Static sites are fast, secure, and easy to manage. They’re fast, secure, and easy to manage. The JAMStack movement help made it popular (after SPAs)

Announcing Buntastic: A Fast, High-Performance Static Site Server (OSS)

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2025-01-18 10:30:02

Static sites are fast, secure, and easy to manage. They’re fast, secure, and easy to manage. The JAMStack movement help made it popular (after SPAs) and static site builders like Hugo and Eleventy are making it simple to build websites in this manner. I dare not mention Astro because it’s the new kid making building static sites cooler than ever.

These options are good but as with most things, there are different people with different needs and preferences. There are people who like to self-host their own things, and there are some who manage a lot of projects and want a flexible way to manage and customise them. If you’re one of those people, you’ll love Buntastic.

Buntastic is a high-performance static site server that’s designed to be fast, flexible, and easy to use. It’s built to run on Bun(a fast and modern JavaScript runtime) and its S3 API. It uses any S3-compatible object storage to store the site files. However, I’d recommend you use Tigris because it can cache objects globally, making it faster for you to access them from anywhere in the world. Think of it like AWS S3 and CloudFront combined, but in this case you don’t have to pay extra for global cache or worry about setting up an extra tool.

If you want to deploy in multiple regions so that your users can have lower latency, I’d Fly.io because scaling to zero and multi-region deployment is as simple as running a single command.