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Roast.io - Host your website in 4 seconds with unfurl + SEO goodies

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Hello!

is a static web host that "just works" for plain ol' HTML (Jekyll, Hugo, etc.) and React/Angular/Vue.

* secure HTTPS

* fast AWS CDN

* screenshot link unfurls

* SEO reports

* server-side rendering

npm install -g roast

roast deploy

Email just to chat ...or for 3-months free! ($27 off)

❤️Jonathan Otto

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What does screenshot link unfurls mean?
Maker
When you paste a link to a website in FB/Twitter/Slack/iMessage etc. it shows a preview (also known as unfurl) only if you have open graph tags. If you don't have them, Roast.io will detect this, take a screenshot of the page, and inject that screenshot for the open graph tags.
oh I didn't know that had a name...i just thought it was called og image preview! Today I Learned..😃
btw I am working on a similar thing for mashing data and DOM rendering and outputting images... Potentially pushing this "unfurling" phenomena further @
How does this compare to S3 hosting?
Maker
1. S3 has latency issues when not used with AWS CloudFront 2. so you configure CloudFront, but now you have slow cache invalidation (no cache invalidation necessary with roast.io) 3. S3/CloudFront do not have atomic deploys so you can't just "update your files" without risking someone seeing broken content 4. roast.io has 3 additional cool features: screenshot unfurls, SEO reports, and server-side rendering (pre-rendering)
I've used Roast and it's legit -- solved our exact SEO/open-graph image sharing problem and set-up was super, super simple.
Maker
Thank you Brian!
We are using Roast for three sites build on Vue and WP rest API - probably more to come. It's blazing fast and solves all our headaches with manual SSR and CDN setups 🙌
Maker
Thank you Morten! ❤️☕
Awesome sauce
Maker
Thanks Dan! ☕☕
Good stuff. Solves a bunch of headaches.
Maker
Thank you Damon
How does this compare to Firebase free tier?
Maker
roast.io's free tier has the same bandwidth limitations as Firebase's free tier: 10GB. However, we do put a small ribbon at the top right (Firebase does not) - see for an example of what the ribbon looks like
This can also be easily done with WeDeploy ()!
WeDeploy has been discontinued on April 22, 2019

need to be checked for useful options

Pros:

fast to apply

Cons:

not for now

I use this product everyday and it's amazing! congrat's