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

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Post by sangupta »

K0nserv wrote: post #68

I use Github to host the source for my blog/website which is open source. Jekyll for the building which happens on Travis CI. Deployment on S3 with cloudflare as a CDN for SSL and reduced bandwidth. I really like this setup. I wrote a guide called The One Cent Blog[0] a while back detailing how it's setup. Typical months the cost is around $0.01-$0.03. Becuase people usually ask why S3 over Github pages I'll answer i…

+1

For basic blogs/sites github pages are free and fast. For all custom static sites I run a local Jekyll setup with multiple plugins and push the _site folder to Github for free hosting.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

hashtagMERKY wrote: post #3

For static sites I used to use surge [0], but now I use Neltify [1] for my site [2], because it offers free SSL on your own domain, and continuous deployment from a GitHub or Gitlab repository. You can set your own build options, for example to build Jekyll. (I have no affiliation with Netlify I just think their service is neat.) [0] https://surge.sh/ [1] https://www.netlify.com/ [2] https://gilly.tk edit: formatting

I wanted to migrate to Netlify (I'm currently very happy with Gitlab pages), but I don't want to have to install all of node just to use their utility. What's wrong with static binaries, or at least Python?

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

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Post by duggan »

Github Pages with CNAME file, CircleCI, Cloudflare. Free, CDN, and SSL hosted if it's all open source.

No how-to, but it's all open source here https://github.com/barricadeio/docs

Most awkward part was figuring out the voodoo required to get Hugo and Middleman working (lots of trial and error).

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

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Post by agrajag »

bkgunby wrote: post #75
gtsteve wrote: post #17

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…

It's worth noting that SSL only works between the browser and Cloudfront servers. Last time I checked there wasn't an option to use SSL with s3. It's not a deal breaker, but it was enough to make me look for alternatives.

You can use SSL with S3 as the backend, you just have to set the distribution origin to s3.amazonaws.com/bucket-name/

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

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Post by _fool »

ekiara wrote: post #8
hashtagMERKY wrote: post #3

For static sites I used to use surge [0], but now I use Neltify [1] for my site [2], because it offers free SSL on your own domain, and continuous deployment from a GitHub or Gitlab repository. You can set your own build options, for example to build Jekyll. (I have no affiliation with Netlify I just think their service is neat.) [0] https://surge.sh/ [1] https://www.netlify.com/ [2] https://gilly.tk edit: formatting

netlify looks great, and the free tier covers probably 90% of what all SMEs need. I'm curious, where are the sites actually hosted? Does netlify provide the actual hosting or they allow you to setup deployment to a VPS? Also if netlify does the hosting, how good is their uptime/availability?

I work for Netlify.

We host the sites on our CDN, which has more than a dozen points of presence around the world. You can either let us build your site using anything you can get working on linux (see https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/10/18/how-our-build-bots-b... for details) or build it yourself and ship the finished product to us. Nothing "runs" on our side after build, so there are no servers/VPS's which you can configure in the equation as far as hosting is concerned. We let you do a few things that you used to do with htaccess files (redirects are free; custom headers including basic auth are a paid feature)

You can check out our list of past incidents on our status page to gauge uptime for yourself: http://netlifystatus.com/

Since we use redundant DNS (NS1 + self-hosted), and use dynamic DNS response based on both location the query comes from cross product which CDN nodes are responding, we can (and occasionally do) remove, rebuild, or add CDN nodes without affecting our overall service. Since we use multiple network providers (for instance we use AWS, but we also use 3 other services), downtime at any one of our providers won't introduce any substantial problems in our network.

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

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Post by bkgunby »

agrajag wrote: post #105
bkgunby wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth noting that SSL only works between the browser and Cloudfront servers. Last time I checked there wasn't an option to use SSL with s3. It's not a deal breaker, but it was enough to make me look for alternatives.

You can use SSL with S3 as the backend, you just have to set the distribution origin to s3.amazonaws.com/bucket-name/

Does that work with s3 static websites though? I recall that a different endpoint was needed, and it's only http.

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

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Post by n3bu »

thunfisch wrote: post #37

Uberspace.de Shell Access, pretty much every common language available, service running, databases, mail, etc.. No bullshit hosting in germany, Pay what you want (1€/month minimum). Absolute best, I'm hosting about 25 projects with them for various bands, etc. and haven't had any problems whatsoever.

+1 for uberspace.de

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

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Post by TheArcane »

K0nserv wrote: post #68

I use Github to host the source for my blog/website which is open source. Jekyll for the building which happens on Travis CI. Deployment on S3 with cloudflare as a CDN for SSL and reduced bandwidth. I really like this setup. I wrote a guide called The One Cent Blog[0] a while back detailing how it's setup. Typical months the cost is around $0.01-$0.03. Becuase people usually ask why S3 over Github pages I'll answer i…

I don't understand why you need the S3 if you're already hosting it on github pages.
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