OVH has a 10MB storage free plan where you can host a landing pages, images and such.
Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can get cheaper domains, i.e. Porkbun.com is running a 3 per user $4.15 for .com (just looked, I'm happy with them)
I had no idea about Porkbun.com. Thanks for that. Some domains I have been looking for seems cheaper than usual.
I moved all (30+) of my domains to Porkbun a couple years ago, and have referred all of my friends there since. Everyone has been really happy with their service.
They're just a small team of good people in Portland Oregon running an efficient smart operation. This is their parent company: https://toplevel.design/
Whenever I've had a customer service question, they reply immediately and helpfully.
I try to support businesses like this whenever possible.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#33For hosting: Many options. HelioHost[0] is worth mentioning, free 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; Vercel,Git(Lab/Hub) Pages ect
For domains: Take a couple hours to find the cheapest ones available but you can get a free sub-domain as-well which is the cheapest available. I do NOT recommend Freenom ones users always had issues with them. However I do recommend eu.org[1]. You can get a sub domain like (4-letters and more).eu.org or anything.(on of their subdomains).eu.org. For example I have two: asvvvad.eu.org and vvv.int.eu.org.
For DNS forwarding (A/AAAA/CNAME/TXT records ect): I started with Namecheaps FreeDNS but switched recently to 1984hosting.com's free DNS service I used the former for quite a while and didn't have many problems with it just set it up and forgot about it but using 1984hosting's feels better and easier specially the interface
1984hosting also have a hosting plan that include free .com domain. It only have yearly payments which is $109 for a year and $129 for renewal which is less than $10 a month. That's pretty cheap for an unlimited hosting with a .com domain included I guess
[0]: https://www.heliohost.org/ [1]: https://nic.eu.org/ [2]: https://1984hosting.com/buy/hosting/
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#34Github + Tiddlywiki. That's what I do for https://philosopher.life/. It's free (unless you rent a domain name), flexible, and easy to distribute over many kinds of channels.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#35Do you have an old computer at home, and an internet connection? You can always host it yourself. The electricity used may not be cheaper than paying someone else a few bucks to host it from their data center.
I don't think this would work. How would one get around the ISP's NAT to expose your address to the wider internet? At least, without potentially paying the ISP extra or going through a (relatively) lot of trouble to monitor/manage where your DNS is pointing. If I am way off base on this, please elucidate.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#36Do you have an old computer at home, and an internet connection? You can always host it yourself. The electricity used may not be cheaper than paying someone else a few bucks to host it from their data center.
I don't think this would work. How would one get around the ISP's NAT to expose your address to the wider internet? At least, without potentially paying the ISP extra or going through a (relatively) lot of trouble to monitor/manage where your DNS is pointing. If I am way off base on this, please elucidate.
Not all ISPs have NATs, I guess.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#37Github + Tiddlywiki. That's what I do for https://philosopher.life/ . It's free (unless you rent a domain name), flexible, and easy to distribute over many kinds of channels.
What is your site about? I've seen it four times this week, but I haven't really figured out why it's popular.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#38Do you have an old computer at home, and an internet connection? You can always host it yourself. The electricity used may not be cheaper than paying someone else a few bucks to host it from their data center.
I don't think this would work. How would one get around the ISP's NAT to expose your address to the wider internet? At least, without potentially paying the ISP extra or going through a (relatively) lot of trouble to monitor/manage where your DNS is pointing. If I am way off base on this, please elucidate.
Dynamic DNS has been a thing for ages and it is trivial to PAT on most any firewall you may have hooked up to a modem in bridge mode.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#39I'm building a site generator for this very purpose (apologies for the shameless self promotion)....
https://findingmyhtmlgoddess.com
git: https://github.com/jonascript/htmlgoddess
It generates static HTML pages that are as simple as can be. If you setup a git account, it will cover the hosting for free. A domain typically costs $12 a year.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can get cheaper domains, i.e. Porkbun.com is running a 3 per user $4.15 for .com (just looked, I'm happy with them)
I had no idea about Porkbun.com. Thanks for that. Some domains I have been looking for seems cheaper than usual.
Porkbun isn't just the cheapest registrar most of the time, they are legit and very trustworthy. Moved most of my domains a couple of years ago and it just works.
If you are looking for domain deals, domcomp.com/ is invaluable.