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Today I’m excited to announce a new project with @polluterofminds called Orbiter: a dead simple tool for uploading and hosting static sites. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/orbiter
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I think I speak for most developers that while hosting through CI/CD pipelines is easy for us, there are times when we prefer simplicity over the complexity that is modern web hosting. When you just want to host a static site, nothing is simpler than dropping a folder of HTML CSS and JS, and that’s exactly what we’ve done with Orbiter. We also believe this model is ideal for the person who isn’t as skilled with modern dev tools and just wants to host a simple blog or portfolio.
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Underneath Orbiter is a stack Justin and I are very familiar with: IPFS and Base. We always admired using IPFS for hosting static websites because content is immutable, making it great for caching. However if you want to update it, that can be an issue. IPNS isn’t as fast as we would like it to be. That’s why every site on Orbiter gets it’s own smart contract (IPCM) on Base to handle the website state. Anytime someone updates their site and uploads new content, the new CID is mapped to the contract. This does two things: 1. Allows anyone in the world to build a version history of the site 2. Allows the site creator to easily migrate off Orbiter without even having to access the Orbiter web app if they want to
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Ultimately, people may not care about the blockchain and IPFS aspects of the technology, and that’s fine. We specifically built it so that you didn’t even see this tech, however let us know if you would fine value in some kind of advance mode to directly access that kind of control. Give the app a try and let us know what you think, and give us an upvote on Product Hunt today! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/orbiter https://orbiter.host
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