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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 bkgunby »

gtsteve wrote: post #213
bkgunby wrote: post #108

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

The method I described doesn't require you to use a S3 static website. We don't have that option enabled, so the bucket name isn't mysite.com, it's "mysite-html", and the S3 website hosting is not enabled. CloudFront has its own IAM user that is permitted to access the contents of the bucket, which means that it has to use the API. I don't think it's even possible to access the S3 API without using HTTPS. Therefore I…

Awesome! I'm new to AWS, and when I tried to setup a static website using cloudfront + s3, I was only aware of the static website option on s3. This is what the docs uses, and it led me to the wrong path it seems! Thanks

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Post by sogen »

kyledrake wrote: post #193
sogen wrote: post #150

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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??

No relation (except for the site I once had on there). Sadly, Geocities is long gone. My attempts to acquire the domain name and relaunch the site (at a bare minimum to restore the old sites to their proper location) have not been successful.

Good idea focusing on that niche. It'd be cool to see geocities live again!

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Post by patrickdavey »

user5994461 wrote: post #46
NicoJuicy wrote: post #35

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Zero maintenance on WordPress? What do you do? I have several updates all the time + themes and plugins. I do like WordPress though

Hosted by wordpress.com of course. Self hosting wordpress is a nightmare. I wouldn't wish that to my worst enemy.

Why do you say "self hosting wordpress is a nightmare" ? I've been doing that for 12 years and have had no worries at all. Admittedly it's only a very low trafficked site, but still, curious.

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Post by throwaway2016a »

DocG wrote: post #211
throwaway2016a wrote: post #128

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> 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…

You are correct. They are also huge ecommerce site and book store. I understood previous question as "What CMS amazon is offering for clients in website hosting", to where I think my answer still stands.

> They are also huge eCommerce site and book store.

That is a complete miss-categorization. Amazon AWS is a single business unit with EC2 being a single product inside of it. When people say Amazon Web Services it very clearly means more than just EC2.

To compare EC2 to SQS (simple queuing service) and saying they are different is the same as comparing Amazon Book sales to Amazon Clothing Sales. It is a distinction that not many people would make.

Actually in a way it is more like saying that Amazon Selling the Twilight novels is different than Amazon selling college textbooks.

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Post by emson »

I have been trying to find the perfect static site hosting solution - although a little bit engaging AWS offers the best flexibility and cost (if you use the free tier). Anyway I created a course on how to do it all: https://www.udemy.com/go-landing-pages/?couponCode=BLACK10

Anyway good luck.

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Post by keehun »

_fool wrote: post #121
prh8 wrote: post #115

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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.

There are a few: https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/08/02/migrate-github-pages... https://vgmoose.com/blog/moving-from-github-pages-to-netlify...

It's stupidly easy I wondered why it wasn't any more popular...

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Post by WhiteOwlLion »

kyledrake wrote: post #196
vanderZwan wrote: post #16

I have a soft spot for Neocities, which is trying to be everything we loved about Geocities, but for a modern age: https://neocities.org/ ZERO ADVERTISEMENTS , even for the free plan. Supports only static hosting, is free for 100mb websites with bandwidth of 50GB per month, or five dollars per month for 10,000mb with 2TB and a number of other extra features. EDIT: As mentioned by detaro, custom domain only supported…

Thanks for the warm words! > ZERO ADVERTISEMENTS, even for the free plan. Supports only static hosting, is free for 100mb websites with bandwidth of 50GB per month, or five dollars per month for 10,000mb with 2TB and a number of other extra features Haven't announced yet, but these numbers are all increasing soon. Well, except for the advertising one. I'm literally in the datacenter right now working on it.

Be nice if neocities support Lektor (https://www.getlektor.com/), or some sort of web gui static publishing framework. Something easy like WordPress, but not so blog focused. I'd do it myself if I had macOS, but haven't got it setup for Windows yet.

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Post by karmakaze »

icpmacdo wrote: post #188
karmakaze wrote: post #166

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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.

Your paying in CAD so assuming your in canada how do you find OVH, is there any north American severs? If not how is connection time to the website and general experiences with it? Cheers.

I haven't been using their 'Public Cloud' VMs very long so don't really have a strong opinion, so far it's seemed about as quick or sometimes quicker than DO. Too soon to speak for reliability. In the past, I've used their bare metal hosting which is very inexpensive (ranging from $90/mo - $1000 for 32G - 512GB), but you have to know what you're getting. Check the h/w they give you and if you find any issues with it, they'll replace it, but only if you notice and request it. The servers I've used were in Montreal. Thought I'd heard that they were planning on a datacentre in US East.
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