hosting(3/0)
Host a social site
As my desire to form multi-cultural, local/international communities grows, tutorials like Run Your Own Social Site are increasingly appealing.
Host a webhook server
If you’ve followed the steps to self hosting, you’ve got a static site you can build and deploy to your local server. The process is simple and entirely within your control, but it does limit how you add posts to your website. If you just want to put a quick note up on your site, you’ve got to access the laptop from which you’ve built the website, write a new post, publish the update, and pull the update on our local server.…
SSG is a developer tool
While I agree with much of Florens’ critique, I think the static site concept has a different purpose than he suggests. I think static site generators (SSGs) are a response by the developer community to the complications that have arisen from client-heavy websites. If non-developer users find them difficult to use, it’s not really a critique since they aren’t the intended audience. At its best, an SSG should be one step in a development pipeline; more like a developer tool than an all-in-one website builder.…