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[@charlesrayner3764]

This came in exactly when I needed it. I am building a site for a client and was having questions about deployment. Kevin, you are the man! 👍🏼

[@Frencinap]

Hi Kevin, I saw this video months ago and helped me hosting little projetcs and showing them on job interviews. A month ago I started working at an international Company in South America as a Software Developer. Thank you so much for this little piece of advice here.

[@wickedSchmart]

Such a well spoken tutorial, glad to see someone so passionate. Inspired me to get back onto some projects I had planned!

[@dave6012]

I’d love a whole video that’s just you ranting and reminiscing about the olden days of web development back when everything was clunky and awkward. Then you could show the modern day solutions and how they make it so much easier. You could tell us all how you used to walk uphill through the snow to center a div.

[@ThePouetman]

Please do talk about geocities ! I'm really curious about this period in internet history, especially coming from you :)

[@thiagosannafreiresilva4366]

Holy crap, geocities! Now that was a memory neuron that hadn't fired for a long while!

[@KevinPowell]

I'm still waiting for blinking star gifs and website visitor counters to make a comeback

[@richtraube2241]

Yeppers!

[@sephiroth668]

@@KevinPowell How about sites that ask visitors to sign their guestbooks?

[@PeterSedesse]

haha, the good old days. I remember back in the mid 90s when it would take like a week before your domain name propagated. It was impossible to explain to customers what was happening. Originally I would share the IP address with them so they could check the website while we were waiting for the domain name to propagate. But then I had a client who used print advertising and used the IP address MONTHS after the domain name had actually propagated.. so I stopped giving out the IP addresses.

[@kusurugizeme]

Off topic, but your sound system is so good!

[@KevinPowell]

Thanks! I hate audio, so happy to hear I'm doing okay with it, lol

[@AbdicateDotNet]

"Good morning, Hal" is upon us! 😁 Great video! Thanks! 👍👍👍

[@welling1]

I'm using this method as well. It made me feel better about spending more money on a better domain name.

[@mhhamzaedits]

Thanks a lot 🙏 Love from India 🇮🇳

[@ghousemg]

I Got to know your channel from your 1st netlify video its been months now and i am addicted to this channel

[@KevinPowell]

Glad that you're enjoying my content!

[@20_SinManya]

Thanks a lot for this quick tutorial. It was exactly what I needed.

[@Meinungsmacher]

thank you for showing this! thats exactly what i'm looking for^^

[@n3cro2012]

Came for the CSS stayed for the static site servings.

[@lagercrew]

perfect timing for me, thank you kevin!

[@nro337]

Straight and to the point. Thanks!

[@earthcitizen57]

Kevin thanks for the tutorial. One question? How many static websites (different domains) could I deploy with the starter package of Netlify.?

[@arikarans1302]

Great content ! 👍

[@richtraube2241]

Geocities.... You took me way back...

[@javiers2133]

Such an informative video thank you so much

[@dmitruz1900]

When I deploy. It does not show me live page. Only github link to my files. src, components and so on

[@mahdi7d1rostami]

What benefits do hosting my site on Netlify will have compared to simple Github pages? For example, If I just want to have a simple HTML and CSS site up and running?

[@armaanchoudhary]

Even though I don't retain and use most of the stuff... I just watch these for fun (:

[@jplsolutions-ca]

geocities... we feel old now. thanks...

[@mhelbaterina9541]

tysm I've been trying to find a hosting site for free, thankyou

[@ajayantu]

Love your videos....thanks for the video

[@KevinPowell]

Glad you like them!

[@hreniucpaula4918]

Does it work out of the box in case of a React project? Are there any additional steps required?

[@oatie4262]

Do we consider a web app that calls a database using an API, a static site?

[@hunchothafinesseboi7652]

is it normal for site deploy to take long, coz mine s taking too long. thanks any help will be appreciated

[@SameeraSenarathna]

Greate Content. Thank You. 👍

[@WolfgangKeim1]

Thank you for the information.

