Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

#1

Post by Siah » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 7:29 AM UTC

I am planning to get a hosting service for a client. we are not using any kind of server side programming and the server will just serve a couple of static html, pdf and flash files. What is the most affordable (while reliable) hosting that we can get?

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

#2

Post by aaronblohowiak » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 7:37 AM UTC

s3 / cloudfront

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

#3

Post by bigiain » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 7:43 AM UTC

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #2

s3 / cloudfront

This is what I'd suggest too, with the proviso that the most likely "single point of failure" moves from being some technical decision you make to being the credit card it's paid for with. At ~3c or 7c/month it becomes easy to forget you need to update the expiry date every 3 years...

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

#4

Post by jarin » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 7:47 AM UTC

You can host a Sinatra app on Heroku for free. Here's the complete app:

  require 'rubygems'
  require 'sinatra'

  get '/' do
    File.read(File.join('public', 'index.html'))
  end

Just put all of the files in /public and you're good to go.

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

#5

Post by aeden » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 7:47 AM UTC

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #2

s3 / cloudfront

Are there any tools that you recommend that make it super easy to get a static site up and running on S3 and Cloudfront?

Re: Ask HN: Affordable and reliable hosting for static pages

#6

Post by cperciva » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 7:51 AM UTC

bigiain wrote: post #3

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #2

s3 / cloudfront

This is what I'd suggest too, with the proviso that the most likely "single point of failure" moves from being some technical decision you make to being the credit card it's paid for with. At ~3c or 7c/month it becomes easy to forget you need to update the expiry date every 3 years...

The credit card I used for a development account expired in January, and Amazon sent me email reminders. They also continued to charge the (expired) card.

This suggests to me that card expiry is not a likely failure mode.