How would you host a static site in 2020?

Question

Yesterday I submitted a post I'd written about moving from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify (see HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872910). In the comments, many people suggested alternatives they thought would've been better for my situation that I'd either never heard of or didn't realize were good options for my use case - Google's Cloud Run and App Engine, Firebase, AWS Lambda + S3 + Cloudfront CDN to name a few.So I'm curious - if you were going to host your static site in 2020, how would you do it?

viraptor · Accepted Answer

If it's actually just static, S3 + cloudfront unless there's any reason to do anything more. It's a bit of "nobody's been fired for ..." and a bit of "cheap enough to not think about".

marcosnils · Answer

I work for ZEIT (https://zeit.co/home) the creators of next js and the best place to host your static content. It'd be awesome if you give our platform a try and help you out to host your content the best way possible. You shouldn't have to run containers or anything complex nowadays just to host a single static website.

riaandewit · Answer

S3, cloudfront, route53 for the hosting. Your text editor of choice for generating. Git for version control :)

DamonHD · Answer

Rather depends how big and busy it is?earth.org.uk is script/make generated, pregenerates Gzipped and other low-bandwidth versions of objects, and runs on plain old Apache on a Raspberry Pi. Response time is typically very good.