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title: 3rd Party
permalink: /docs/deployment/third-party/
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## Aerobatic

[Aerobatic](https://www.aerobatic.com) has custom domains, global CDN distribution, basic auth, CORS proxying, and a growing list of plugins all included.

Automating the deployment of a Jekyll site is simple. See their [Jekyll docs](https://www.aerobatic.com/docs/static-site-generators/#jekyll) for more details. Your built `_site` folder is deployed to their highly-available, globally distributed hosting service.

## CloudCannon

[CloudCannon](https://cloudcannon.com) has everything you need to build, host
and update Jekyll websites. Take advantage of our global CDN, automated SSL,
continuous deployment and [more](https://cloudcannon.com/features/).

## GitHub Pages

Sites on GitHub Pages are powered by Jekyll behind the scenes, so if you’re looking for a zero-hassle, zero-cost solution, GitHub Pages are a great way to [host your Jekyll-powered website for free](/docs/github-pages/).

## Kickster

Use [Kickster](http://kickster.nielsenramon.com/) for easy (automated) deploys to GitHub Pages when using unsupported plugins on GitHub Pages.

Kickster provides a basic Jekyll project setup packed with web best practises and useful optimization tools increasing your overall project quality. Kickster ships with automated and worry-free deployment scripts for GitHub Pages.

Setting up Kickster is very easy, just install the gem and you are good to go. More documentation can here found [here](https://github.com/nielsenramon/kickster#kickster). If you do not want to use the gem or start a new project you can just copy paste the deployment scripts for [Travis CI](https://github.com/nielsenramon/kickster/tree/master/snippets/travis) or [Circle CI](https://github.com/nielsenramon/kickster#automated-deployment-with-circle-ci).


## Netlify

Netlify provides Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and [much more](https://www.netlify.com/features/), providing developers the most robust toolset available for modern web projects, without added complexity. Netlify supports custom plugins for Jekyll and has a free plan for open source projects.

Read this [Jekyll step-by-step guide](https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/10/28/a-step-by-step-guide-jekyll-3.0-on-netlify/) to setup your Jekyll site on Netlify.

## Static Publisher

[Static Publisher](https://github.com/static-publisher/static-publisher) is another automated deployment option with a server listening for webhook posts, though it's not tied to GitHub specifically. It has a one-click deploy to Heroku, it can watch multiple projects from one server, it has an easy to user admin interface and can publish to either S3 or to a git repository (e.g. gh-pages).