[@mykalimba]

I'm assuming you can turn the CI/CD off? If I have v1.0 of a site deployed and I'm working on v1.1, I don't commit everything for v1.1 in one git push, and I don't want my work-in-progress going live until I say so.

[@KevinPowell]

You can turn automatic deploys off, but it's only going to public the branch you tell it to publish.

[@richtraube2241]

Very useful post. Thanks.

[@Siliciumleben]

Can someone tell me how to set a branch? The deploy context option doesnt show on my account. Google didnt help either

[@vedanthikarthik5926]

Recently I deployed reactjs application in netlify... Locally its seems to be fine... But when I deploy it in netlify some html content(just the text) goes missing and when I navigate to other pages and return to the page which I'm facing issue, the issue doest exists... Please someone help me with this issue

[@sourabhpatel7952]

css muscle memory at full display while changing the domain name ...

[@SquaredbyX]

How did you do that with your password? Does it just fill in after entering so no one knows how long your password is? How to please?

[@KevinPowell]

I cut that part out, but I also use a password manager so I don't have to type it in anyway :)

[@Stoney_Eagle]

Mentioning a certain ddos/caching service and a competing repository service get my comment removed. Do you have these 2 blocked?

[@DawidBudzinski]

Dziękujemy.

[@KevinPowell]

Thank you so much!

[@hunchothafinesseboi7652]

@@KevinPowell hello you've been of great help, i'm having an issue with deploying my site its taking long this is my first project i want to host s it normal ?

[@wemestros]

do you have any recommendations on dynamic sites?

[@omkaryadav7445]

Hey kevin if you are reading this..want some advise on one topic..i completely learnt html & css ...but i am faling to design layout for website..i am failing to code in css...if i code i am failing to create a responsive layout...how to improve all these points what to do...like i think one night before that i will do this this things tomorrow..but when i wake up in the next morning i am completely blank and clueless..What should I do?? Please if you replied me it will be so valuable for me please 🙏

[@KevinPowell]

It's really important not to just watch tutorials, but to build along with them. Understanding something is very different from being able to do something. You might know the steps to ride a unicycle, but of you tried to get on, you fall right away. Learning anything else is the same, just less painful 😅. Start small, and if you do follow a tutorial, then built the same thing without it. See if you can, or of you get stuck. And practice, practice, practice. It takes a long time to get there 🙂

[@sushantchoudhary07]

how much money can be made by learning only html css and bootstrap?

[@KristofNachtergaele]

if i wanted to host with them, but also wanted to have email for that domain, how would i do such a thing?

[@KevinPowell]

You'd need to purchase email hosting. Ive used a few different providers over the years, usually pretty easy to set up

[@KristofNachtergaele]

@@KevinPowell any suggestions for those? Most i found were almost as expensive as cheap hosting for a small site itself.

[@rishimondal3010]

Can it handle website traffic?

[@SharonKlinkenberg]

Why use netlify when you can directly host from your github repo, usung github pages? What is the benefit?

[@TomBellenger]

Yeah exactly. I don’t get it?

[@ADesignerWhoCodes]

Can't turn private repos into GitHub pages. Netlify is great for when you want your repo private but your site public. And if you are using React / Gatsby / Next JS, you would have to build, upload then deploy. Netlify does the build for you.

[@KevinPowell]

Netlify does more that GitHub pages, and I find the process easier as well. If it's just static HTML/CSS/JS then it's not a big difference, but as soon as there is a build process involved, Netlify takes the cake :)

[@mojosulo]

Hi Kevin! Would you consider doing a tutorial on this setup but with a CMS?

[@guidomontilva]

Can I use wordpress on netlify?

[@WeberChang-i7c]

Gosh, should have used this instead of heroku. The free server of heroku automatically shuts down if it hasn't been used for half an hour, does this same situation happens to netlify, too?

[@blessedzulu]

No. Not at all. Netlify doesn't have this limitation.

