Hosting Connects your customers to your content
The number of Hosting options keeps growing each week. With so much choice and features it can be hard to compare offerings and services. Hosting requirements are very much driven by the type of website to be deployed and then the types of features you require. The number of visitor that a website might get is also a factor as this can lead to very large bandwidth bills.
In the last few years we have seen a new breed of hosting product be come available that is tailored to deployment from a Git repository and very focused on static content with some having inbuilt CDN support right in the box as a standard feature.
The great thing about this type of Git deployment is that it really eases the update loop of a website. Firstly because all the content is version controlled and then the deployment is automated. Not only that the Git repository serves as a backup for the website content and the hosting and deploy are also defined as code which means that they are repeatable and predictable.
This workflow also allows you the option to generate staging versions of your website based on pull requests to preview changes before publishing to your live website. A Seamless staging environment creation is really useful for testing against using an automated playwright pipeline.
Static Hosting Packages
With a wide range of available packages comes a lots of choices. To outline a few tailored Modern Static hosting services available from Azure Static Web Apps, Cloudflare Pages, DigitalOcean App Platform, Netlify each one of these services offer a core service to deploy and host your website then have a number of features you choose to add as extras some might be at an extra cost. They also have inbuilt CDN support and you can add your custom domain.
The choice is endless
A number of hosting services are available ranging from free to paid options. Mostly the available packages have the same core features with some features varying in the allowance available for them per package level. Some of these packages handle the over use of a feature differently ranging from a stop of service to defined charges (Some of which can get costly quickly). If you do start adding these extras it a great idea to configure a spend limit and sometimes you get choice of what should happen to the service once this level is reached. Some of these providers require you to have active paid user accounts per team member which can lead to a protentional problems arising from this as these provides look at the committers or pull request usernames within the repository then will not allow a deployment or staging if that user does not have a paid account within the defined hosting package.
Providing a helping hand
We are happy and able to provide support and service whether you are already using a hosting provider or looking to get content online. Maybe you need to enhance your publishing loop to speed it up or reduce the cost of updating content. Automating repetitive tasks can be a great way of handing back time to achieve more.
We would be very happy to get your content online or to solve the problems that holding your website back contact us today to explore your project options.