We’re excited to introduce email notifications on build failures for your
sites on statichost.eu. Now, when a build fails, you and your teammates can
receive an immediate alert straight to your inbox, helping you pinpoint and fix
issues faster.
This is especially important for those of you who want to be alerted when a
daily build or CMS-triggered build failed.
What’s new?
Simply visit your site’s Settings in the dashboard and add any email
addresses you want to receive failure notifications. That’s it! From then on, if
a build doesn’t go as planned, those addresses get notified automatically. You
can customize this recipient list at any time.
TL;DR
We now only upload changed files to our edge infrastructure, making the
deployment step considerably faster for large sites. Also, redundant builds
are now automatically canceled in order to avoid unneccessary build minute
usage.
Introduction
For all of you with large sites, I have some good news: deployment times are now
much faster! Statichost.eu started out as a simple static site hosting platform
for my own needs - having a trustworthy place to host my own sites (and those of
my clients). Most sites were built using Hugo, which is
generally very very very fast. Most were also blogs or marketing sites, i.e. at
most a hundred or so pages. More importantly, nothing media-heavy.
Recent discussions on Hacker News
highlight the need for trust and personal service - something that is often
lacking on the Internet. In this particular case, a static site host issued
a bill exceeding $100k for a personal blog, triggering a widespread debate on
pricing fairness and transparency.
TL;DR: We would never send a bill like that, for sure. To be completely
honest, while our pricing seems very specific, at the moment what we actually
do is bill manually. We check each site periodically, and if traffic for a site
starts getting over the free limit, we contact the owner to set up payment and
discuss options. In any case, we want to avoid surprises for our customers.
A while back when I was excitedly telling my wife about my achievments of the
day, she asked me what this “refactoring” that I’ve been up to means. “Well,
it’s when you change a bunch of stuff in your code, but what your program
actually does stays exactly the same.” Luckily, she’s a very organized person,
and immediately understood the point when I tried to explain it through the old
keeping your tools organized and building a house metaphors. But it made me
wonder a bit myself - was this really a productive day? After spending almost
all of last weeks’ development time on refactoring, I feel confident in saying:
yes, a refactoring day is a productive day.
This is a guest post by one of our community members. Thank you for your engagement!
Note
Hi, my name is Roman and I am a hobbyist at web hosting. I might sometime not use the correct wording here or state some contradicting things.
Please note that I am not advertising any of the brands below. I mention them only so you can follow my steps. There might be plenty of other services.
The objective
I created a webpage using bootstrap (html+css+JavaScript). There is no build process needed here. I wanted to host this webpage but being GDPR-compliant. The hoster should be in the European Union. And happily I found statichost. Here I explain what I did to successfully have my personal webpage up and running.
As our first site showcase, I just had to go with this Matrix animation by our
user fabioarnold! The animation looks almost
identical to that in the movie, and as an avid fan, I’ve seen a few when looking
for Matrix screensavers back in the day.
The thing you are looking at is a representation of “The Matrix”. According to
the character “Cypher”, there is too much information in the Matrix to decode
into a more visual representation, which is why this is what they look at all
day in the movie.
By
Eric Selin - Founder, statichost.eu
Originally posted at webperf.se
on
This post is only available in Swedish
Din server snurrar på. Inga problem - eller?
Ja, ganska säkert i alla fall - du har ju monitorering som följer med om något händer. Och inget har hänt ännu. Eller nån gång, kanske, men det löste du snabbt. Monitoreringen fungerade inte helt 100 då, men nu är det bättre. Databasen fungerar likaså, allt är fint konfigurerat. Det fungerade ju bra sist du testade för inte många dagar sedan. Eller var det över en vecka sedan, vem minns sådant? I och för sig borde du uppdatera en massa program och grejer, förstås. Men det har du inte tid för nu. Det får bli nästa vecka. Inga problem - eller?
By
Eric Selin - Founder, statichost.eu
Originally posted at ericselin.dev
on
We made everything too complicated. We do this, us developers. It’s fun to invent a new and better way to do things. And to use all the “new things”. But I think this is the time to stop and think about what we are doing. One of those things is treating every website like an app - although most sites are nothing of the sort.
The web was designed for documents
The World Wide Web (www) was designed to be a collection of documents that could be linked together. And ever since its inception, the www worked this way. Even the most cutting edge modern browsers are optimized for this.
