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Ask HN: Fastest static site host?

My Jekyll website is currently powered by a shared web hosting plan from HostGator with unlimited disk space & bandwidth (CloudFlare enabled).

I've heard about Heroku which hosts websites for free and GitHub Pages. I won't exceed 2TB bandwidth/month nor do I need more than 300 MB space so I comply with both GitHub Pages & Heroku's limitations.

Which of the following will serve the website fastest to users (and with the max uptime)?

  Shared web hosting (I deploy via rsync)
  GitHub Pages
  Heroku with 1x dyno
  Amazon CloudFront
I think shared web hosting is slower than the other options. So, what should I use? Is there any other option which is better than all these?

My website gets about 15k pageviews/daily.

7 points zuck9 12 years ago 18 comments

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