Ask HN: What web hosting do you use for your personal sites/blogs?

#1

Post by nthnclrk » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:09 AM UTC

Just looking for a simple host, with really great performance. As the title implies, it's for a simple static site/blog (likely using Jekyll).

I'm sceptical of the much hyped Media Temple offering, and definitely don't want to hand over cash to GoDaddy.

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#2

Post by nmcfarl » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:17 AM UTC

I use S3 directly (+ Route53) for my static sites, with EC2 micro instances for things that need a CPU. Previously I used Linode and was happy, but when I decided to cut administrative overhead, and go with just one vendor I went with amazon.

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#3

Post by hacknat » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:19 AM UTC

If you are using Wordpress or another PHP based CMS then NearlyFreeSpeech.Net can't be beat.

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#4

Post by miles » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:20 AM UTC

Rackspace Cloud Servers[1] (formerly Slicehost) with a basic Ubuntu install and nginx. I also use it for a simple static site and blog (still running Blosxom!). Has been rock solid for years.

EDIT: I second the NearlyFreeSpeech.Net recommendation if shared hosting is OK (as opposed to a VPS with static IP, etc). NFS has been very dependable in my experience.

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/

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#5

Post by michaelkscott » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:32 AM UTC

If it's static HTML, you can use Github Pages.

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#6

Post by hilti » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:58 AM UTC

All my static and newLisp based sites are hosted on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has enough power to handle blogs or small traffic sites. I use no-ip.org to get a static address for the Pi at home.

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#7

Post by hilti » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 6:59 AM UTC

hacknat wrote: post #3

If you are using Wordpress or another PHP based CMS then NearlyFreeSpeech.Net can't be beat.

That's true. And You'll love the good support.

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#8

Post by npguy » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:00 AM UTC

I use ASO, their customer support has been great in my experience

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#9

Post by natsu90 » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:20 AM UTC

I'm using Heroku free plan.

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#10

Post by devendramistri » Fri, Jan 11, 2013, 7:24 AM UTC

AppFog. This is free till 2GM RAM limit. I am running my Django site www.mistrics.com on it.