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GitHub Pages vs Spigot

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Overview

GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages
Stacks17.7K
Followers13.0K
Votes1.1K
Spigot
Spigot
Stacks48
Followers30
Votes2

GitHub Pages vs Spigot: What are the differences?

GitHub Pages: Public webpages freely hosted and easily published. Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live; Spigot: The leading community for Minecraft server owners and content creators. It is home to the community behind the biggest Minecraft server software projects and provides a place for everyone involved with Minecraft servers to connect with each other whether they seeking help and support or sharing and showcasing their work. We provide a web forum, chat room and wiki for providing support as well as project hosting for content creators and hope that you too will become involved in this extensive and growing community of more than 300,000 members.

GitHub Pages and Spigot belong to "Static Web Hosting" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by GitHub Pages are:

  • Blogging with Jekyll
  • Custom URLs
  • Automatic Page Generator

On the other hand, Spigot provides the following key features:

  • Optimized growth
  • Decay and chunk ticking
  • Auto stack merging for items and experience orbs

According to the StackShare community, GitHub Pages has a broader approval, being mentioned in 775 company stacks & 4401 developers stacks; compared to Spigot, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on GitHub Pages, Spigot

Howie
Howie

Full Stack Engineer at Yintrust

Aug 13, 2020

DecidedonNetlifyNetlify

We use Netlify to host static websites.

The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:

  • Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
  • With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public

In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.

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Detailed Comparison

GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages
Spigot
Spigot

Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

It is home to the community behind the biggest Minecraft server software projects and provides a place for everyone involved with Minecraft servers to connect with each other whether they seeking help and support or sharing and showcasing their work. We provide a web forum, chat room and wiki for providing support as well as project hosting for content creators and hope that you too will become involved in this extensive and growing community of more than 300,000 members.

Blogging with Jekyll; Custom URLs; Automatic Page Generator
Optimized growth;Decay and chunk ticking;Auto stack merging for items and experience orbs;Chunk garbage collector to prevent chunk leaks;Configurable values for many vanilla/Bukkit messages (e.g. whitelist, no permission);Disabling of random light updates
Statistics
Stacks
17.7K
Stacks
48
Followers
13.0K
Followers
30
Votes
1.1K
Votes
2
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 290
    Free
  • 217
    Right out of github
  • 185
    Quick to set up
  • 108
    Instant
  • 107
    Easy to learn
Cons
  • 4
    Not possible to perform HTTP redirects
  • 3
    Limited Jekyll plugins
  • 3
    Supports only Jekyll
  • 1
    Jekyll is bloated
Pros
  • 2
    Minecraft
Integrations
GitHub
GitHub
SQLite
SQLite
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
MySQL
MySQL
Gmail
Gmail

What are some alternatives to GitHub Pages, Spigot?

DomainRacer

DomainRacer

It is a blazing fast hosting solution that provides Customer Satisfaction driven Web Hosting services since 2016.

Netlify

Netlify

Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

Vercel

Vercel

A cloud platform for serverless deployment. It enables developers to host websites and web services that deploy instantly, scale automatically, and require no supervision, all with minimal configuration.

Surge

Surge

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

Webflow

Webflow

Webflow is a responsive design tool that lets you design, build, and publish websites in an intuitive interface. Clean code included!

Divshot

Divshot

Divshot makes building and hosting front-end web applications simple. Build locally and deploy using a simple command-line interface. Divshot supports multiple environments, pushState routing, atomic deploys, and more.

GitLab Pages

GitLab Pages

Host your static websites on GitLab.com for free, or on your own GitLab Enterprise Edition instance. Use any static website generator: Jekyll, Middleman, Hexo, Hugo, Pelican, and more

Firebase Hosting

Firebase Hosting

It is production-grade web content hosting for developers. With a single command, you can quickly deploy web apps and serve both static and dynamic content to a global CDN (content delivery network). You can also pair it with Cloud Functions or Cloud Run to build and host microservices.

Runkod

Runkod

It provides decentralized hosting platform and management tools for modern javascript applications and static web publishing.

BitBalloon

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.

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