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BitBalloon vs Surge: What are the differences?
What is BitBalloon? The ultimate static site hosting platform. BitBalloon deploys static sites from development to production in one step. Sites are automatically compressed, cached and pushed to a CDN. Any forms on the site will automatically work BitBalloon is 100% programmable, everything from deployment to form handling can be controlled through the API.
White label reseller options are available for using BitBalloon as a site publishing engine inside 3rd party authoring tools..
What is Surge? Static web publishing for Front-End Developers. Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
BitBalloon and Surge can be categorized as "Static Web Hosting" tools.
Pros of BitBalloon
- Forms handling2
- Free1
- Easy to set up1
- Gulp/grunt integration1
Pros of Surge
- Free plan18
- Simple13
- Free custom domain support11
- Deployment via command line10
- Smart about urls3
- Fast2
- Automatic urls based on filenames1
- 404 status page based on 404.html1
- Free ssl1
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Cons of BitBalloon
Cons of Surge
- No free redirects1