotomy, a static site will be generated once and its output served by the httpd (like a compiler) whereas,\u00a0 a CMS will generate the HTML as each page is called (like an interpreter) from various sources which requires both CPU cycles & interproccess communication overheads.<\/p>\n

This article is written by someone who’s moved off<\/a> them because of the\u00a0 need for a binary execution environment on the authoring device\u00a0 but he also identifies github actions<\/a> as means of minimising this part of the problem<\/p>\n

The former solution may mandate a dev\/deploy\/prod architecture and management and using a database or an sccs to help with concurrency if one has a big team.<\/p>\n

What’s around?<\/h3>\n

I found this, which categorises the best static website generators<\/a>, from freecodecamp.org. They look at Jekyll, Gatsby, Hugo, Hexo and Wintersmith. I looked at Hugo<\/a> in May 2018. These five are written in Ruby<\/em> or node.js<\/em>, except Hugo, both of which will require an installation on Windows and Linux. (Hugo is written in Go<\/em>, which also requires such an installation.) The article is unclear as to whether these products are free.<\/p>\n

They like Gatsby because it’s popular.<\/p>\n

One selection criteria will be the availability of templates. Themeforest have a bunch for Jekyll,\u00a0 non-free but that’s their business model.<\/p>\n

It would seem they got their short-list from\u00a0staticsite generators .net<\/a>\u00a0, some of which seem to have gone, and most of which will require a 3rd party product to woek, although it’s not that surprising and Python comes with most distros of Linux. I found Eleventy<\/a>\u00a0, which looks simple to use in itself, but may require a significant number of template files, although perhaps it could be done using CSS.<\/p>\n

I seem to remember that a site generator was released with the now defunct Hot Metal Pro<\/a>. Perhaps they let them go to early?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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