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Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

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I use https://nearlyfreespeech.net for my static site. It isn't free -- it is pretty cheap -- but it has a lot going for it. It requires no custom tooling -- I upload via rsync. This makes it trivial to migrate to a new provider if necessary. I develop my site locally, then rsync it up. I have a custom domain pointed at the site, and also a custom .htaccess, so I have a good amount of control over the site. I do thin…

I have used nfshost for hosting multiple sites for over a decade. They're a fantastic service that's simple, secure, and provides great, fast support. They recently published this blog post: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2021/01/19/free-speech-in-... After reading this, I made the decision to move my hosting elsewhere. I have never hosted content that is even remotely political, and have no intention to do so. I…

Your comment is exceedingly political. It’s unfortunate you mistakenly feel you are politically neutral and that you represent “actual” free speech, whereas companies who don’t choose to render services to insurrection-plotting fascists and racists apparently only practice “convenient” free speech.

I hope you can step back and evaluate the mistake in your perspective. Number one, you are demonstrating that you care more for politics than for free speech (let alone the fact that your viewpoint literally leads to people being harmed in preventable ways where the prevention methods don’t threaten free speech). Number two, you are trying to define the conversation in a way where you are neutral politically and merely hold up an ideal principle, but that’s very clearly false to huge degree and you’re not admitting the political bias and blinders you are yourself bringing into it.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

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post #280
post #36

Check out Vercel! [1] You can deploy for free, with a single command, in a few minutes. Disclaimer: I work at Vercel, happy to answer any questions. [1]: http://vercel.com/

I tried out vercel for the first time this week after Github pages failed to deploy an already built static site 30 mins before a demo. I took a gamble on vercel about 10 mins before I had to demo and it was running with a few minutes to spare, from starting sign up to having a live site - all free. I'm upgrading us today, because that was an exceptionally good experience. Thanks for making a simple product.

Interesting that you chose to actually host it given the time constraints! I would probably cheat and run a server locally (say python -m http.server 80) and add the domain to /etc/hosts

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

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I use Github Pages + Jekyll for a personal blog. I just started recently. The main problem I'm facing is the limited amount of plugins you can use with Github Pages. They have only whitelisted a few [1].

You can fix this issue by building the site locally and push the generated files but it feels less "proper" to me. There is also the cache policy problem (TTL of 10 minutes) but that's minor.

[1]: https://pages.github.com/versions/

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

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post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried out vercel for the first time this week after Github pages failed to deploy an already built static site 30 mins before a demo. I took a gamble on vercel about 10 mins before I had to demo and it was running with a few minutes to spare, from starting sign up to having a live site - all free. I'm upgrading us today, because that was an exceptionally good experience. Thanks for making a simple product.

Interesting that you chose to actually host it given the time constraints! I would probably cheat and run a server locally (say python -m http.server 80) and add the domain to /etc/hosts

I had to send the demo to people around the world, rather than demo it myself over a call.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

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I use Github Pages + Jekyll for a personal blog. I just started recently. The main problem I'm facing is the limited amount of plugins you can use with Github Pages. They have only whitelisted a few [1]. You can fix this issue by building the site locally and push the generated files but it feels less "proper" to me. There is also the cache policy problem (TTL of 10 minutes) but that's minor. [1]: https://pages.githu…

> You can fix this issue by building the site locally and push the generated files but it feels less "proper" to me.

Why? Then you can build it locally and push it to multiple sites?

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Politically incorrect things get labelled "racist" now a days. I, as a brown immigrant, get to criticize my home country all I want. I can call my home country corrupt, filthy, polluted, no regards for women rights, gay rights, caste system, rapes etc and be totally okay as long as the other person knows I am brown. But suddenly if a white person or someone with the wrong "political affilitation" says the same things…

> I, as a brown immigrant, get to criticize my home country all I want. Countries are not people, so criticism of a country cannot be racist (it's a category error). Criticism of people of a country could be racist, but that's a different thing. Criticism of the government/establishment of a country could be racist, but again that's a different thing. Unfortunately these three separate things often get conflated and…

> Countries are not people, so criticism of a country cannot be racist (it's a category error).

Technically true, but practically useless. What is a country other than a group of people? Almost all criticism of a country will inevitably be about people in it or their actions - with very few exceptions (ex. complaints about the geography, weather, etc).

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