Summary

While setting up 11ty via FTP or drag-and-drop is possible, it’s often not ideal. For long-term use, setting up an automated workflow via GitHub and a host with a build pipeline will save large amounts of time and frustration. In this chapter, we covered questions to ask of your hosting providers for ideal static site processes, setting up 11ty via drag-and-drop, Netlify deployments, and Cloudflare Pages deployments. Netlify and Cloudflare are two trusted static site hosts, but there are others available as well, such as Vercel, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Each has its own benefits and drawbacks. Pick the service that best matches your needs and the needs of 11ty.

This chapter marks the end of the first project of the book. We set up a basic website in Chapter 1, added data to it in Chapter 2, and have now hosted it in Chapter 3. In the next chapter, we’ll create a new project to build a blog with 11ty. This will build on...