[HCoop-Discuss] future infrastructure discussion: static web hosting

[Adam Chlipala]

David Crawshaw wrote:
> Hey guys, I have a question I would like to put to other hcoop
> members: how much interest is there in static web hosting?
>
> I know that almost everyone here does something dynamic on mire. I do
> too. But most of my needs are covered by .html (and other) files in a
> directory, being available over http. The issues we have had recently
> would not bother me at all if my static pages had stayed up. How true
> is this for other hcoop'ers?
>   

I'm not at all sure that those issues wouldn't have remained, even if 
mire just hosted static web sites. It may very well be a good idea to 
use separate servers, but I don't think we've had any downtime in years 
that can be attributed to the presence of dynamic web sites.