I wonder how much inspiration they have taken from there. It looks like they have uploaded their demo site to: http://dane2.staticloud.com/
Who would be the target market for this sort of service. It is potentially quite niche. Is it targeted towards users technical enough to be able to write html, css, and javascript. But not technical enough to use say Amazon's new static web site options on S3 http://bit.ly/h1rcJ8 or github's static hosting option?
We found out about Staticloud after we started but decided to keep going because we wanted to create something that people could use for their serious websites (like portfolios). Thus the need to have ownership of your subdomain and be able to add and remove files etc...
We were inspired partially by the struggles of our less technically minded classmates [we go to design school] who can piece together a simple portfolio but end up paying $5 a month to tear their hair out trying to figure out how to host their site on Godaddy.
The primary market for this are people who glaze over when you start talking about DNS Servers or CNAME. But that is definitely something that would be cool to add.
Even for those of us who don't glaze over when you start talking DNS, there's certainly something attractive about the simplicity that you've achieved. With coralrift I can publish a static site in 15 seconds. I'd love to be able to configure the coralrift side to match my TLD in another 15 seconds. I won't mind configuring the other side of DNS "manually".
Agreed. Sort of like huge number blogger.com users who just use the blogspot.com domain for their blog even though the CNAME option is there. CNAM-ing seems like an easy advanced feature to add later.
Small suggestion: the first instruction was to "drag zipped website here", but it did not mention that I need a file exactly called "index.html" inside. Maybe change it to "drag zipped website containing your index.html here" ? I understand that it gets too long, but then, your first response to customer would be "womp womp womp".
No versioning or live editing. Of course you can always reupload individual files or a new zip and it will replace whatever was there.
For the moment there are no image restrictions.
I think that in the video you should get rid of the elevator music and have someone narrating the most important points about the service, such as how it differentiates itself, what are the limits (storage capacity, etc).
Also, GeoCities 2.0, c/d?