Shipping Static Sites to Production: DNS, Droplets, and GitHub Actions
You have a static site — HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You want it on a real domain, deploying automatically when you push. This post is the exact playbook I use to get a site from “works locally” to “live at yourdomain.com with zero-touch deployments.” The stack: a DigitalOcean droplet, nginx, and GitHub Actions deploying via rsync. The Full Picture Before getting into steps, here is what the end state looks like: ...