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Tangential question - what are other examples of solutions that can be vaguely summarized as "platform for hosting and managing (and routing) discrete static websites" are out there?

I'm looking for streamlined alternatives to the following architecture (which works okay, but has too many separate parts):

  - Static websites compiled with different assets from the same root create discrete independent "public" folders
  - Folders are uploaded to a single bucket in Amazon S3 
  - Route53 and a separate reverse-proxy nginx server handle traffic to X.domain.com where X is the name of a folder in S3

This service takes a cURL request and outputs an https URL: https://www.gostaticapp.com/

You can use it via cURL or github actions (https://github.com/marketplace/actions/gostatic-deploy), and there's a node-based CLI coming soon

e.g. curl https://www.gostaticapp.com/api/deploy/artifact \ -X POST \ -H "Accept: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer your-api-token" \ -F "file=@file.zip"

If you're willing to go off Amazon altogether and lose a lot of control (which can be good or bad), the serverless hosts like Vercel can easily do that. Each folder is just its own repo, and each repo is its own route, and they take care of all the hosting and managing and CDNs and such. You just git push and that particular website will build and publish in a few seconds. The prices range from free to cheap for small websites.

I use virtualmim on a cheap vps + hugo on my laptop.

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