<story><title>Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains</title><url>https://github.com/cloudkj/scar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NateEag</author><text>Am I the only one who still hosts my own static sites on a plain old virtual machine?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty simple to configure nginx for static sites, and by doing it yourself you reduce vendor lockin to just about nil.&lt;p&gt;Even if S3 is massively cheaper, $5&amp;#x2F;month for a tiny VM seems like a small price to pay for being vendor-abstract.&lt;p&gt;I suppose S3 is way less likely to suffer a meaningful outage than my little VM, but how many 9s do my personal websites actually need?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clintonb</author><text>Maintenance is my primary concern. I deal with software for a living. I want my blog to just work without me having to worry about maintaining the VM. Netlify makes this dead simple.&lt;p&gt;I used to host Wordpress sites for myself and family members. I&amp;#x27;ve now moved nearly all of those sites to Netlify (for hosting) and Forestry (for editing&amp;#x2F;CMS). I no longer have to worry about malicious hacking attempts, Wordpress updates, or anything else outside of the site content.&lt;p&gt;Here is my post on this transition for those interested: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.clintonblackburn.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;wordpress-to-jekyll&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dev.clintonblackburn.com&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;31&amp;#x2F;wordpress-to-jek...&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Scar – Static websites with HTTPS, a global CDN, and custom domains</title><url>https://github.com/cloudkj/scar</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>NateEag</author><text>Am I the only one who still hosts my own static sites on a plain old virtual machine?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty simple to configure nginx for static sites, and by doing it yourself you reduce vendor lockin to just about nil.&lt;p&gt;Even if S3 is massively cheaper, $5&amp;#x2F;month for a tiny VM seems like a small price to pay for being vendor-abstract.&lt;p&gt;I suppose S3 is way less likely to suffer a meaningful outage than my little VM, but how many 9s do my personal websites actually need?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WhiteOwlLion</author><text>There are some low end VPS providers too that go as low as $1&amp;#x2F;mo. I usually stick to $2&amp;#x2F;mo or higher just for stability, reliability. Even you even got hosts like Hetzner Cloud, Scaleway (see European hosts) that provide great service, bandwidth, and VPS. I don&amp;#x27;t know why people use Amazon... I don&amp;#x27;t find their value proposition very good unless you need dynamic scaling for unpredictable demand.</text></comment>