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0 pointsweejewel4y ago0 comments

But now you’re paying for keeping a server online, whereas a GitHub page could’ve hosted this static website for free.

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He did this for fun, his motivation wasn't to find the cheapest way to host his content.

It's also not like you'd have to have a separate server/vserver for every such project, a very affordable vserver will run quite a lot of nginx containers. Plus I guess some people will have a vserver or something like that anyway (I have a small one to get around NAT at the ISP level), in which case it might be net-zero.

867-53094y ago

>get around NAT at the ISP level

genuinely interested in the benefits of this. care to share?

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hsn9154y ago

I honestly don't understand where's the fun in using docker for anything.

Unless one is into masochism.

dolmen4y ago

Especially to host what could be implemented as a single static HTML file.

cyral4y ago

React is compiled to static content so this could be hosted with GitHub pages too

moltar4y ago

I build static sites in Docker too. But then simply extract the built files out and upload them to any static hosting I need.

This allows me to self contain all the build tooling. And allows other developers to setup a dev environment in a few easy steps.

shepherdjerred4y ago

There's no reason that this would have to be hosted on a traditional server.

quickthrower24y ago

Free as in beer, yes

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