Setting up your own static webhost with MarkdownSite (opens in new tab)

Hi HN!

Last week I showed you the open source hosting platform I am working on, and got a lot of great comments and feedback.

There was some confusing over exactly what MarkdownSite is, and I made a lot of updates to the site and added a documentation system and blog to more effectively communicate this.

There was also a few issues with things not working out quite as intended with path resolution. A lot of folks who tried to build websites got 404 errors. This has been better addressed now, as well as a bunch of other fixes over the last week.

This blog post intends to make it easy for someone to build their own hosting platform with MarkdownSite. I hope someone finds it useful :)

So.. you have invested enormous amounts into a fully automated three+ server solution with a lot of moving parts, to essentially replace putting a HTML file onto a linode bucket and creating an A record to it?

Don’t get me wrong, you seem to have done a fantastic and heavy job here but I can‘t see a lot of people using this to be quite honest.