Congratulations! You’ve adopted the Jamstack way and have discovered the joy of using a local static site generator to turn dynamic content into simple files. The next step is to get those files on the internet so that they can be an actual website as opposed to a set of bits on your device.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover multiple different options for getting those files online and available to the world at large. We’ll cover the pros and cons of each, so you can determine which option makes sense for you and your project.
The first and simplest solution for hosting your Jamstack content is the solution we’ve used since the beginning of the web: a simple web server. Web servers like Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/) and IIS (https://www.iis.net/) have been around for decades and have powered everything from the smallest fan site to the largest e-commerce sites on the internet.