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Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by lucasarruda »

fao_ wrote: post #7

I generally use nearlyfreespeech.net I added about 5 gbp two years ago and it's down to about 4 gbp. It's cheap as hell and I only have to dump 5 pounds on there every few years or so.

Of all services mentioned here, this is the one I like the most and the one I think I'll use.

Their pay as you go makes totally sense when you have a static website that will be access sporadically and you don't want to rely in a public infrastructure such as Github.

I also don't want to depend on freemium services, because they could just shut down the free tier any time.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by tapan_k »

reimertz wrote: post #24

Github Pages + cloudflare + travis why: free, cdn, version-controlled, continuous integration, https, custom domains.

+1 for Github Pages + Cloudflare

Wish there was a poll option on HN. How are you going to count OP? Will you share the results?

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by onli »

thunfisch wrote: post #37

Uberspace.de Shell Access, pretty much every common language available, service running, databases, mail, etc.. No bullshit hosting in germany, Pay what you want (1€/month minimum). Absolute best, I'm hosting about 25 projects with them for various bands, etc. and haven't had any problems whatsoever.

Uberspace really also makes for a great email hoster, if you don't need too much space (currently, one uberspace is limited to 10GB) for your emails. You get a proper IMAP server and a roundcube as web client. Works great.

Hosting does not has to be static with them, I run several serendipity instances with them and had no issue. But sure, static file hosting will work very well with them, since Apache is already configured. Creating the uberspace, uploading the files, done.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by larrydag »

nodejs-news wrote: post #45

I'm a great self-hosting fan, behind my DSL connection using 2 x RaspberryPI. I have 3 static web sites, 2 with Jekyll, 1 with Hugo, with great perf : checkout webpagetest -> https://www.webpagetest.org/result/161123_0R_8RDY/ and feel free to check my 3 web sites: - http://www.it-wars.com - http://www.louer-hendaye.com - http://www.nodejs-news.com Init : 2 RaspberryPi + electric plugs : 2x 30$ + 2 x6$ Monthly bill: e…

Can you explain your setup and how you did your self hosted sites?

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by keehun »

mehdix wrote: post #64

Github pages + Jekyll + Wercker for custom builds Pros: free, convinient (a push ends up as a new post upon a successful build) Cons: no SSL with custom domain on Github (at least not easily)

With Netlify, you get all those things with custom SSL. In fact, you don't even need your own cert as Netlify interfaces with Let's Encrypt on its own to provide a custom certificate.

It also lets you interface with Gitlabs (which has its own Github pages competitor) which provides you with free private repos. I think it's a much superior setup than Github.

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by K0nserv »

I use Github to host the source for my blog/website which is open source. Jekyll for the building which happens on Travis CI. Deployment on S3 with cloudflare as a CDN for SSL and reduced bandwidth. I really like this setup. I wrote a guide called The One Cent Blog[0] a while back detailing how it's setup. Typical months the cost is around $0.01-$0.03.

Becuase people usually ask why S3 over Github pages I'll answer it up front. Github pages is too limited in terms of what you can do with custom jekyll plugins and code.

0: https://hugotunius.se/2016/01/10/the-one-cent-blog.html

Re: Ask HN: What free or low-cost static site hosting do you use most?

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Post by imgabe »

I have the cheapest VPS from Linode, which is $12.50 a month including an extra $2.5/mo for their automatic backup service. (So, $10 if you don't want them to do the backup for you)

I wrote my own little script that converts markdown to html with python and push that to the server with git, but of course with a VPS you can run pretty much anything you want.

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