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Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by mgz » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:07 AM UTC

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by JonnieCache » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:07 AM UTC

aeden wrote: post #5

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #2

s3 / cloudfront

Are there any tools that you recommend that make it super easy to get a static site up and running on S3 and Cloudfront?

They have excellent web-based control panels. I doubt you could make it significantly easier really.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by olegp » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:11 AM UTC

If you want to have the option of doing dynamic stuff later, you should try Akshell (http://www.akshell.com). It's really good for static sites too though, since the newly added Git support allows you to deploy with a git pull from a remote repo, giving you revision control and all the goodness that comes with it.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by nico_h » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:20 AM UTC

mhiceoin wrote: post #8

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ Excellent Pay as you go hosting with specific plans for static only content.

I second that. With no traffic, 10$ lasted me 4 years. They have decreasing cost per GB of bandwidth too.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by bdr » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:20 AM UTC

AppEngine would probably be free and is reliable.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by thethimble » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:22 AM UTC

I've been using Dreamhost for my static (and an initial version of my Django site) for a few months now. I've been happy with their uptime and support.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by hardik988 » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:24 AM UTC

Github Pages is a great choice for hosting static files IMO. However I'm not sure if you can host gh-pages on a private repository or not.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by patio11 » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:27 AM UTC

I ran BCC off of GoDaddy's $4 a month Linux hosting for nearly 2 years and only had a problem once.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by bigiain » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:28 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #6

bigiain wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what I'd suggest too, with the proviso that the most likely "single point of failure" moves from being some technical decision you make to being the credit card it's paid for with. At ~3c or 7c/month it becomes easy to forget you need to update the expiry date every 3 years...

The credit card I used for a development account expired in January, and Amazon sent me email reminders. They also continued to charge the (expired) card. This suggests to me that card expiry is not a likely failure mode.

No no, that's _exactly_ the failure mode to keep an eye out for.

I've seen AWS not actually bill me, and just send email accounts, for months and months. It's not worth their time billing a few cents or even a few dollars a month, so by the time an account "goes wrong" it can have been half a year or more since your card got re-issued, and you've forgotten you need to update Amazon for anything.

(it's much less of an issue if you're piggybacking your AWS stuff on a regularly used Amazon account/creditcard, but if you set this up as a one-off for a tiny S3/CloudFront "web hosting" setup, it could easily bite you on the ass in a few years time...)

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

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Post by fleitz » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 8:29 AM UTC

I'd definitely recommend dreamhost, very reasonable, great one click installers for things like wordpress. also they support rails/django. Something like $8/month.