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Time isn't free, we have a lot of backend developers use https://versoly.com/ as they don't want to focus on design and actually want a good looking website quickly.
+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?
Notion can be used to create simple websites. You can then find an online tutorial to use Notion with a custom domain. Other than the cost of the domain, this method is entirely free.
If I didn't know they was notion I would have exited and went else where.
I 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.
I have spoke to a lot of founders, marketers and developers who struggled to use the platform.
There's plenty that will be free or low cost initially, but it may be a matter of time before the deal changes, they're acquired & shutdown, or they go out of business.
For static sites you can emulate this workflow fairly cheaply, from github-pages, to serving with aws s3, or simmilar (I have an abandoned blog on s3 and pay ~cents a month, but I never fully grokked aws pricing)
If you need people that wouldn't edit text/markdown/html directly, there are even git-based cms, that can abstract away the dev-friendly 'edit text, commit, push to repo' to more user friendly 'login somewhere and click a button to change content'.
https://www.netlify.com/ if you have a lot of time. If you're still using github pages give it a try you will be very impressed. Time isn't free, we have a lot of backend developers use https://versoly.com/ as they don't want to focus on design and actually want a good looking website quickly.
https://www.netlify.com/ if you have a lot of time. If you're still using github pages give it a try you will be very impressed. Time isn't free, we have a lot of backend developers use https://versoly.com/ as they don't want to focus on design and actually want a good looking website quickly.
Looks like netlify requires a github account? I have an issue with that, as I'm against monopolies. As far as small private web sites are concerned, there are a lot of totally free options, and Hetzner offers web sites for 2 euro a month - 10GB space and unlimited traffic included, and it's a very solid company.