trifold is a tool to serve static websites using a content delivery network (CDN).

Source: https://codeberg.org/jpt/trifold/

This allows painless deployment of sites consisting entirely of static assets (HTML, CSS, JS, images) for pennies a month. It is the perfect companion to deploy sites built with static-site generators like Hugo, Zola, Quarto, or zensical.

The tool provides a simple CLI that allows:

• initializing new projects without touching the CDN web interface
• syncing local HTML/CSS/JS/etc. to the CDN & clearing the cache
• configuring a custom domain name to point at your files, with SSL enabled
• setting a maximum monthly cost to avoid surprise bills
• using CDN edge functions to support redirects

This project grew out of frustration with services making their free tier less friendly to indie devs and students that just need a cheap & reliable place they can host things. trifold offers an easy alternative to services like Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and GitHub pages.

Instead of relying on a free service it is hopefully going to be more stable to rely on a paid service with a reasonable price point and the ability to set billing limits.

Installation¶

If you have uv installed, you can run uvx trifold without a separate installation step.

This is the recommended method, uvx is a built-in alias for uv tool run. (See https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/tools/#running-tools if you’re curious to learn more.)

To upgrade: uv tool upgrade trifold

You can also use any Python package manager you prefer, pip, pipx, poetry, etc. to install in your preferred manner.

bunny.net & pricing¶

At the moment bunny.net1 is the only supported provider, but others can be added.

bunny.net is a professional-grade CDN that is also very affordable.

Like most hosts, they charge for both storage & bandwidth. Both starts at $0.01/GB/mo.

The typical static webpage is under 1GB, meaning storage costs will be negligible unless you decide to host audio/video. And if you do, the rates are far cheaper than most competitors, see their pricing for details.

In terms of bandwidth, let’s say your page size is 2MB (a moderate-sized page) and hits the front page of a popular website, driving a surge of 25,000 hits. (Congrats!)

Not only will your site handle the traffic just fine, your total bill will be $0.50 for the 50GB of bandwidth used. (You could serve a million hits, ~2TB, for $20.)

Of course, most sites will only get a fraction of this traffic.

It is possible to host dozens of low-traffic sites for the $1/monthly minimum bill.

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