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Writer. Head of Product @ Stablecore. Working on simple web hosting https://orbiter.host \ https://polluterofminds.com

Today I’m excited to announce a new project with @polluterofminds  called Orbiter: a dead simple tool for uploading and hosting static sites.

Today I’m excited to announce a new project with @polluterofminds  called Orbiter: a dead simple tool for uploading and hosting static sites. 

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/orbiter

DX Engineer | DevRel at OpenZeppelin | Building orbiter.host & bhvr.dev | opinions are my own

Ultimately, people may not care about the blockchain and IPFS aspects of the technology, and that’s fine. We specifically built it so that you didn’t even see this tech, however let us know if you would fine value in some kind of advance mode to directly access that kind of control. 

Give the app a try and let us know what you think, and give us an upvote on Product Hunt today!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/orbiter

https://orbiter.host

Underneath Orbiter is a stack Justin and I are very familiar with: IPFS and Base. We always admired using IPFS for hosting static websites because content is immutable, making it great for caching. However if you want to update it, that can be an issue. IPNS isn’t as fast as we would like it to be. That’s why every site on Orbiter gets it’s own smart contract (IPCM) on Base to handle the website state. Anytime someone updates their site and uploads new content, the new CID is mapped to the contract. This does two things: 

1. Allows anyone in the world to build a version history of the site
2. Allows the site creator to easily migrate off Orbiter without even having to access the Orbiter web app if they want to

I think I speak for most developers that while hosting through CI/CD pipelines is easy for us, there are times when we prefer simplicity over the complexity that is modern web hosting. When you just want to host a static site, nothing is simpler than dropping a folder of HTML CSS and JS, and that’s exactly what we’ve done with Orbiter. We also believe this model is ideal for the person who isn’t as skilled with modern dev tools and just wants to host a simple blog or portfolio.

Oh hay! 😁 I think you might be looking for bhvr.dev

father of two marvelous girls, meditator and dev. this month working for brnd

i come to your profile a lot to look for different stuff you have shared lol for example now im here looking for hrbv (?) so i will start scrolling now to find the website because i want to start a new project but i just wanted to say hi first

/frontend dev (HTML/CSS)・founder/decentralized data wrangler /blockhead・contributor /walletbeat, ••••・hackathon bounty hunter・music maker・dropout・25

Se siente mejor y no. Puedo amar más y más que antes. Lo que ella ha dicho siempre importa. 

Cambia de cuerpo, altera la mente, pero me arrodillo igual. ¡De ro

Y’all are tapping into [I think] a massive unlock for web builders who need IPFS + BASE [but didn’t know it]

Dude thank you!! 🙏 We're excited about it! :)

Steve, muy awesome; just upvoted on PH; bravo on the launch!

Thank you!! 🙏🏻 That’s kinda the goal; bring back the fun of the web! We have a blog post we’ll share later today with more on that, but it is on our website for those who want to find it :)

Designing and building AI systems

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Thank you!! 🙏🏻 That’s kinda the goal; bring back the fun of the web! We have a blog post we’ll share later today with more on that, but it is on our website for those who want to find it :) https://orbiter.host

Congrats!

Gives me a flashback to good old FileZilla days and FTPing the new app files (without any version control of course)

Exploring what’s next. Previously experimented with continuous, always liquid NFTs, and led growth at Dune Analytics. I like the ocean and summer mornings

dev + founder | @vibesengineering.eth @herocast

Nice!! Yes and no I would say. Fleek I believe would just host the website as a CID which you could then set as the ENS content hash. The only issue with this is you would have to update the content hash every time you update your site, and that can add up in gas costs for eth mainnet. 

Personally I have my ens content has set as an html file that redirects the user to my actual website. So the flow goes 

ENS content hash (CID) -> index.html through a public gateway like limo -> my website

You could in theory do the same thing except your final “my website” could be a site hosted on orbiter. 

Overall this issue is actually why I made IPCM, where a smart contract address is the main point of contact instead of a CID:

This would pair quite well with ERC-6860 (onchain HTTP spec, which can redirect to IPFS)

Nice!! Yes and no I would say. Fleek I believe would just host the website as a CID which you could then set as the ENS content hash. The only issue with this is you would have to update the content hash every time you update your site, and that can add up in gas costs for eth mainnet. 

Personally I have my ens content has set as an html file that redirects the user to my actual website. So the flow goes 

ENS content hash (CID) -> index.html through a public gateway like limo -> my website

You could in theory do the same thing except your final “my website” could be a site hosted on orbiter. 

Overall this issue is actually why I made IPCM, where a smart contract address is the main point of contact instead of a CID: https://ipcm.dev

@polluterofminds 

This looks cool. I’m actually building  a new site right now. Would it accommodate a .eth domain like Fleek seemingly does?

Reminds me of https://surge.sh inthe best of ways 

Is there a cli?

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Hmmm…I have a static site on GitHub pages rn, will try moving to this and see what happens.

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