Open cyboolo opened 6 years ago
The first step to solving this would be addressing #77, so that people could use a different storage backend if they hit limits with Github.
I'm not sure how LFS works either, but that could be an option. As part of #77 we could also split out content and assets (ie: images, etc), which we've been wanting to do on the SDK anyway.
Github support: Hi Olivier,
Thanks for reaching out! GitHub's main use is for version control, and it is not intended for use as a backend or content distribution network for large amounts of files. If you need to store and distribute a lot of files, we recommend using a dedicated CDN for that purpose instead.
Data packs only apply to Git LFS – we don't offer any storage upgrades outside of LFS.
I hope that helps clarify things! Feel free to let us know if you have any other questions.
All the best, Ari
So, in my opinion, it would be priority number 1 to have github alternative. If not that means that apps made with simpla can not be scaled so that means plans limitations, storage survey (not possible with github api),...
And i tried git lfs but don’t work outside of terminal push... or i didn’t understand how to upload or push to use lfs... and anyway i am quite sure that pointers created will create issues with simpla.
For instance, my app is built with sashido.io and parse server, similar to firebase. I could really easily store json files and uploaded images on my database and create functions to set, update, delete, query... but i don’t know how to link to your code.
But github limitation is really big issue for me. It means I have 1 Gb for all users! I am coding to create one github repo asociated to one netlify site for each of my users to have 1 Gb/user but 1 Gb is nothing.
Hope you find a good alternative fastly or at least some kind of adapter that allows simpla user to put _content data where they want.
If not, that means simpla could be use for very simple static sites with few pages.
Yep, as per #77, custom storage adapters are on the roadmap. FWIW, 1gb of content is a fair bit, NetlifyCMS (which powers sites like Smashing Magazine) runs on Github as well. But still a valid concern, which will be addressed by opening up storage as an adapter rather than hard-coding Github.
I managed via netlify and github api to create one specific site and repo for each of my user.
I import an existing repo of my model static site on each new repo. This model has bower libraries included... quite heavy... Could I install these by npm build on deploying on netlify or via bower install...to avoid to have to import those libraries each time?
Yep, Netlify will autoamtically install Bower dependencies for you on build
Hi,
It's not an issue... not yet
I was wondering... simpla uses github as a backend to store data... it's ok
BUT, there is a storage limit of 1 Gb on github repository... as I am storing images and texts from multiple domains from 1 repository... how do you think I should scale
I saw git lfs but I don't understand how it works and I am not sure that pointers created will work with simpla...
So it's just an interrogation right now... but could become a big issue or a big limitation of using simpla in my case if I don't know how to handle this in the future.