Will it allow all website features?

[Jake200200]

I am trying to build a website based off of another gitbook website that I currently have. In the free plan it makes it not appear exactly as the gitbook I have because it is missing features that are only unlocked if I have the premium version. I am very much willing to pay for the upgrade, but I am worried that if I pay for the upgrade the website will not be exactly how the gitbook is. Can I have some assurance that it will be the exact same before I pay for the plan? Also if I make changes in the gitbook later on how can I implement those changes in the website I have built using this app?

Any help is appreciated!

[dan3008]

@Jake200200

gitbook

Honestly I’ve never used gitbook, so I’m not sure if all the features are their. As for the site being “exactly the same” thats really down to how you build it. But the way you build it may have to vary

What specific features of gitbook are missing from the free account? If we know what you’re looking for then we can offer more accurate advice

[Admin]

Why are you asking this here?

As far as I can tell, GitBook is a static website hosting service that integrates with Git. I don’t see any way to host it yourself, or publish a GitBook website to our hosting.

If so, all I can tell you is that we don’t lock any website features behind a paywall. You can use any software to build your website on InfinityFree, and thanks to the power of PHP you can create basically any functionality with it!

[Jake200200]

I am not sure where else I can ask this.

Do you think I can contact someone to help me figure out if I can host it fully with the functions? If I see that it works I am willing to upgrade to Business if it is possible! Thank you for your response.

[Admin]

@Jake200200

I am not sure where else I can ask this.

Does GitBook have a support channel or forum or something like that?

There must be better places to ask it than the support forum of a completely random company that has nothing to do with the service you want to know about.

@Jake200200

Do you think I can contact someone to help me figure out if I can host it fully with the functions?

I would hope so, but again, I have no idea, because it’s a service from a company we have zero relation with at all. I have vaguely heard of it before, but that’s basically it.

@Jake200200

If I see that it works I am willing to upgrade to Business if it is possible!

I’m not sure why you’re telling that here. It’s a completely different service from a completely different company.

If often see people here saying thing like “if you can do X for me, then I may upgrade to premium hosting”. But then we actually benefit from that upgrade. You’re talking about buying something from an unaffiliated company, why do we care?

It’s basically saying “if I can make my website work today, I will treat myself to a nice dinner tonight”. That’s good for you I guess, but we have no benefit from that.

[Jake200200]

No what I was saying is that I want to host my gitbook data on this website instead, I already have the gitbook ready but I no longer want to use gitbook and instead want to use your services, so I was asking that if it integrates properly then I will upgrade to business here. So it would actually benefit you. I understand where the misunderstanding could’ve happened tho!

[Admin]

Ah… that clarifies a lot.

I should stress again that I’m not that familiar with GitBook, and I’m not completely sure how it works or what it can do. So take what I write with a grain of salt.

You should understand though that GitBook and our hosting are completely different services. GitBook is essentially a managed website builder. But instead of doing everything through their interface with a drag-and-drop editor (like you’d see with Site.Pro), the content itself is fetched from a Git repository.

Our hosting does not really give you website building software. It gives you the space to choose and setup your own website building software. Some publish a static site, some use our website builder, some use software like WordPress and some build a completely custom site from scratch.

Most of the features offered by GitBook are not features you’ll find with us, or any other “web hosting” service for that matter. Localization, authentication and analytics integration are features that must be offered by your website building software.

So whether you can replicate your GitBook setup here depends on the features you need and the software you will use.

When it comes to publishing documentation, my first guess would be something like MkDocs, which just turns markdown files into pretty HTML content. You could run those in a CI pipeline to build the website and push it to your hosting account over FTP. What your website looks like then is configured entirely in your code, but you won’t have any features like authentication because it’s all static HTML.

For something more advanced, I’ve heard good things about BookStack, which is like a CMS for documentation. But I’m not sure how close it is in functionality to GitBook.

WordPress also has plugins for basically anything you can imagine, so I’m sure that you could build a documentation site with WordPress too.

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Regardless, it doesn’t really matter which hosting plans you use. Free hosting, premium hosting and business hosting are ultimately all web hosting, which is not as purpose built or locked down as something like GitBook, which has a much more narrow use case.

[Jake200200]

Thanks for your reply, so now that you understand my purpose of my question a bit more, is it possible for someone to double check if what I want is possible? If it were possible I can end up signing up for at least a year plan.

[Admin]

@Jake200200

Thanks for your reply, so now that you understand my purpose of my question a bit more, is it possible for someone to double check if what I want is possible?

That’s the thing: I don’t know what you want. I know you want something like GitBook, but none of the options I listed are exactly identical to GitBook. So it really depends on which functionality from GitBook you need, which functionality you don’t need, or for which functionality you’re willing to accept alternatives.

So I don’t know enough about what exactly you need from website software to be able to tell you exactly which options is best for you.

I gave you a number of different options with a few reasons why you might pick them. Please have a look at them and see which one might fit your needs.

@Jake200200

If it were possible I can end up signing up for at least a year plan.

All of the options I listed can be hosted on any hosting plan. If you want to buy premium hosting, that’s great, but it doesn’t make me able to give you a better recommendation as to which software you should use.