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Building and hosting a website in under three minutes

The article demonstrates how to build and host a simple website in under three minutes using a static site generator and a cloud hosting platform. It provides a quick, step-by-step workflow for developers seeking fast deployment.

Background

Matt Sayar is a software developer who periodically writes about modern web development workflows. This post demonstrates the speed of deploying a static website using cloud platforms and automated pipelines — a sharp contrast to the older, slower process of renting servers and manually uploading files via FTP. - The "modern stack" he uses: a static site generator (Eleventy or 11ty) that builds HTML pages from templates, plus a cloud hosting service (Cloudflare Pages) that automatically deploys the built site from a GitHub repository. - Key background: In the early 2010s, deploying a website meant provisioning a server, configuring Apache/Nginx, and uploading files via FTP or rsync — a process that could take hours for a single change. "Serverless" and "static site" approaches eliminated all that. - This matters because it reflects a broader shift: infrastructure that used to be a full-time job (DevOps) is now abstracted away into free, low-code services, dramatically lowering the barrier to publishing on the web.

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