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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 kyledrake »

I'm biased, but Neocities (https://neocities.org) can do all of these things and is a great choice for static web hosting. We run a global anycast CDN with instant cache purging, custom domains with Let's Encrypt SSL, high availability architecture, and all the rest. We haven't had a full site hosting outage in years.

We include 10GB storage 2TB BW for free (more of both included soon) for $5/mo, which would cost over $180/mo at AWS with S3. Cloud providers really upcharge on bandwidth big time. Really that 2TB is just a soft cap just to make sure nobody tries to run the New York Times from a $5 hosting plan. Many people go over it and it's not a problem.

The one thing we don't do well is show how good we are for pro hosting as well as people learning HTML and having fun. I need to work on that.

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

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Post by colinbartlett »

philsnow wrote: post #111
nitrogen wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What makes you think that when cloudfront requests objects internally from s3, it's using http? It could just as easily be connecting with s2n and authenticating both endpoints of the connection.

This article[1] states the following, though it doesn't cite any specific source:

> CloudFront will use encryption when retrieving data from its storage service S3 (Simple Storage Service), so the content is protected all the way from where it is stored to the user's computer, according to Amazon.

1. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2518747/data-center/use...

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

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Post by jrheard »

0xCMP wrote: post #84
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…

However, you can simplify this on your computer like I do by having a repo with your source, disabling jekyll on github, and pushing the results to the user.github.io repo so that github acts like s3 and you get a $0.00 blog. Nice thing for S3 though is you could cloudfront it if you wanted to for some reason. And it's in your control.

Yeah, I do this too - https://github.com/jrheard/blog is my source, https://github.com/jrheard/jrheard.github.io is the generated static site. This allows me to use whatever Jekyll plugins I want.

I literally wholesale copy-pasted the Rakefile in http://ixti.net/software/2013/01/28/using-jekyll-plugins-on-... in order to set this up, it was very easy thanks to that great article - all you have to do is run `rake publish` at the command line, and your site builds locally and the finished product is deployed to your github pages repo.

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

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Post by gcp »

iUsedToCode wrote: post #137
gcp wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their pricing looks insane? Like an order of magnitude less than DO, OVH, ... Edit: Looks like it's because they're using Atom and ARM based servers.

What's that mean for the common folk? Are they slower?

Yes. Slow CPUs.

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

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Post by atmosx »

nodejs-news wrote: post #45

I'm a great self-hosting fan, behind my DSL connection using 2 x RaspberryPI. I have 3 static web sites, 2 with Jekyll, 1 with Hugo, with great perf : checkout webpagetest -> https://www.webpagetest.org/result/161123_0R_8RDY/ and feel free to check my 3 web sites: - http://www.it-wars.com - http://www.louer-hendaye.com - http://www.nodejs-news.com Init : 2 RaspberryPi + electric plugs : 2x 30$ + 2 x6$ Monthly bill: e…

You have a static IP?

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

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Post by pesfandiar »

newscracker wrote: post #136

Nearly Free Speech (nearlyfreespeech.net aka NFSN). [1] I'd strongly recommend you try it, without purchasing a domain, and see for yourself how far the initial trial takes you (you get a 25 cent credit when you create an account). Even if you decide to try something else, it's worth your time to read NFSN's FAQ [2] to know more about the service and policies. It's quite impressive. Advantages: 1. Excluding domain co…

I used to host with them. It's very cheap, but you can't have any expectation of high uptime.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

newscracker wrote: post #136

Nearly Free Speech (nearlyfreespeech.net aka NFSN). [1] I'd strongly recommend you try it, without purchasing a domain, and see for yourself how far the initial trial takes you (you get a 25 cent credit when you create an account). Even if you decide to try something else, it's worth your time to read NFSN's FAQ [2] to know more about the service and policies. It's quite impressive. Advantages: 1. Excluding domain co…

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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 jordanlev »

If you want PHP and FTP, I've been successfully using webfaction " rel="nofollow">https://www.webfaction.com/> for years now (they're a developer-friendly shared host). $10/month. Their setup is a little weird to figure out at first (they add an extra layer of indirection between domain names and applications), but once you get it it makes it very easy to set up new sites.

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

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Post by sogen »

kyledrake wrote: post #141

I'm biased, but Neocities ( https://neocities.org ) can do all of these things and is a great choice for static web hosting. We run a global anycast CDN with instant cache purging, custom domains with Let's Encrypt SSL, high availability architecture, and all the rest. We haven't had a full site hosting outage in years. We include 10GB storage 2TB BW for free (more of both included soon) for $5/mo, which would cost o…

You should give a link to custom domains in the front page, took me a while to find you offer that. Btw are you related to Geocities??
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