What’s new?

A few months back I decided to move over to static sites, why? Well, its blazingly fast, its cheap and its cool in a modern sense but just generally all around cool.

I wrote a blog about it while in preview, please check it out: https://www.fisontech.net/p/day-44-azure-static-sites/

However, recently it came out of preview and went generally available.

I as a result lost my site when it went GA and had to set things up again, however good news is its now even easier.

See the following for more info: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/azure-static-web-apps-is-now-generally-available/

Top items for being excited about this now being available for all.

• Native support for things like Hugo, i.e. site builders.
• Support for custom domains, incl. those hosted outside Azure.
• CI/CD pipelines better optimized, can be linked to GitHub easily.
• Now offers free + premium plans, you only pay for storage (images etc).
• A more widely advertised VSC tooling, update your site without leaving the console.
• Better documentation on setting a site up from scratch, handy for newcomers.

A few more details regarding the above changes.

As mentioned, it’s completely free, you have multiple plans available, see below:

Custom domains are now also a lot easier to configure, with a simple CNAME and www. in your DNS registration settings using the URL created by Azure:

It’s worth noting in preview this was a lot harder to get done and loop holes had to be used, this is no longer the case thankfully.

I highly recommend checking this out.

Now more than ever considering that a lot of people still run WP vs this free product.

Thanks