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Static HTML stack

We'd quite like the ability to specify a HTML-only stack with PHP disabled and no database. While this might seem an odd request, we sometimes have the need for temporary holding sites, additional sub-sites, etc. It's potentially also of use with headless CMS sites. Having related sites on the same server / within the same interface is useful.

While I realise we can use the PHP install for this, I'd prefer something that has code execution properly disabled from the start.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. A simple static webhosting managed by Cloudways.

  • Russell commented  ·   ·  Report

    There is a nifty little trick with static apps that can speed WordPress websites up a little. It involves
    a special type of static app that uses a symlink to point a website subfolder to this static app. When I was hosting with Webfaction, they would allow me to do this.

    The idea is that you can make the uploads folder of WordPress (/wp-content/uploads) a symlink to a static app. The WordPress uploads folder only has static resources like images and PDF documents, making it a perfect use-case for a static app. I know I would appreciate the performance gains from the reduced overhead in serving these static resources. Also, I don't know if this applies, but if the default configuration gzips images, that would harmful for performance as well -- jpegs and pngs are already compressed, so gzipping them is only wasting computing power and time.

    If it's useful, you can find the documentation Webfaction created for speeding up requests to the uploads folder by using this technique on their platform at https://docs.webfaction.com/software/wordpress/advanced.html

    TL;DR
    A symlink that places a website's images folder in a static app would increase performance.

    Edit: Actually since Cloudways already uses Nginx to deliver static assets, there might not be any overhead to delivering static HTML files inside of a PHP app.

  • Linda commented  ·   ·  Report

    I also think it would be phenomenal if we could host static websites :)

  • Babul Mukherjee commented  ·   ·  Report

    YES please! Simple HTML still has value, without the overhead of PHP and MYSQL.

  • Dylan commented  ·   ·  Report

    Im all for this, no need for all the bluster when you want to achieve something simple.

  • Andrew commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would agree with this. I, for instance, just need to host some static image files. I don't need a LAMP stack for that and would like just a barebones HTML server. Came here to request the same thing.

  • Cesar Sacconi Falcao commented  ·   ·  Report

    There's many SSG (static sites generators) like Jekyll that can use Cloudways to easily host several plain HTML sites with SSL on Cloudways

  • Brendon commented  ·   ·  Report

    With added nodejs installedwould be excellent and being able to git deploy from a subfolder

  • Erik Hansen commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes, I'd love this too. Just a simple nginx server with nothing else running.

  • Mark Hesketh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Additionally this would mean a MySQL is not required, which I think is created by default for all the current stacks?

  • Mark Hesketh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Was coming here to suggest this feature too. Would be a great addition.

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