WEBSPIN

Static websites hosted directly from Upspin directories in two steps.

Usage

Point your domain name to this server.
Add a TXT record for _upspin underneath it with the upspin path to the website's files.

E.g. to serve a site from u@example.com/pub on www.example.com, modify www.example.com's DNS settings to be a CNAME of webspin.party and add a TXT record on _upspin.www.example.com with the desired Upspin path.

www.example.com.         CNAME webspin.party.
_upspin.www.example.com. TXT   u@example.com/pub

Browse to https://www.example.com/ and you should see your files. Webspin uses Let's Encrypt to automatically get a TLS certificate.

Notes

u@example.com/pub has to be publicly readable and listable. That is, u@example.com/pub/Access should look like:
```
*: u@example.com
read, list: all
```
DNS does not allow you to use a CNAME at the apex of a zone (i.e. example.com rather than something.example.com). If that's what you want, some DNS hosts (e.g. Cloudflare, Route 53) can synthesise that for you (often called "flattening" or "aliasing"). If yours doesn't do that, you can use this server's IP addresses (IPv6 & IPv4) directly, but they might change.

Disclaimer

The author takes absolutely no responsibity and offers no promises for the reliability or availability of this experiment.