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Re: Ask HN: Best host for a one-page website?

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Post by g4k »

VoxPelli wrote: post #27

My impression: Free hosting: https://pages.github.com/ – currently using for a couple of sites and it works very Paid hosting: https://divshot.com/ – thinking of using for some sites – mainly because I can get https on a custom domain there, which I can't at GitHub Pages

Github pages supports SSL on custom domains through Cloudflare with full SSL.

Re: Ask HN: Best host for a one-page website?

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Post by capsule_toy »

sinak wrote: post #2

Github pages is a great way to go, you basically push to a branch called "gh-pages" and a file in the root called CNAME with the domain and you're done. https://pages.github.com/

I'm piggybacking off your comment, but has no one else had issues with github pages and custom domain names? I put up a static site on github pages and checked in a couple months later (it was a personal site that wasn't terribly important) only to find that it was down. No changes in the source or configuration. I moved the page pretty much immediately because I couldn't be bothered to figure out what happened.

Re: Ask HN: Best host for a one-page website?

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Post by threatofrain »

phliver wrote: post #5

I haven't used this service in a VERY long time, but you can give NearlyFreeSpeech.NET a shot. They offer free hosting. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net

I'm not sure they offer free hosting, at least not anywhere obvious on their website. But they do offer a "pay what you use" model.

Re: Ask HN: Best host for a one-page website?

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Post by 27182818284 »

mjklin wrote: post #32
iamben wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded. Love NFS - happily coped with HN spikes as well, and cheap as chips, especially for static content.

I tried it a few years ago, and I had to use a specialized ftp program to upload files. Do they have anything web-based now, like Cpanel?

Along with the others, I'm really confused by this. Not only do I just use regular programs, I even use makefiles to deploy on some sites.

I've never seen the need of a "specialized" program.

Re: Ask HN: Best host for a one-page website?

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Post by ahazred8ta »

rolandukor wrote: post #25
krat0sprakhar wrote: post #18

Checkout http://surge.sh . Free, production grade CDN, easy-peasy CLI integration, one command deploys.

Looks very interesting. How come its free?

TLDR they have a Freemium business model http://surge.sh/help/why-is-surge-free
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