I have been fooling with github,com and netlify.com and have been able to turn some of my hosted sites into static pages. It seemed very difficult, but it turned out to be possible. I think this site -kpgraham.com- might be the next site to work on.
The advantage is that I can write a web page, in this case a blog entry, and then “commit” it to github and magically it appears on the internet.
Github gives you 2GB of space and believe it or not, that is not enough to put all my websites out as static sites. CThreePO.com is about 1GB and HarpAmps.com is about 3GB. Some people create multiple user ids on github, but I want a better alternative.
I have a local webserver called WAMP running on this machine (the desktop in my “office”) and I can run everything that I need here. What I am having trouble with is connecting my local machine to the outside world. My router will not allow me to connect to NO-IP.com and I can’t afford a static IP address. (If this confuses you, don’t worry. It means that my network address keeps changing every time there is a power outage or my router resets, and I have no way of announcing to the real world that my web server is here.)
I am going to spend some money on a fancy router sooner or later and get this working.