[@WeberChang-i7c]

@@blessedzulu thanks, guess I'll move all my stuff onto netlify

[@ПавелЖуравлев-к8ш]

Netlify never shuts down, but, unlike Heroku, it is for static sites only. If you want to host something Node based you may like Vercel

[@WeberChang-i7c]

@@ПавелЖуравлев-к8ш my website is quite basic for the moment. Only a few HTML, CSS files, and a Python flask server. Still considering whether change it onto Netlify or not since that means I have to dump the flask server (or use frozen), and the upgradability will kinda be limited. But my website will be faster at loading. Such a tough choice.

[@kcvanroose]

Here’s me an ex personal trainer like “oh force carbs is this a new diet!?” 😅

[@akashdey1730]

Hi Kevin do you do react js videos?

[@KevinPowell]

Nope. If I have any JS, which isn't often, it'll be vanilla. And if ever I have some JS framework, it would probably be Svelte 🙂. A lot of great channels out there for React content already 🙂

[@tastefulbob6954]

does anyone know any free file managers for a website, i tried using netlify LFS but cant seem to access the assets

[@notso_geek]

That's great, I am on a front-end project to learn how to communicate with an API. I will be able to share my advanced directly like that rather than giving the link to clone the repo.

[@aqibros]

What free domain name did he talk about? i know about freenom but it gives me technical difficulties. it would be very helpful if i able to get one. and Thanks for the information, your videos are really good and helpful.

[@KevinPowell]

I think .tk are free - but Google isn't a fan of them, if you want to rank for search

[@MiroslavGalic]

What was that got client? Thanks.

[@thebirdhasbeencharged]

Github Desktop

[@TheThirdWorldCitizen]

It’s very convenient for personal projects or when you barely expect contributions

[@TheThirdWorldCitizen]

@@thebirdhasbeencharged never heard of it tbh, but I used to freaking love sublime text, so I bet it’s really good. But for me windows terminal and occasional gh desktop is fine

[@thebirdhasbeencharged]

@@TheThirdWorldCitizen I prefer sublime merge actually, tired of these bloated electron apps and it's much more feature rich and performant. I do 90% of my work in the terminal as well but complex rebases and squashes or hunting down old commits is much easier with a gui.

[@mahmoudalhussain9291]

Can i upload php project with Netlify ?

[@jaahopeace9668]

Is it possible to run react file

[@hiteshpaliwal8171]

Thanks Sir. I really searching for it.

[@ShakyIpsen]

How can i use this with a php project?. I've tried to change the places in the package.json file that says html to php. but it doesnt work, i get this error "Cannot GET /". Works great with html. Love the video btw!

[@KevinPowell]

No, you can't use it with PHP, only static sites.

[@ShakyIpsen]

@@KevinPowell Okay, thanks for the quick answer :)

[@hardwired66]

❤️

[@YouGG]

my your hair is gray? you are not old at all!

[@simplegametutorials1341]

Is it free???

[@tuhin1264]

Everything on the internet is free, if you are passionate enough to find it.

[@araputrevor5103]

i followed this and deployed my site in 30mins

[@dunder9444]

that password is longer than my ..... t-shirt.

[@SwapnilNakate7]

Yeah I thought why are you not using git commands

[@avi12]

9:46 If you let Netlify build your website, it will not publish it if the build fails

[@blazi_0]

Hi 👋, is free hosting services good for an important project . Does it matter ?? I mean do paid hosting increase to site popularity??

[@avi12]

@@blazi_0 If you make your sure popular, it'll be popular

[@asadali1268]

🧠

[@shafatsoumya5281]

300 like

[@18.j]

4:50 How do you memories your github password lol huge pass

[@amieexxcauntie2671]

Tooooo small.... I can't see it

[@faosparkNeo]

the most adamant command line users are the worst in UI and UX. sorry just i had to say it.

[@zr60]

What kind of video is this? This doesn't even have a server or database?! wut!?

[@khizrshaikh9902]

Second I want heart

[@harshmarathe05]

BRUH

[@harshmarathe05]

I want free hosting + free costume domain name

[@harshmarathe05]

If you done that then I will sub to you

[@Loki_Dokie]

Geocities, Angelfire, I feel old. 🥲