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

[Davor Ocelic]

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 07:25:27 -0400
Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:

> 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.

By the way, I think we serve ~username websites from Deleuze, and there
we have made it so that only static content can be served.

So, I believe this is already possible and working in our setup, as
long as you don't mind putting the files under
hcoop.net/~username/...

Cya,
-doc