# Static sites

A static site shows new articles by rebuilding. You need no endpoint of your own: most hosts that build from a repository offer a **deploy hook**, a URL that starts a build when it receives a `POST`.

1. Create a deploy hook in your host's build settings. Cloudflare Pages, Vercel, and Netlify all offer one (Netlify calls it a build hook).
2. Paste its URL into **Delivery** → **Webhook**.
3. Select **Send test event**. The delivery shows as delivered, and your host starts a build.

SEO for SaaS sends a `POST` when an article is published, changed, or unpublished. Your host ignores the request body and rebuilds, and the build reads the current articles from the API. The test event starts a build too: it's a real delivery.

Build your sitemap from [the sitemap endpoint](/docs/api/sitemap) and the same rebuild keeps its dates right: an article's `lastmod` moves when the article did, not every time the site is built.

Deploy hooks don't verify signatures, so treat their URLs as secrets: anyone holding one can start a build.