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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.

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    Forms handling
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    Free
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    Easy to set up
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    Gulp/grunt integration
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    Free plan
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    Simple
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    Free custom domain support
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    Deployment via command line
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    Smart about urls
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    Fast
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    Automatic urls based on filenames
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    404 status page based on 404.html
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    Free ssl

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      No free redirects

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    What is BitBalloon?

    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?

    Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.

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