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GitLab Pages vs Surge: What are the differences?

What is GitLab Pages? Create websites for your GitLab projects, groups, or user account. 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.

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.

GitLab Pages and Surge can be categorized as "Static Web Hosting" tools.

According to the StackShare community, GitLab Pages has a broader approval, being mentioned in 15 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Surge, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.

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Pros of GitLab Pages
Pros of Surge
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    Free
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    Integrated build and release pipeline
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    Allows any custom build scripts and plugins
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    Free plan
  • 13
    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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Cons of GitLab Pages
Cons of Surge
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    Require Jekyll approach
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    Slow builds
  • 1
    No free redirects

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What is 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

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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What companies use GitLab Pages?
What companies use Surge?
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What tools integrate with GitLab Pages?
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    What are some alternatives to GitLab Pages and Surge?
    GitHub Pages
    Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
    GitHub
    GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
    GitLab
    GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.
    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.
    Confluence
    Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.
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