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

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Post by dddw »

Diesel555 wrote: post #476
messo wrote: post #219

Hosting a personal blog on old / cheap hardware at home and accepting some downtime now and then should be a trade-of worth making for most. An interconnected web of documents served from personal computers residing under a desk or in a basement – it is a beautiful thing. We nerds often seem to fall into the trap of over-engineering things, like, spending a lot of time building personal stuff that can scale into the…

I do the same thing. The only problem I have is with my mail server. Any email that comes from my dynamic IP address auto goes to junk for everyone. I send probably one every two weeks for password resets.

Setup dynamic dns , and point your spf to that

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

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Post by danielheath »

rantwasp wrote: post #449
danielheath wrote: post #373

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For $work I reduced our cloudfront egress bill by over $2000 / month by putting cloudflare in front of cloudfront. For a side project I likely wouldn't bother, but the pricing differential is really damn steep.

2000$ is a lot of traffic. way more than any side project would have. I guess that if you are at a point where you are making decisions like you needed to you are out of the “easiest way to setup a static website” territory. I would be curious what kind of content you were serving and how much traffic/what are the absolute $ numbers cloudfront vs cloudflare.

We ship about 800gb / day, half of which is image/jpeg.

Every byte that comes out of the cloudflare cache is a byte you don't pay for out of cloudfront, and cloudflare is only $20/mo.

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

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Post by poushkar »

Over the years, I've tried it all. Currently hosting my blog (nywkap.com) on AWS S3. It's cheap and fast but the overhead is still annoying. I don't find it interesting or technically challenging to go through the bumps of re-generating/re-deploying/cleaning CDN caches, etc. Also, publishing from a smartphone is either too hard or even impossible.

[self-promotion] After some frustration, I actually started working on a blogging platform that combines the speed of static site generators with the comfort of hosted solutions, all while making sure you own the data in a sane format. And also a personal preference - it must be as green as possible.

Check it out: https://zeroms.blog/

I should have the MVP ready next month.

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

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Post by messo »

indigodaddy wrote: post #342
messo wrote: post #219

Hosting a personal blog on old / cheap hardware at home and accepting some downtime now and then should be a trade-of worth making for most. An interconnected web of documents served from personal computers residing under a desk or in a basement – it is a beautiful thing. We nerds often seem to fall into the trap of over-engineering things, like, spending a lot of time building personal stuff that can scale into the…

Definitely cool, but personally, I’d rather not open any inbound holes into my home network, no matter how secure I may think it is.

This can be solved by having a separate VLAN for services that are exposed to the internet.

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

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Post by messo »

mro_name wrote: post #423
messo wrote: post #219

Hosting a personal blog on old / cheap hardware at home and accepting some downtime now and then should be a trade-of worth making for most. An interconnected web of documents served from personal computers residing under a desk or in a basement – it is a beautiful thing. We nerds often seem to fall into the trap of over-engineering things, like, spending a lot of time building personal stuff that can scale into the…

I wonder if 3rd parties could DOS the telephone (VoIP) this way? Do you take precautions or just accept the theoretically lower reliability of the phone – which isn't anything reliable anymore anyway, thanks to VoIP?

I do not currently have a VoIP telephone, but don't think it would be an immediate worry as I have a 500/500 fiber connection.

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

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Post by flippinburgers »

busymom0 wrote: post #340
livinginfear wrote: post #283

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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…

That blog post was why I decided to not use them too. Specifically their line about > "and we have no interest in living in a sea of mayonnaise." What is that even supposed to mean?? Who refers to people as "mayonnaise"?? While claiming to be against racism??

The post would have been just as effective without that oddly phrased phrase. It is a strange jab at "whiteness" which, I think, reveals the general attitude of the people running the company. Personally I think they should remove that sentence. It isn't a good look.

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

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Post by adkadskhj »

yarcob wrote: post #339
livinginfear wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

There's a difference between "freely expressing your ideas" and eg. plotting a vigilante kidnapping. The former should be protected, the latter should be reported to the police. A lot of the people who say they want free speech actually have some kind of anarchist fantasy where they can do whatever they want without consequences. It seems like you care about free speech, not anarchism, so I'm not sure why the blog po…

Yea, this is where my line is. I absolutely believe in full free speech. However, i do not believe free speech is the same as a broadcast (televised, viral, etc).

Yes, it's muddy water, but so is everything. There's nuance in threatening to kill someone. However i think we're in a new age, and we need to analyze where free speech changes into coordinated/group-think hysteria.

Which isn't to say that we should tightly control coordinated communication. Rather it's just that i think the two are different, and i think the modern age requires us to recognize that and discuss it.

We're in the age of misinformation. And a nutter yelling on a street corner is one thing, but giving him a TV Show in Prime Time is another. The damage he can do on a street corner? Minimal. The damage when broadcast to the world? That is the concern to me.

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

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Post by hellojason »

singhrac wrote: post #374
heyoni wrote: post #333

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Same here. Not sure where they’re getting that from. Possibly region specific?

I replied upthread, but I made a mistake reading https://docs.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/... when revisiting what I remembered, and I was just looking at it from the perspective of private repos. My bad!

Oh right, good point. The repo had to be public until very recently.

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

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Post by john-doe »

Can_Not wrote: post #468
john-doe wrote: post #247

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Sounds like the perfect plan. How many of the companies mentioned in this thread will be around in 10 years? I'd bet on neocities.

What makes you think neocities stands out and above?

From what I understand the motivation behind neocities is more political (humanist) than commercial. Also it's fully open-source (the data could easily be hosted anywhere else for cheap). You can read more about their stance on their blog: https://blog.neocities.org/
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