Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

Host frontend on s3, use route53 to connect domain, connect form to AWS lambda function. Should be less than $2 a month.

For static content : Github Pages [Free]

For email : Mailchimp [Free tier]

Edit : A quick Google search, showed that someone was nice enough to make a working example http://landing.adrienjoly.com/

My recommendations currently for this sort of thing come down to two.:

Amazon Lightsail https://amazonlightsail.com/

Nearly Free Speech https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

There's also the s3 / Route53 / AWS Lambda solution mentioned by "ryptophan" which is inexpensive but a bit more complex.

There's also Google Cloud Platform https://cloud.google.com/products/ which could, especially via https://console.cloud.google.com/launcher give you for example click-to-launch phpList or LetsChat up through SuiteCRM or Mautic and on to Redis, Cassandra, or a whole OS.

There's really more than one axis of "simple". Do you want to manage a single app? Do you want a simple way to launch a whole cluster of servers? Do you want a full OS VPS with a single app on it to start?

I have always been parsimonious when it comes to digital things. Being good with tech is one good reason for this. But lately, I have come to realise that no matter how technically-able I am, doing something programmatically expends mental resources that could have been used elsewhere. Even when I consider myself decent with HTML/CSS, I would near more than a day to perfect a website, resolving quirky CSS bugs, trying to find good stock images, perfecting positioning, margins and what not.

Considering that LeadPages would only cost $25 / month, even if my landing page runs for three months, $75 is a meagre expense for the hours it'll save me in building and mantaining a simple web page, and not to say about the excellent integrations it has. More often than not, I have counted a lot on my technical skills only to repent in wasted hours and effort.

I use instapage.com. They are the least expensive out of the landing page builder solutions with a/b testing out there.

Wix is a way cheaper option.

The cheapest option is probably wordpress. You can buy landing page theme for wordpress on themeforest.net.

Good luck.