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lipanski / docker-static-website

docker-static-website

A very small Docker image (~80KB) to run any static website

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4Mentions
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1KGitHub stars
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What it is

A very small Docker image (~80KB) to run any static website

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-04-13 02:14:13 UTC to 2025-08-24 04:16:04 UTC.

0122022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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If this is the nano version then let me share the pico alternatives with you: * BusyBox httpd [1] * thttpd [2] * Lwan Web Server [3] * gatling [4] I built and maintain a super tiny Docker image (~158KB) for serving static files [5]. My current implementation is based on Busybox httpd and scratch but I also tried out thttpd in the past, which worked well but came with a high memory footprint in some cases. thttpd was used to serve big projects back in the day but it doesn't seem maintained any more. The other two projects were on my list of things to try out. All these projects should compile to binaries <500KB. By comparison nano-web builds a 18.5MB image on my machine. In my experience you can't go below 5-6MB with Alpine (scratch is the way to go if you can compile statically) and you can't go below ~500KB with Golang or Rust, at least
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not for serving http requests (C or ASM is probably the way to go). Note that I'm not saying that small is always better, it probably depends on your use case and there are reasons for using nginx for a static website as well. [1] https://www.busybox.net/ [2] https://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ [3] https://lwan.ws/ [4] https://www.fefe.de/gatling/ [5] https://github.com/lipanski/docker-static-website
In Show HN: Nano-web – a low latency one binary webserver designed for serving SPAs

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