Website hosting on github pages and a demo site?

Created by: andygrunwald

Product site

A product like LANSuite should have a small website to show what it is, what benefits it offers, what is the target group, etc. Mostly a static HTML page might be enough. Github offers for this purpose a service called GitHub Pages.

This service is kind of perfect for this use case, because

• it is free
• the html is stored next to the code
• everyone of the team is able to contribute / modify it

GitHub pages offers templates for this. Those might be a good start already.

Demo site

At http://lansuite.orgapage.de/ @JochenJung is running a demo site. Those demo sites are quite good for a show case. This might be a good option as well.

Sadly i don't know a service for free were we can host a demo site in a transparent way.

A cool example is done by https://demo.cachethq.io/. This demo site is reinstalled every 30 minutes and with this, it is resetted. Everyone can play around with an Admin account and you don't have to worry that someone compromises it, because it will be resetted in 30 min.

This requires an automated setup already with dummy data.

Another cool wish would be if we reduce the Bus Factor and host this in a transparent way that other team members can also act on this once there is an issue