I use surge.sh, pretty easy and comfortable to use.
Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
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Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#162hugo or jekyll static sites. tons of themes...really cool blogs. no setup. use github with a custom domain
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#163I 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 like your Travis CI setup, I may copy it myself. Here's the workflow I currently use if the OP wants something with less moving parts. I just use s3_website from the command line. It will even create the s3/cloudfront configuration completely automatically. gem install s3_website ; set up s3_website.yml and AWS environment variables s3_website cfg apply ; this creates and configures the S3 bucket and cloudfront con…
If you're just hosting a static blog website/personal site - is it really worth using Travis on it?
I've yet to use it on mine and curious if I should start essentially.
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#164I'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…
Hey Kyle what's the best way to contact you?
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#165I'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??
Geocities is owned by Yahoo. Unless Kyle worked there, there is no relation.
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#166I use a cheap $5/mo Digital Ocean droplet with nginx, Nikola [0], and letsencrypt for ssl. Works great and I can expand easily if I want to add php or other wsgi apps. [0] https://getnikola.com
Similarly, I set up two OVH Public Cloud 2GB instances $3.49 (4.49 CAD) with CloudFlare in front. Having two lets me set up master-master MySQL for Ghost and other play projects.
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#167I have a PC in my basement on a nice 150meg fiber connection. I have a dynamic DNS service and client set up, and ports forwarded. At this point, I can do whatever the hell I want (static or dynamic), as long as I don't transfer like 10TB a month.
I have Payara (java app server) running my blog down there, and HTTPS courtesy of Let's Encrypt. I looked into running a Open Street Maps server, but it was fairly hard (I might have been close to getting it running), and professional reasons for maybe playing around with it changed.
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#168I use GitHub pages with Cloudflare (free CDN + HTTPS) for simpler sites but I'm a fan of netlify.com right now. Setup is simple, atomic deploys are simple, rollbacks are simple, caching + cache invalidation + HTTPS is done for you and there's paid plans if you need passwords, form submissions and custom response headers. There's probably cheaper options compared to the paid plan at $9 a month but you have to ask your…
This is what I run a few of my sites off of right now, super simple. For other things I use Namecheap (shared) but have been looking into Digital Ocean or Linode.
I use Linode. Better network performance than DO, and cheaper.
This is what I got from a test I ran.
Download: 1880.39 Mbit/s
Upload: 443.29 Mbit/s
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#169I have a PC in my basement on a nice 150meg fiber connection. I have a dynamic DNS service and client set up, and ports forwarded. At this point, I can do whatever the hell I want (static or dynamic), as long as I don't transfer like 10TB a month. I have Payara (java app server) running my blog down there, and HTTPS courtesy of Let's Encrypt. I looked into running a Open Street Maps server, but it was fairly hard (I…
I wish more geographies had 150 megabit (or even better) symmetric residential service. I will never understand how residential service became asymmetric by default. At my address, the best upload speed I can get is ~5 Mbps, which is utterly embarrassing considering my first DSL connection, in 1999 or thereabouts, was ~1.5 Mbps symmetric. In 17 years, I have only approximately tripled my upload speed. (Frankly, even the download speed doesn't seem commensurate with 17 years of technological advance; such is the tragedy of popular "good enough" syndrome.)
In my opinion, asymmetric residential service is in large part responsible for the centralization of the Internet. I would have much liked the alternate history where residential service continued from 1999 onward supporting and embracing the notions of self-hosting and peer-to-peer communication. The resulting decentralized, federated Internet while no utopia in its own right, would be so much more appealing to my sensibilities.
Putting that wishful thinking aside, your setup sounds nice. Since I can't get that kind of bandwidth to my house, I had to lease a dedicated server at a data center.
Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?
#170Dropbox public folder is pretty useful.
Dropbox no longer supports HTML rendering/hosting for their free users.
Dropbox Pro and Business users have a grace period till September 1, 2017.