Digital Ocean App Platform gives 3 free static sites.
Note the 1G transfer limit per site for free tier:
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
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#202https://render.com (lead by early Stripe infra employee!)
Yeah loving their setup. Very Heroku-like. Free for static hosts and almost as cheap as Digital Ocean for servers
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#203I built my site with Vuepress, and it auto-deploys to Netlify once merged to master. PRs also have preview builds, and their builds are fast. Very easy setup, and free.
Details here: https://fotijr.com/blog/2020/how-its-made/
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#204Speaking of AWS, I recently deployed a gatsby web site with AWS Amplify. It links to your git repo and will automatically deploy when you merge to master/main. You can also deploy branches you want to test out. As this was my second website I have ever deployed, I was amazed at how easy it was to setup.
Yep - we recently launched a couple of react sites on amplify and have found it super easy for our team to adopt. Hooked up to gitlab in a few seconds, added custom domain easily (automatically updated route53 for us), each PR gets its own deployment behind a password for testing, and develop and master are updated automatically on merge.
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#205I did something similar for a kids coding camp in Bulgaria. It requires 0 technical knowledge, no registration and no captchas, but it is maybe a bit too tailored for their use case: https://bin.gamejs.online
I actually started it using myself, because it is so nice to just zip a folder and get it online in ~10 seconds.
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#206I've tried Github pages, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages. Moved last night to the latter. Github pages is fine, but the extra gh-pages branch is kind of annoying. It's fairly clear (for obvious reasons) that they mainly think about Jekyll users, though I had a Hugo blog there for a while. Netlify sounds great, but in practice I ran into an annoying issue that I couldn't resolve where I had to rerun every automatic buil…
gitlab pages is better imo. You can use the CI to run any code you want to build the static files.
> You can use the CI to run any code you want to build the static files.
That is Netlify and Cloudflare Pages' defining feature, and GitHub has had that for a few years now.
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#207It seems that no one mentioned SourceForge so far. I have used it for over a decade. You rsync your html to their htdocs and that is it.
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#208You can use the Azure blob storage for static websites. Costs maybe 1 or 2 cents. I think you can even hang the free Azure CDN in front of it.
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#209I've tried Github pages, Netlify, and Cloudflare Pages. Moved last night to the latter. Github pages is fine, but the extra gh-pages branch is kind of annoying. It's fairly clear (for obvious reasons) that they mainly think about Jekyll users, though I had a Hugo blog there for a while. Netlify sounds great, but in practice I ran into an annoying issue that I couldn't resolve where I had to rerun every automatic buil…
> Github pages is fine, but the extra gh-pages branch is kind of annoying.
You can configure github projects to source from a different branch (including your main/master branch if you check in build artifacts directly)
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
An S3 bucket is intended as storage, not retrieval. Downloading from S3 means grabbing shards. You should put a proper CDN, like CloudFront or Cloudflare, in front.
Why, if his monthly bill is 83 cents, and he values his time? Does not using a CDN impact performance in a crippling way that neither me nor the poster you're replying to understands?
It takes like 30 seconds to point a Cloudfront distribution at an S3 bucket. Maybe a couple minutes more to set up the domain.