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GitHub Pages vs Surge: What are the differences?
GitHub Pages: Public webpages freely hosted and easily published. Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live; Surge: Static web publishing for Front-End Developers. Surge makes it easy for developers to deploy projects to a production-quality CDN through Grunt, Gulp, npm.
GitHub Pages and Surge can be primarily classified as "Static Web Hosting" tools.
"Free" is the top reason why over 283 developers like GitHub Pages, while over 8 developers mention "Free plan" as the leading cause for choosing Surge.
According to the StackShare community, GitHub Pages has a broader approval, being mentioned in 576 company stacks & 682 developers stacks; compared to Surge, which is listed in 9 company stacks and 13 developer stacks.
We use Netlify to host static websites.
The reasons for choosing Netlify over GitHub Pages are as follows:
- Netfily can bind multiple domain names, while GitHub Pages can only bind one domain name
- With Netfily, the original repository can be private, while GitHub Pages free tier requires the original repository to be public
In addition, in order to use CDN, we use Netlify DNS.
Pros of GitHub Pages
- Free290
- Right out of github217
- Quick to set up185
- Instant108
- Easy to learn107
- Great way of setting up your project's website58
- Widely used47
- Quick and easy41
- Great documentation37
- Super easy4
- Easy setup3
- Instant and fast Jekyll builds2
- Great customer support2
- Great integration2
Pros of Surge
- Free plan18
- Simple13
- Free custom domain support11
- Deployment via command line10
- Smart about urls3
- Fast2
- Automatic urls based on filenames1
- 404 status page based on 404.html1
- Free ssl1
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Cons of GitHub Pages
- Not possible to perform HTTP redirects4
- Supports only Jekyll3
- Limited Jekyll plugins3
- Jekyll is bloated1
Cons of Surge
- No free redirects1