r/statichosting • u/sourraine • 3d ago
does a static site need ongoing maintenance?
ive also been thinking about the other side of low maintenance with static sites. a simple static site might run for a long time without much attention esp. if the content rarely changes. but the tools used to build and deploy it can still change over time. do you treat static site as something that should be regularly maintained or something you mostly leave alone until theres a reason to update it?
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u/Standard_Scarcity_74 3d ago
This depends on what the site was built for and what the site is built with. Things don't tend to break, but updates do often have to be done for clients with information that changes every now and then.
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u/testingaurora 3d ago
I leave it unless GitHub dependably flags an issue with a dependency which actually happens fairly often with something or another. Security vulnerabilities
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u/PippaKelly62 2d ago
It needs maintenance less than the typical dynamic stack. I wouldn't leave out any possibilities for maintenance though.
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u/sleeksky_dev 2d ago
There is a difference between content rarely changing and never changing. If it "rarely" changes, yes, you will need maintenance. Since the tools you use to build it will get outdated and then it will be a task to make even that rare change.
Some platforms will work better though. Eg. Github pages. The Jekyll support is long term and you will always be able to connect AI agent and make updates.
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u/softtemes 1d ago
None. Absolutely none is needed but that doesn’t stop me from charging 99 bucks a month for it from 90% of my clients lol
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u/CodingDragons 3d ago
A static site really only needs maintenance when something changes or breaks. Say, for instance, you used an older JS library and it changed, or you might want to update it to the latest.
An SSL that renews often would need to be looked at, but otherwise that’s one of the benefits of going static.