Stacks11.8K

Followers7.9K

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Votes1.1K

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Stacks2K

Followers250

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Votes83

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GitHub Pages vs Squarespace: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Squarespace? Everything You Need To Create An Exceptional Website. Whether you need simple pages, sophisticated galleries, a professional blog, or want to sell online, it all comes standard with your Squarespace website. Squarespace starts you with beautiful designs right out of the box — each handcrafted by our award-winning design team to make your content stand out.

GitHub Pages and Squarespace are primarily classified as "Static Web Hosting" and "Website Builder" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by GitHub Pages are:

Blogging with Jekyll
Custom URLs
Automatic Page Generator

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

SELL ANYTHING- Easily add a store to any Squarespace website and start selling physical and digital goods immediately.
PAINLESS STORE MANAGEMENT- Manage your inventory, process customer orders, print packing slips, and customize emails all in one intuitive interface.
BUILD BETTER PAGES WITH LAYOUTENGINE- LayoutEngine technology gives you the freedom to create visually rich pages with any configuration of text, images, products, and content blocks. Simply drag and drop your content exactly where you want and we'll automatically align them in a perfect grid.

"Free" is the primary reason why developers consider GitHub Pages over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Squarespace.

According to the StackShare community, GitHub Pages has a broader approval, being mentioned in 576 company stacks & 682 developers stacks; compared to Squarespace, which is listed in 419 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.

Decisions about GitHub Pages and Squarespace

Howie Zhao

Full Stack Engineer at yintrust · Aug 13, 2020 | 7 upvotes · 38.1K views

Chose

to add

Netlify

and to remove

GitHub Pages

Yintrust

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.

Pros of GitHub Pages

Pros of Squarespace

287
Free
216
Right out of github
184
Quick to set up
108
Instant
107
Easy to learn
58
Great way of setting up your project's website
47
Widely used
41
Quick and easy
37
Great documentation
4
Super easy
3
Easy setup
2
Instant and fast Jekyll builds
2
Great customer support
2
Great integration

35
Easy setup
30
Clean designs
8
Beautiful responsive themes
6
Easy ongoing maintenance
3
Live chat & 24/7 support team
1
No coding necessary

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Cons of GitHub Pages

Cons of Squarespace

4
Not possible to perform HTTP redirects
3
Supports only Jekyll
3
Limited Jekyll plugins
1
Jekyll is bloated

1
Hard to use custom code

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What is GitHub Pages?

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

What is Squarespace?

Whether you need simple pages, sophisticated galleries, a professional blog, or want to sell online, it all comes standard with your Squarespace website. Squarespace starts you with beautiful designs right out of the box — each handcrafted by our award-winning design team to make your content stand out.

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What companies use Squarespace?

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What are some alternatives to GitHub Pages and Squarespace?

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.

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

Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service provides a fully redundant data storage infrastructure for storing and retrieving any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web

Medium

Medium is a different kind of place on the internet. A place where the measure of success isn’t views, but viewpoints. Where the quality of the idea matters, not the author’s qualifications. A place where conversation pushes ideas forward.

WordPress

The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 60 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home” — we’d love you to join the family.

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How much does GitHub Pages cost?

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