Move website and demo site to a VPS

[alexweissman]

Currently, we host our website on Github pages, and our demo site on an embarrassing, legacy shared hosting server.

Github pages is nice because it offloads the bandwidth to Github, but it comes at a price - we can't have any real interactive content. The best that Pages can do is some basic templating with Jekyll - if we want user accounts or a forum, we'd need to self-host. This would also be a nice way to more tightly integrate the demo site into the website.

We've gotten some donations over the past year, so we have enough of a runway to pay for a basic droplet with Digital Ocean for some time. If donations scale with site traffic, then additional droplets could be added as needed ;-)

[spurgeonbj]

Hi Alex,

Greetings!

Thanks for the awesome product!

Just a suggestion, you can save an year's cost trying an EC2 instance on
AWS..

Thanks!
Warm regards
Spurgeon

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Alex Weissman notifications@github.com
wrote:

Currently, we host our website on Github pages https://pages.github.com/,
and our demo site on an embarrassing, legacy shared hosting server.

Github pages is nice because it offloads the bandwidth to Github, but it
comes at a price - we can't have any real interactive content. The best
that Pages can do is some basic templating with Jekyll
https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-as-a-static-site-generator-with-github-pages/

• if we want user accounts or a forum, we'd need to self-host. This would
  also be a nice way to more tightly integrate the demo site into the website.

We've gotten some donations https://pledgie.com/campaigns/29583 over
the past year, so we have enough of a runway to pay for a basic droplet
with Digital Ocean https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/ for some time.
If donations scale with site traffic, then additional droplets could be
added as needed ;-)

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[alexweissman]

This is partially done! https://demo.userfrosting.com

[alexweissman]

Repo for new website: https://github.com/userfrosting/userfrosting-web