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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?
#82Funny you should ask, I made just the thing for you the other day: https://quicksite.stavros.io/ It's just a git repo you can clone, so you own your site (it's not a service or a static site generator). It uses Lektor to generate pages (just because that's what I use, though I'm eyeing Zola as a good alternative), and it supports deploying to Gitlab Pages and Neocities with its CI config. You can also push the site t…
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Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#83Funny you should ask, I made just the thing for you the other day: https://quicksite.stavros.io/ It's just a git repo you can clone, so you own your site (it's not a service or a static site generator). It uses Lektor to generate pages (just because that's what I use, though I'm eyeing Zola as a good alternative), and it supports deploying to Gitlab Pages and Neocities with its CI config. You can also push the site t…
I likes. Suggestions on how to integrate comments into it?
I use commento, but generally find comments a bit useless.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#84You can make one for free on WordPress.com
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#85Another free alternative, like github pages, is https://render.com
Pretty much the same deal, I used it for a while and it worked well. You can connected to a github repo too, so it deploys when you push.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#86+1 for a static site generator with GitHub + Netlify. Even manual deployment to Netlify is enough for most needs. Just drag the public folder in and you're done. It's an automagical experience. I am actually in process of moving to Hugo/Netlify, and if I come close to bandwidth or storage caps I hope B2/Cloudfare has implemented official solutions by then. I'd personally love to avoid s3.
Why the adversity to S3?
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#87I have found Webflow to be incredibly useful in doing this - the various templates for different use-cases (Blog, E-Com Store etc) was quite simple to quickly setup and get something off ground.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#88In addition to the Gitlab/Github options, AWS S3 by itself is fairly decent and a few pennies. You can front it by cloudfront for more money if you need a global CDN. There's also NearlyFreeSpeech[^1] which is very cheap and very free speech oriented. [^1]: https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
But with s3/cf if you get hugged by something like hn you're going to be in for a hefty bandwidth bill.
HTML and CSS are real tiny. Don't include the kitchen sink if you can't afford sending it across the wire.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#89Actually you can get all your want by simply Google it but for your convenience: 1) free options: you can choose wordpress.com, blogspot, github, etc to host your website, but the drawback is you have to use their sub-domain system which is ugly, like yourwebsite.wordpress.com, another con is the backend of website lack many customization features, all in all, you host your content on other's house, what more can u a…
You can use a custom domain name with BlogSpot.
The hosting is still free. All you pay for is the domain name.
I have set this up for other people for a few bucks because doing the CNAME stuff is a bit of a pain. But once it is set up, you're set. It's a one time thing.
Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest way to make a website?
#90Using github page is free and easy for static web pages.
Surge[0] is also an awesome CDN with cli support.
You can update the content as well, so not really static in the way IPFS do.
If you need non-manual dynamic content, 000webhost[1] has free mysql & php server for you.
If you prefer to program the server in node.js, webtask[2] has free severless node.js env for you.
If you're considering non-free solution or more control/freedom, linode[3] is my first choice. The cheapest plan is $5/mo for 1GB RAM, 25GB SSD and 1TB traffic.