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Divshot has joined Firebase

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I've been using http://surge.sh for the past year or so and love it. Features include:

   * free custom domains
   * clean URLs and supports for SPAs
   * simple deployment
   * collaboration features

CORS support seems to be paid-only. Oh well.

Congrats to the Divshot crew. For those who are looking for an alternative and comfortable on the command line, you can try out surge.sh. Custom domain's are free and we are 100% bootstrapped. Open to your feedback.

Biggest change is now you'll have to pay $5/month to use a custom domain name.

Know any free alternative for a simple static site but with a custom domain name?

https://www.netlify.com

Check out http://surge.sh

It doesn't differentiate deploy environments or offer environment variables, but it's still young, and everything else about it is awesome so far.

https://pages.github.com

Divshot co-founder here. Firebase Hosting is opinionated in being HTTPS-only, and we automatically provision an SSL certificate for your custom domain. The cost of doing so is the reason we're unable to offer custom domains for free.

Which you can't opt out of, even if you've already paid for wildcard certs? Not that $5/mo is a particularly onerous weight, but still.

Or if you're on Divshot's $20/mo plan, the best equivalent is $49/mo at Firebase.

And "we're confident that nearly all the features at Divshot you'll find at Firebase"?!? What does that mean?

"Migrate, and hopefully you won't be surprised by missing something that you used!" Come on, they could at least give us details.

> Divshot will shut down existing products and services on Monday, December 14, 2015

aw, man... my consulting web page is hosted there. Now I've gotta move it - costs $5 for a custom domain at Firebase.

Github Pages is always free.

[Firebase Cofounder] The reason <your_app>.firebaseapp.com sites are free and custom domains are $5/mo with Firebase Hosting is HTTPS-only. Our cost-of-goods-sold includes auto-provisioning the SSL cert for the domain.

Part of our philosophy is providing services that work well, and hopefully better, together. Our realtime database only accepts SSL connections and doing the same with Hosting means when you build on Firebase your whole app is encrypted by default.

We're excited to use Divshot's tech make Firebase Hosting even better going forward.

A couple of features that Firebase Hosting is going to drop with the Divshot migration is API Proxying (https://docs.divshot.com/services/proxy) and Prerender (https://docs.divshot.com/services/prerender). That's really too bad. :-(

Prerender is being worked on for FIrebase Hosting :)

Another one for http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Co-founder of netlify here. We're getting hit pretty heavily right now, with links to people asking for what alternatives to divshot exists, and what you need from a hosting service that specializes in static sites and apps.

So thought I'd post here both congratulating James and Divshot, and secondly (of course) tell a bit about our service, and what we think a hosting service for static site should be able to provide.

At netlify we have a multilayered CDN, which makes us faster than anyone else at the moment. At the same time it enables us to have true instant cache invalidation. That means that your changes to a static site is live in 1 second, but only the affected files get invalidated - the rest stays cached. All deploys are atomic, and there's never a chance end users will browse an broken version of your site.

We also do continuous deployment. That means every time you push to git (GitHub, GitLabs, BitBucket or your selfhosted git-repo), we automatically build and deploy the new version of your site. It doesn't matter if you use static site generators or build tools like grunt, gulp, Ember CLI, etc...

Besides this we have a ton of features like API proxying, rewrites and redirect rules, HTTP2, SSL (both SNI and full), staging sites, password protection, DNS hosting, Geo IP based redirect, choose between CLI or drag'n'drop interface, advanced DDOS protection, a full REST API for all features and much more.

Good luck, looks like your login is down.

GET https://api.netlify.com/api/v1/sites?page=1&per_page=50 401 (Unauthorized)

Olark is returning 403, too.

Not sure what's up with that - Olark's been online all day (I know, it's been busy with the divshot news) and our API has had no issues (again, we've been seeing lots of activity).

The API call you list there is only available with an authorization token, so it's supposed to give a 401 unless you're logged in...

Feel free to ping me directly if you're still having trouble: matt@netlify.com

Sorry about that, corporate proxy weirdness. It's working fine via my phone.

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