How to build and host a static website?

3 rhtoras 2 9/3/2025, 1:08:36 PM
Hey guys fairly new in the community but already 5-6 years on the nosystemD linux and unix side of things. I am wondering if there is an easy path to build and how to deploy a static website. I already have a vps server but it's a mess. All in all i want the steps to build a static website and some reccomendations. Right now i use pelican but it is meh and i don't want to use github/gitlab pages. I jhust want to use a javascript widget to the static site which plays web radio.

Comments (2)

Brajeshwar · 2d ago
About a year or so back, I really wanted to go to the bones and tried Make + Pandoc for my website. I’m sure, one day, I will do something to that or similar. However, for now, as you mentioned—I wanted to host on Github Pages—I stayed with Jekyll. Most of the times, I’m just writing in a Markdown Editor such as iA Writer or Obsidian without even running Jekyll locally (too slow for my website).

https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...

fuzzfactor · 1d ago
I do web radio with a media server itself that's "static", but with no actual "website" needed at all. Regardless of whether any website which plays the stream for listeners would be static or not, that's not part of my equation.

No website necessary. Nor a browser to access the stream whatsoever. It's a radio station, at the same place on your dial every time. It'll play in a mere media player that can access a web stream. And there's no reason to have a dial or do any channel changing if there's only one channel.

Once the media streaming app is doing its thing and music is emanating from it in digital form, then you can choose to present the stream to others if you want from a "static" website or otherwise, you may not want them to link directly to your raw stream using their own player anyway.

But I've got to be able to serve the same stream in all kinds of ways before deciding on the preferred webpage code for the particular situation.