SurgeWhat is Surge?
Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
Surge is a tool in the Cloud Hosting category of a tech stack.
Surge Pros & Cons
Pros of Surge
- ✓Free plan
- ✓Simple
- ✓Free custom domain support
- ✓Deployment via command line
- ✓Smart about urls
- ✓Fast
- ✓404 status page based on 404.html
- ✓Automatic urls based on filenames
- ✓Free ssl
Cons of Surge
- ✗No free redirects
Surge Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Surge?
GitHub Pages
Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
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
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.
