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With Netlify, you get all those things with custom SSL. In fact, you don't even need your own cert as Netlify interfaces with Let's Encrypt on its own to provide a custom certificate. It also lets you interface with Gitlabs (which has its own Github pages competitor) which provides you with free private repos. I think it's a much superior setup than Github.
Are there instructions about hooking up Netlify with GL pages? I'm currently using Cloudflare w/ my Github pages blog, but it was a bit tricky to set up and I'm considering redoing my blog anyways.
Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
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#122I've been using Jekyll + Gitlab + S3 + Cloudfront (+ lambda).
This costs me just over 50 cents a month, almost all of which is the Route53/DNS costs.
- Gitlab stores the source and GitlabCI builds the site.
- Lambda triggers the build on a schedule.
- GitlabCI pushes the site to S3 (using Gitlab ENV VARS!).
- CloudFront as the CDN, also provides free SSL.Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#123I use linuxpl.com (https://linuxpl.com/Hosting-Serwery-wirtualne) which is ~ 12 usd / year (so just $1/ month).
Comes with 2 GB of space and 50 gb bandwidth per month.
SSH access, shared hosting (so pretty powerful CPU/ram there). Currently i have about 700 daily unique visitors and growing. Used to deploy custom sites, now i use mostly wordpress. Also, i use it for my git remote repos.
Great service. Been using if for years, awesome quality for the money.
Lately had some issues but the support is helpful and they fixed whatever i wanted, enabling SSI, fixing response headers, etc. Never had to wait for a reply longer than 6 hours (usually it's just minutes, really). As a bonus, admin staff is available through odlschool IM app - Gadu-Gadu. And PHP 7 is available and easy to switch to.
The site's in polish, which sucks for you guys, but it's by far the cheapest and best solution i have for low cost hosting. I'm a happy customer.
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#124I use github to host the source code for my static Jekyll site, but since github doesn't support HTTPS on custom domains, I use Netlify as a CDN. Netlify automatically hooks me up with an A+ rated Let's Encrypt cert setup. So my domain points at Netlify, which pulls the site from github. The total cost of this setup is only the yearly cost of the domain, which you can eliminate too if you use a sub-domain on netlify.
Does the free Netlify plan provide a cert?
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#125I prefer full control. I have a 10$ a month Digitalocean VPS with Nginx, PHP and whatever I want.
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#126I like Zeit now, aerobatic.com and surge.sh
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If the origin is an S3 static website, the link is unencrypted but should run over Amazon's own network. Since Amazon has your S3 and CloudFront data anyway, assuming all CF endpoints are under Amazon's control, you don't lose much by having the S3 origin load over http.
That's just naive with the information we have today. Google thought this too, and the NSA happily used that to eavesdrop.
Eavesdropping on the connection between CF and S3 doesn't say too much about a public static website, though. If you're serving private data, use an S3 bucket directly instead of the S3 static website hosting HTTP server.
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If I may ask a simple question which reveals my ignorance about AWS and anything too technical, but what is the actual CMS being used for a website hosted on Amazon? Take a simple website with text and images that you want to update via an easy to use CMS, what is the AWS service that is the CMS seen by a user looking after the website? Does one exist or is it a matter of needing to make such a CMS? Edit: thanks for…
Amazon offers basically hardware. You rent a piece of server resourses. What operating system, what CMS you use is up to you, but prepeared to install and configure everything. But, they also offer plenty of free (and good) "ready made and pre configured" packages for people to use (for exampe wordpress, bitbucket etc.). You can search them here https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/
> Amazon offers basically hardware.
AWS is way more than hardware.
Lambda - on demand code execution
Route53 - DNS and domain registration
S3 - File storage with redundancy and an HTTP interface
RDS - Managed relational databases
DynamoDB - NoSQL key/value store with indexing and scanning
SQS - Job queue-ing without needing to manage servers
SES - Email service with the ability to both send and receive email and also trigger a Lambda function when email is received
SNS - Fan out notifications with multiple destinations (iOS, Android, Email, SMS, webhook, etc)
IAM KMS - Manage your encryption keys
EC2 - Ok, this one actually is hardware
Git hosting, docker file hosting. Etc...
That is just off the top of my head. However, if you want to avoid vendor lock-in, then yes, it is just hardware.
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#129RamNode: 128MB RAM 15GB storage, $15/year. Cheapest I have found yet for a tiny VPS. Perfect for static pages, but a little bit of PHP might be fine.
RamNode is awesome! I've been a customer for years. They often have promo codes on LowEndBox.
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#130www.nearlyfreespeech.net is cheap (really cheap, hence the name) and reliable - they've been around since 2002, and I've used them since 2008.
IIRC I think the name is because they allow a lot of content that other hosts may shy away from.
It's both: "For everyone to have free speech, they need to be able to afford it."