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Comment by _joel | Hacker News Reader

Caddy and self-hosting's cool and all, but I think I'd miss push to git to deploy and just not having to manage 'stuff'. Although, I did move a site from netlify to cloudflare (free) and still have this facility.

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If your content is static anyway, you can just rsync to deploy instead of push to deploy:

    rsync -e "ssh -p $(SSH_PORT)" -P -rvzc --cvs-exclude --delete $(LOCAL_CONTENT) $(SSH_USER)@$(SSH_HOST):$(REMOTE_DIR)

Self-hosting then essentially just means doing apt install nginx once.

That would expose .git, unless other nginx config masked it. cvs-exclude is for cvs, right?

It was for cvs, because rsync is old, but nowadays also filters out .git, .svn, .hg etc.

In any case this is supposed to only sync the rendered content from $(LOCAL_CONTENT), not the templates used for rendering.

You think they'd change the name to vcs-exclude, then.

Backwards compatibility.

Can retain that and add a vcs-exclude, right?

You could setup a github action(if your repo is hosted on Github) or use something like gitea in your local environment to manage your repo and then you push changes to that gitea repo, it has an action runner like github's which does all the automating stuff for you.

It is only one time setup pain point, after that you are all set.

Yeah this, I too prefer hosting static websites via static storage or CDN, rather than having to operate anything.

CloudFlare Pages is great, and so is GitHub Pages for developer websites.

I also vouch for CF Pages! Killer features for $0.

EXCEPT redirects of .html to / (slash) that you can't control.

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