# Any recommendations for hosting elm examples?
**URL:** https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652
**Category:** Learn
**Created:** [August 17, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652 "2018-08-17T15:44:37Z")
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### Author:  [@rupert](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/rupert)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/1 "2018-08-17T15:44:38Z")
I have seen this one mentioned a couple of times on Slack?
> **[About ZEIT](https://zeit.co/about)**
>
> We build products for developers and designers. And those who aspire to become one.
Has anyone a recommended way of publishing elm examples? So I can put up bigger pieces of work than a typically Ellie to share demos. Maybe someone has a build script to share that publishes an example?
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### Author:  [@Sidney](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/Sidney)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/2 "2018-08-17T16:54:04Z")
If you’ve got static content, Github Pages is convenient and pretty easy to use. (There are NPM packages that will automate the deploy process – try searching for `gh pages deploy`).
If you need server-side processing with the language of your choice, the only free solution I know of is Heroku (edit:) and Zeit (but they’re limited). For paid solutions, Zeit’s Now, Heroku, and Digital Ocean are all great. I believe Ellie uses Zeit’s Now.
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### Author:  [@rupert](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/rupert)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/3 "2018-08-17T17:04:39Z")
Thanks, Github pages will do nicely, don’t need any server-side.
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### Author:  [@joakin](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/joakin)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/4 "2018-08-17T18:37:43Z")
I usually use [https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages](https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages) with the [Command line utility](https://www.npmjs.com/package/gh-pages#command-line-utility) docs method:
```json
{
"scripts": {
"deploy": "gh-pages -d public"
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@fizwidget](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/fizwidget)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 1:13am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/5 "2018-08-18T01:13:48Z")
+1 for Github pages. I’ve hacked together a [deployment script](https://github.com/fizwidget/game-of-life/blob/master/scripts/deploy.sh) for using it in my projects, but sounds like I could replace that with the gh-pages util mentioned above!
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### Author:  [@mattpiz](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/mattpiz)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 3:07am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/6 "2018-08-18T03:07:17Z")
By the way, it is not for permanent hosting, but if you want to show an elm app of yours for a few minutes to a friend not on the same local network than you, ngrok is awesome. You just start your local server, say `python -m http.server 8888`, then you start ngrok, `ngrok http 8888` and in few seconds it gives you a generated address like `http://b938248cd.ngrok.io` that you can share with your friends and is a realtime proxy to your local server. There are of course limitations (nb connections, etc.) but for the use case of just showing temporarily to friend / collegue for demo, I find it perfect.
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### Author:  [@joakin](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/joakin)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/7 "2018-08-18T11:14:23Z")
> [@mattpiz](#):
>
> ngrok is awesome
Shout out to [`localtunnel`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/localtunnel) too as a ngrok alternative, great tools!
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### Author:  [@edkv](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/edkv)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/8 "2018-08-18T16:08:40Z")
@rupert Firebase is also a good option
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/any-recommendations-for-hosting-elm-examples/1652/9 "2018-08-28T16:08:45Z")
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