Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by rntz » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:45 AM UTC

www.nearlyfreespeech.net is cheap (really cheap, hence the name) and reliable - they've been around since 2002, and I've used them since 2008.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by imaginenore » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:46 AM UTC

Look for deals on LowEndBox, there are some amazing ones.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by cklar » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:46 AM UTC

For static sites I use firebase hosting, quite simple to use and it includes a free SSL certificate https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by antihero » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:47 AM UTC

I think I'd go with DigitalOcean $5/mo, nginx, a static site generator (there's so many), and LetsEncrypt (for SSL).

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by anacleto » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:49 AM UTC

AWS S3.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by vanderZwan » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:49 AM UTC

I have a soft spot for Neocities, which is trying to be everything we loved about Geocities, but for a modern age:

https://neocities.org/

ZERO ADVERTISEMENTS, even for the free plan. Supports only static hosting, is free for 100mb websites with bandwidth of 50GB per month, or five dollars per month for 10,000mb with 2TB and a number of other extra features.

EDIT: As mentioned by detaro, custom domain only supported in the paid plan, see https://neocities.org/supporter

Works really well with creative coding frameworks like p5js or Twine, for fun, fast little sketches you just want to thrown online and share with others:

http://p5js.org/

http://twinery.org/

Also, they really care about resurrecting the ideals of the old internet:

https://blog.neocities.org/its-time-for-the-permanent-web.ht...

https://blog.neocities.org/default-ssl.html

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by gtsteve » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:51 AM UTC

I use AWS S3, which I put behind a Cloudfront distribution. It's quick to set up, and there are no servers to keep up to date and patched. You also get free SSL for your Cloudfront distribution via AWS certificate manager. For stuff like Contact Us forms, I use AWS Lambda to post the data into my company's CMS. We've had this setup for about a year now and it works quite well.

The cost is almost nothing but we don't have a high traffic website. If you started getting billions of hits from expensive Cloudfront regions such as Australia or India, you might consider something else.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by eswat » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:52 AM UTC

GitHub Pages or Firebase.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by reimertz » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:52 AM UTC

Buetol wrote: post #9

ekiara wrote: post #5

Github Pages does pretty much everything you've listed. Also Github Pages explicity allows companies to setup and host their corporate websites on there. PROS: It is free, always available, and the deploy is easy once you get the hang of git.

One big inconvenient is that they don't support HTTPS for custom domains

Which you can solve with cloudflare for free.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by kumaranvpl » Wed, Nov 23, 2016, 11:53 AM UTC

How about github.io. Github pages allows us to host our custom domains too