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I think even Docker might be a big ask. I mean, my experience so far has been that a lot of the people that this is targeted towards are still using platforms like Wordpress, Drupal, and Magento (all php...). Heck, git adoption still isn't 100% in this market; I just recently received sftp credentials from an agency that works in this niche.


Command line would be the only necessity. You can write a script that could download docker & run it. That's what I meant by Makefile too.


I'd say CLI access is an even higher bar. Even in most medium-sized companies, the website people would never be able to get shell access in a reasonable amount of time, if at all, as they might be using web or CMS hosting.

Scale this up to a government organization, and the chance of it happening is basically zero, especially in an emergency. And even if they host their own web servers and manage to get access to them, the chances of them being able to run Docker or really anything besides what they were set up for without unreasonable effort are slim at best.

I'm not saying Netlify is a good solution, but it's one that a single creative tech could figure out and set up in a day and would be almost guaranteed to work well.


Agreed. Think something like sheet2site.com, but even then it requires one to be familiar with spreadsheets.




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