Show HN: Staticland – Open source static site hosting with SSL via Let's Encrypt

This looks like a nice idea but it&#x27;s a bit unfortunate about the name clash with <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rpominov&#x2F;static-land" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rpominov&#x2F;static-land</a><p>Edit: Dear downvoters, normally it&#x27;d be unlikely for the name clash to matter, but because these are both JS libraries, both available on npm, it&#x27;s the difference between `npm install static-land` and `npm install staticland` which would be an easy mistake for anyone to make.

Another alternative is to deploy to S3&#x2F;Cloudfront using Stout (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stout.is" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stout.is</a>).

Clever :-) Glad to see another solution out there!<p>Myelf -- I&#x27;ve migrated almost all personal and small projects over to a self-hosted dokku instance. All of the static sites run this buildpack: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dokku&#x2F;buildpack-nginx" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dokku&#x2F;buildpack-nginx</a><p>This has been a real timesaver as dealing with S3 static sites was just a pain. Added bonus is I have more granular control of nginx (if I want it)

Netlify is a good option, too, with continuous deployment and SSL. It&#x27;s free for open source projects.

Is this primarily for static sites like Jekyll and Hugo? If so, could you add some kind of tutorial on how to get my Jekyll blog hosted on static.land? I&#x27;m not familiar with node, and your docs don&#x27;t mention how to do a `git push`, only `staticland deploy`. What is the technology behind `staticland deploy`, git, ftp, https?

Looks just like Surge.sh with free SSL.

I recently started using `now`[0] for hosting my static and small scale sites. While it&#x27;s mainly targeted for Node apps &#x2F;JS, it supports deploying static sites out of the box which free and very easy DNS, SSL setup. It&#x27;s not free, but still very affordable compared to the benefits.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zeit.co&#x2F;now" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;zeit.co&#x2F;now</a>

Another alternative in this space is an AWS Lambda-driven static site editor and publisher: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sirceljm&#x2F;LambdaBlogPlatform" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sirceljm&#x2F;LambdaBlogPlatform</a><p>(not affiliated but I know that the author put lot of thought in it)

Seems like a cool project. I&#x27;ve got a site setup[0] like this already, where netlify pulls the files from github and then serves them from its CDN with A+ HTTPS+HSTS. Works flawlessly.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libeclipse.me" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;libeclipse.me</a>

But where are the files hosted ?

Is it just as simple to use if you host it yourself? Static site hosting locally with TLS ought to be as simple as two commands.

Very nice work.

Do I need NPM to use this?

what&#x27;s the monetization strategy?