The ultimate list of services for static websites

Think you need a backend? Think again. With the huge number of plugins, apps and services you can drop into static sites, there’s not a lot you can’t do.

There’s no hiding it, we love static websites. They’re simple, easy to maintain and super fast. Not everyone shares our slightly obsessive point of view though. The main reasons we hear for not using static websites are:

1. Non-technical users can’t update static websites easily. This is a problem we’re working hard to solve at CloudCannon.

2. I can’t do this without a backend. With the huge number of apps and services you can drop into static websites there’s actually not a lot you can’t do with static websites.

Today I’m rounding up the best of these services.

This is only scratching the surface of the apps and services available for static websites.

What services have I missed?