On the other hand, we already had an automated deployment solution: our continuous integration server, TeamCity, which is also hosted on Azure. Consequently, it was a reasonable solution to host the website on Azure with all our other resources. We are familiar with configuration of IIS server. We are already Bizspark member, our web apps, APIs, VMs etc. As the CTO of Keluro, I had not a lot of time to investigate all alternatives and wanted a simple solution.

There are always exception when it comes to project pages with Github pages.įor all these reasons I wanted to quit Github pages. We use a project page rather than a personal page, it was complicated to configure DNS names etc. these are extra technicalities that our non-tech teammates working on the website are not aware of and we do not want them to spend time on this. However, the server running Github pages are Linux servers, so you face the technicalities coming from switching between Linux/Windows: CRLF vs LF etc. We do not want our website to get down because of a silent release of a new Jekyll revision.Īt Keluro due to our business model we are windows users. We found out that there are some breaking changes introduced when migrating from Jekyll 2 to Jekyll 3. You do not control the version of Jekyll run by Github pages. We had problem with Facebook scrapping our open graph meta tags and there was nothing we could do about it: see issue here. Even if it works, I am more and more thinking that a Jekyll gem would do a better job… I have already blogged about our solution to support multi-lang website. They are ruby extensions, which is the technology on which Jekyll is based on. With Githup pages you cannot use custom advanced gems.

We could not tune some server caching configuration (ETag, Cache-Control etc.), resulting on poor results from Google Page Speed Insights. At Keluro we do have a wild card SSL certificate, its a shame that we could not use it for our public corporate website! As Google announced, http over SSL is now a bonus in terms of rankings. However, we suffer many inconveniences with it: We hosted the website almost a year in Github pages.

To me, the best feature of Github pages is the automated deployment of your website when pushing on a specific branch (namely ‘gh-pages’). If you are a Jekyll user you are probably aware of Github pages. The public website of my company Keluro is built with Jekyll.

Alternative to jekyll for windows user