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Originally Posted by Folio
A couple of off-topic questions: Is the copy served from a storage bucket, and how do you like Google cloud for hosting static sites?
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Yup, from a standard storage bucket, and it serves static sites just as well as anything else out there (which, as
redge points out, shouldn't make much of a difference anyway), but there are a couple of caveats to using Google cloud storage buckets for this...
For one, you don't get direct SFTP access. You have to upload/change files either using the Google Cloud Console on the web, or using Google's command-line cloud shell tools.
The second limitation is that there's no way to realistically get proper SSL support. There is an SSL path to the cloud storage buckets, but it uses a certificate that's assigned to the "real" Google cloud name (*.storage.googleapis.com), which of course won't match and throw up an error if you try to access your site directly over SSL. By contrast, FastMail recently added the ability to install LetsEncrypt SSL certificates on its static web hosting by basically clicking a single checkbox.