Hacker News Reader

Hacker News

Comment by TazeTSchnitzel | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

TazeTSchnitzel

Heroku for a static site? Sounds like overkill. On my VPS I just do this:

1. Have public git repo, clone on server

2. Run nginx pointing to htdocs folder in git repo

3. When I want to deploy, ssh in and git pull

Works just fine. Sure, it's a public site on GitHub, but I could just as easily run a git server.

View on HN

I just git push to the server from my laptop over SSH. No need for a git server (or Github, for that matter).

I should really try that... thanks!

Edit: Oh wow, I didn't realise I could just do this:

  git push ssh://example.com/git/repo

SSH is the transport you're using when you use github.

git@github.com:git/repo.git tells git to SSH using the 'git' user.

This is what I do. Works great!

can you explain more about the nginx thing? Since it's a GitHub repo, why you need a web server?

Oh, I guess I could use GitHub hosting, but I wanted to host it on my own server. (I actually have a good reason to - I needed to access a WebSocket server on the same origin)

I think the big advantage for people wanting to host a site on Heroku is they explicitly DON'T need their "own server".

I don't see the advantage of that. For small static sites I don't think it's much more hassle to put CloudFlare in front of your server. The advantage of such services is scaling up dynamic sites easily.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com