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Panel



Charles Max Wood


Aimee Knight


Chris Ferdinandi


AJ O’Neal


Joe Eames



Episode Summary

Today the panel discusses what is necessary to get a website up and how complicated or simple it needs to be. They mention different tools they like for static sites and ways to manage their builds and websites. They talk about why some people choose to host their websites and at what point the heavier tools become a concern. They discuss whan it is necessary to use those heavy tools. 

They caution listeners to beware of premature optimization, because sometimes businesses will take advantage of newer developers and make them think they need all these shiny bells and whistles, when there is a cheaper way to do it. It is important to keep the tools you work with simple and to learn them so that if you encounter a problem, you have some context and scope. The option of serverless website hosting is also discussed, as well as important things to know about servers.

The panel discusses what drives up the price of a website and if it is worth it to switch to a cheaper alternative. They discuss the pros and cons of learning the platform yourself versus hiring a developer. The importance of recording the things that you do on your website is mentioned. Several of the panelists choose to do this by blogging so that if you search for a problem you can find ones you’ve solved in the past.

Links



Heroku


Github Pages


Netlify


Eleventy


DigitalOcean


Lightsale


Ubuntu


Git clone


Node static server


Systemd script


NGinx


Cloud66


Thinkster


Gatsby


Docker


Gentoo


How to schedule posts with a static website


How to set up automatic deployment with Git with a vps


Automating the deployment of your static site with Github and Hugo



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Chris Ferdinandi:



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AJ O’Neal:



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Joe Eames:



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