Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 99 posts

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

#51

Post by StavrosK »

h0p3 wrote: post #48
StavrosK wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is your site about? I've seen it four times this week, but I haven't really figured out why it's popular.

I think it's fair to call it a personal site and a public self-model, though I cannot say it merits popularity. Unfortunately, I don't have a short and clean answer for what it is about (though I spend significant energy trying to answer that question). It's a place to think, a conduit to communicate with myself and others, and it's where I do philosophy. Each member of my immediate family writes in a wiki every day.…

That makes sense, thank you.

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

#52

Post by Kye »

sivers wrote: post #32
shrutipathak wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bu…

I don't like the idea of companies being able to own the TLD for a concept they had no part in creating, particularly .gay, but at least it seems to be in good hands.

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

#54

Post by bachmeier »

jklein11 wrote: post #4

Github pages is pretty much free. You can buy a domain name for ~$10 a year

Not only that, but you don't have to know anything about Git to get it going. You can upload files directly to your repo using the web interface and do the minor editing of the config file (for say choosing a theme) in the browser. I don't know if anyone has written this up. It really is simple enough that absolutely anyone can do it.

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

#56

Post by xueyongg »

I pay about 20usd per year for my server. Domain is about 7usd per year as well. I run my website as a SPA using NUXT.js. I update my articles using markdown (:

My server is 512mb ram (haha) + 5gb SSD. Not too bad for static sites! I tried to run a telegram bot and it holds quite well as well. Check it out! I write about technology mixed with other domains! Do give me feedback! Appreciate them all hehe (:

https://blog.phuaxueyong.com/post/2020-05-30-6-things-michae...

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

#57

Post by ziffusion »

If you have a constant-on internet connection, then right on your own machine (WIndows or Linux). Use a dynamic DNS (DDNS) service (with a low TTL) so people can always find you by name even if your IP address changes. After that, learn a bit of PHP or Python and use one of many web application frameworks (Flask or Bottle or Django).

Price $0.

Around $12 annually to buy a domain name if you like (if you are not happy with one that the DDNS service will give you).

When you start getting traffic, you may want to consider AWS, starting at the free tier and going up.

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?

#58

Post by nico_h »

github page would be the cheapest. Then it's a control vs price.

You can generate your own static site with Hugo / Jekyll / Frankenstein's ___.sh then upload somewhere (including github)

You can go S3 static pages : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/EnableWebsit...

(I think backblaze has a cheaper API-compatible S3 clone,)

You can go the VPS way, Vultr being amongst the cheapest (Monthly $3.5 IPv4 / $2.5 IPv6 only)

Or you can go semi managed hosting, with nearlyfreespeech starting at $1.74 per month for static sites if you host DNS with them.

Post reply on HN