Stephen and Chris jump on the podcast to talk about our (ahem, super cool) deployment feature.
Any Pen can be a website!
Well, they kinda are already, but you know what I mean.
If you’re a PRO user all you do is click a button and the Pen is instantly deployed at a *.codepen.app website. From there, it’s pretty trivial to update a domain you own’s DNS records to point to it, if you want to. Subdomains are a good choice, partially because they are free.
Why is CodePen a good place to host? We take care of the asset decaching, everything is CDN-backed and super fast, deployment is instant, it’s DDoS proof, and it’s just included in your PRO plan without silly complicated limits.
Time Jumps
- 00:00:11 Chris’ favorite new feature of CodePen v2 (spoiler: it’s deployment)
- 00:04:04 We deploy for you
- 00:06:10 How to use a custom domain on a Pen
- 00:08:15 Using subdomains instead of a domain
- 00:10:23 How do you go live with changes on your Pen?
- 00:13:08 We handle SSL certificates for you
- 00:16:06 Optional deploy on save setting
- 00:17:17 How many IP addresses does CodePen want to maintain?
- 00:21:03 What happens if you downgrade?