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Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#62On a side project[1] I used Vuepress[2] and deployed it using Github+Netlify and the experience was amazing. On Netlify, the whole deploy script is: `yarn docs:build`. That's it.
[1]: https://smocker.dev/
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#63This will probably be an unpopular answer, but if you are in a situation where you need to turn over management of the site to a team of non programmers (which this post doesnt sound like); Managed Wordpress + static site plugin and cdn caching.
Managed Wordpress hosting is $4-$6/m from a reputable place[1], and then everything wordpress and below needs no maintenance. Youll have access control for which team members can control what, and there's probably more wordpress expertise out there than any other platform. The amount of good plugins out there minimize reinventing wheels.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#64You have to buy a domain and if u know to write HTML, Javascript and CSS then just use Google cloud storage as everything is static.
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#65Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#66GitHub + Netlify makes a really nice combo as well, since Netlify helps with simple form handling (and a bunch of other niceties)
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#67What I have done is set up my application with Google Cloud Run.
In my case I used that for two websites - one is a blog and another one is a website for auto-generating comments.
In the case of first one, I use middleman to render static HTML files and then create a container that ships nginx and the application.
For the second app, the backend that generates comments is a Node.js application. The frontend is an app created using React, compiled into static website and Node.js serves the files.
Both apps cost me less than $0.1 per month and they have some traffic, but not a lot of it.
For the first app, I've also set up a CI/CD system using Google CLoud Build. So, every time I commit a new blog article, things get updated automatically. I did not have time to migrate the second app to same approach, but it should not be hard to do.
Google Cloud Build + Google Cloud Run can help you run a large variety of technologies almost for free, but in my case I only did it for stateless apps. You could use Google Cloud Run with a database, but I have not tried it.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#68GitHub + Netlify makes a really nice combo as well, since Netlify helps with simple form handling (and a bunch of other niceties)
It really is the nicest combo for any kind of simple site that is either static/calls APIs. Also when paired with something like gatsby can make a full blown CMS/blog-like site with minimal setup
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#69Github pages is pretty much free. You can buy a domain name for ~$10 a year
Big up for GitHub pages! See the documentation here: https://pages.github.com/ You can also use `Jekyll`, a static site generator, directly with it, if you want fancier features: https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages/...
Is Jekyll the only static site generator that works directly with Github pages?
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#70$3.50 / mo - Amazon Lightsail with mostly automatic wordpress setup.