Depends really. Perhaps https://carrd.co will cover your requirements.
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#12GitHub pages / GitLab pages. I prefer the latter since the CI for pages is less magical and more flexible as a result - you aren't limited to what they support, and they don't claim a 100GB* traffic limit (just fair use). Couple with a cheap .com and free Cloudflare for DNS and caching.
* Corrected mistake, was 10GB
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#13I'd recommend Hugo or similar plus netlify. It's incredibly easy to get a static (or mostly static) page up and available. Use someone else's template, then you can deal with everything with drag & drop if you want.
It's all also free unless you want more features, and you can easily take it and host elsewhere (like S3).
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#14GitHub pages / GitLab pages. I prefer the latter since the CI for pages is less magical and more flexible as a result - you aren't limited to what they support, and they don't claim a 100GB* traffic limit (just fair use). Couple with a cheap .com and free Cloudflare for DNS and caching. * Corrected mistake, was 10GB
This is my entire CI yaml, which copies static HTML and other files (I don't use any static site generator, just plain HTML & CSS) and flushes the Cloudflare cache:
stages:
- deploy
- clear-cache
pages:
stage: deploy
script:
- mkdir .public
- cp -r * .public
- mv .public public
artifacts:
paths:
- public
only:
- master
clear-cache:
stage: clear-cache
script:
- curl -X DELETE "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$CF_ZONE_ID/purge_cache" -H "X-Auth-Key:$CF_AUTH_KEY" -H "X-Auth-Email:$CF_AUTH_EMAIL" -H "Content-Type:application/json" --data '{"purge_everything":true}'
only:
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#15Notion can be used to create simple websites. You can then find an online tutorial to use Notion with a custom domain. Other than the cost of the domain, this method is entirely free.
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#16Notion
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#17GitHub pages / GitLab pages. I prefer the latter since the CI for pages is less magical and more flexible as a result - you aren't limited to what they support, and they don't claim a 100GB* traffic limit (just fair use). Couple with a cheap .com and free Cloudflare for DNS and caching. * Corrected mistake, was 10GB
GitHub pages soft bandwidth limit is 100GB/mo (https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...)
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#18Notion. Make a page in markdown and share it with a public link. Free for personal use.
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#19Hugo + Gitlab CI/CD to push in to Google Firebase. I use namesilo for domain hosting at $12 / yr. I'm well under the free quota offered by GCP
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#20In addition to the Gitlab/Github options, AWS S3 by itself is fairly decent and a few pennies. You can front it by cloudfront for more money if you need a global CDN.
There's also NearlyFreeSpeech[^1] which is very cheap and very free speech oriented.