static site
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A static site is a website that is served by a web server directly from the file system.
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SecuriTay @SwiftOnSecurity: All I know about Paul Graham is he uses static HTML pages instead of Wordpress and that makes him smarter than most of us.
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Sending Webmentions
The services below can be used to send Webmentions for a static website.
Telegraph
Telegraph is an open source project and hosted service for sending Webmentions and pingbacks. You can use it to send mentions to all links on a page, or send a webmention with specific source and target.
stapibas
stapibas is an application that sends linkbacks for all links in an atom feed, and receive incoming linkbacks.
lazymention
lazymention is a server that, when pinged, will crawl an h-feed and send Webmentions for any new content it sees. There may be a hosted version eventually, but 
AJ Jordan has to work out some security things first.
Receiving Webmentions
The services below can be used to receive webmentions for a static website.
webmention.herokuapp.com
webmention.herokuapp.com is an open-source project and hosted service for receiving webmentions for registered sites and allowing those to be displayed through javascript.
webmention.io
webmention.io is an open-source project and hosted service for receiving webmentions and pingbacks on behalf of your indieweb site.
Micropub
Static sites that wish to support Micropub will need to run a Micropub endpoint somewhere that has access to the file storage used by the static site or static site generator.
- nanopub - for Hugo
- webpage-micropub-to-github - for Jekyll sites hosted on GitHub Pages
See Also
- static site generator (includes a list of projects)
- http://nilclass.com/courses/what-is-a-static-website/
- Static domain hosting
- file-storage
- https://speakerdeck.com/feministy/in-defense-of-static-sites
- https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2017/03/fireside-fiction-company-is-science-fictions-best-kept-secret/
- http://www.oreilly.com/web-platform/free/static-site-generators.csp
- https://www.raymondcamden.com/2017/03/07/working-with-static-sites-final-release
- https://davidea.st/articles/measuring-server-side-rendering-performance-is-tricky
- minimal python static site generator https://l4ur3n.github.io/blog/simple-blogging-engine.html
- https://github.com/zachleat/eleventy
- http://www.ftwynn.com/articles/creating-a-post-api-for-hugo/
- Why / use-cases, see thread: https://twitter.com/drewm/status/983634762433810432
- "What do you think the best use cases are for a static site generator?" @drewm April 10, 2018
- https://qubyte.codes/blog/automatic-announcement-of-new-blog-entries POSSE to Twitter using Glitch
