Roll Your Own Static Site Host on VPS with Caddy Server

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GitHub Actions

I haven’t actually built this myself, but it would be super cool to do, and I think I’ve got a simple concept down. You could set up a web server that can listen for webhooks. Then use your CI/CD pipeline (maybe GitHub Actions) to ping that webhook whenever a new change arrives on the production branch.

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FileZilla

Then you can use an FTP client like Filezilla that supports SFTP. Just be sure to use the sftp:// protocol in the URL (sftp://50.100.7.293 or sftp://your.domain.com).

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Caddy

We really just scratched the surface on what Caddy can do, but I’d encourage you to learn more by heading over to caddyserver.com. One thing, for example, that we did not do was set compression on our server. That would be a great performance improvement. You can read more of the available options in the docs.

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