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Static websites are easy to host and deploy

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+title: Static websites are easy to host and deploy
+date: 2025-03-13
+permalink: daily/2025/03/13/deploy
+tags:
+  - software-development
+  - static-websites
+  - static-site-generators
+  - sculpin
+cta: ~
+snippet: |
+  Static websites are easy to host and deploy changes.
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+Another reason I like static websites is that they're easy and quick to deploy.
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+Whether you use write each HTML file by hand or [use a static site generator][0], a simple Web server like Caddy, Nginx or Apache can load and serve your website for everyone to see.
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+My Sculpin website generates an output_prod directory after I run `sculpin generate` with my deployable files.
+
+I manage my own server with NixOS that hosts a number of static websites, such as examples from talks and blog posts.
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+To upload my files onto the server, I just use rsync - a small command line tool to synchronise files between computers.
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+It's a single command to upload the contents of my output_prod directory to the directory on my server.
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+No complex CI pipelines or database migrations.
+
+It's fast, simple and minimal.
+
+If you prefer to use a service like Netlify or Vercel, they work great for static websites too.
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