---
title: "Deploy to other hosts"
description: "Publish your site to any static host, or run it as a server on Netlify, Node or Vercel."
---

> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://nimbus-docs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Deploy to other hosts

A Nimbus site builds to static files by default, so any host that serves files can run it. Astro's [deploy guides](https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/deploy/) cover each host's settings.

## Prerequisites

- A Nimbus site. Scaffold with `--deploy other` to leave out the Cloudflare files, or delete `wrangler.jsonc` and the `deploy`, `predeploy` and `preview:cf` scripts from an existing one.

## Steps

1. **Set the site address**

   In `astro.config.ts`, set `site` in the Nimbus config to the address readers will use. On Netlify and Vercel production builds, Nimbus reads the address from the host while `site` is still the placeholder.
2. **Build**

   ```sh
   npm run build
   yarn run build
   pnpm run build
   bun run build
   ```
3. **Publish the output**

   Upload the `dist/` folder to your host, or point the host's build settings at `npm run build` with `dist` as the output directory.

## Verify

Open the deployed address, then the homepage's Markdown version at `/index.md`. Both load: the host is serving the HTML and the agent files.

## With a server

[Request rendering](/reference/rendering), the [remote MCP server](/ai/remote-mcp) and [Markdown at page URLs](/ai/markdown-negotiation) need a server. Add the adapter for your host:

```sh
npx @cloudflare/nimbus-docs add adapter-node
yarn nimbus-docs add adapter-node
pnpm nimbus-docs add adapter-node
bunx @cloudflare/nimbus-docs add adapter-node
```

For Netlify or Vercel, use `adapter-netlify` or `adapter-vercel`. On Node, the installer adds a `start` script, `node ./dist/server/entry.mjs`. To start a new site with a server, pass `--adapter` to the scaffolder.

## Redirects and headers

Redirects in `astro.config.ts` reach every host. The old Markdown and `llms.txt` URLs need host rules too; see [Redirects](/navigation/redirects#host-level-redirects). Nimbus writes headers to `_headers`, which hosts other than Cloudflare and Netlify may ignore; set the [discovery headers](/ai/agent-discovery#homepage-link-header) in the host's own configuration.

## Deploy from CI

The "Last updated" line and the sitemap's dates come from git history, and most CI systems clone only the latest commit. Set `fetch-depth: 0` on the checkout step in GitHub Actions, or run `git fetch --unshallow`, before the build.

## Next steps

- [Serve under a path](/deploy/base-path): publish at `example.com/docs/`.
- [Metadata and SEO](/publish/metadata-and-seo): titles, share cards and sitemaps.

Source: https://nimbus-docs.com/deploy/other-hosts/index.mdx