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Not Too Bad for an Hour's Time

John Papa on August 05, 2019

Peacock has grown quite a bit in the past few months. So much, in fact, that the docs in the README.md are getting long and difficult to navigate. ...
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Raymond Camden •

I'd also suggest Netlify. Azure Strorage has no free tier which is a bit of a turn off for me. (I only know of this because it impacts Azure Functions. It's a super minor cost, but still bugs me a bit. ;)

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John Papa Microsoft Azure •

How much did your pricing look like with azure storage? It appears to be a few pennies for what I am looking at. (which i get is not free, but i am curious what you found)

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Raymond Camden •

I want to say roughly 60 cents a month. Which to be fair is incredibly cheap, but when it comes to building quick demo sites, I don't want to have to start thinking about that stacking up over time. I'm really surprised Microsoft doesn't just have a free tier for super small, low usage sites like your docs, demos, etc. The fact that I can deploy a site for a conference presentation or blog post, whatever, to Netlify and just not worry about it makes me much more inclined to use it to host stuff.

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John Papa Microsoft Azure •

Thanks for the feedback. It would be nice to have a free option here - and yes, there are credits with the free azure trial, but seems like you would want (and i can see it too) an option for a free hosted site.

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Yashu Mittal •

but seems like you would want (and i can see it too) an option for a free hosted site.

Especially, static sites. 😅

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Idris Rampurawala •

John, as an alternative you can also use some popular documentation site generator such as docsify.js, docsie. They are purely markdown based and can be hosted via GitHub pages. I have been using docsify.js via GitHub pages since months now.

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John Papa Microsoft Azure •

Thanks. I tried gatsby before and its good. VuePreas is creates for a similar purpose - but using Vue.

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Ruslan Gonzalez •

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

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Victor Darkes •

GitHub pages is good for free hosting.

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Victor Darkes •

I just switched from GitHub pages to Netlify and I'm really liking it!

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Alex Patterson •

Have you checked out forestry.io/ ?

I love keeping everything in Markdown and images in Cloudinary!
I just wrote a bit about why
ajonp.com/blog/cloudinary-in-jamst...