Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#11

Post by cube2222 » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:17 PM UTC

GitHub Pages are probably the easiest to work with, with node modules built for easy one-command publishing.

Though for production I'd probably use S3+Cloudfront.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#12

Post by johnklos » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:18 PM UTC

Just start bozohttpd.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#13

Post by TranquilMarmot » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

cube2222 wrote: post #11

GitHub Pages are probably the easiest to work with, with node modules built for easy one-command publishing. Though for production I'd probably use S3+Cloudfront.

Also auto-publishing on pushes to a specific branch with GitHub actions is really awesome.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#14

Post by high_byte » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:20 PM UTC

glitch.com

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#15

Post by F117-DK » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

Cloudflare Pages, or Firebase Hosting. Both can be spiced up with cloud functions.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#16

Post by jppope » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC

My Favs: - Cloudflare - AWS s3 - Github pages - Google

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#17

Post by iosjunkie » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:22 PM UTC

My weekend project is to move a small personal site to Cloudflare Pages[0]. Can't vouch for it yet, but it might be worth a look.

[0] https://pages.cloudflare.com/

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#18

Post by peanut_worm » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:23 PM UTC

Surge.sh is probably the easiest and fastest. Host a static site in one command.

I like Netlify for most stuff personally.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#19

Post by ducharmdev » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:25 PM UTC

GitHub Pages or Netlify for sure. With either of these options, your static site can be set up to deploy whenever there's new commits to the specified branch.

Me and a friend mentor for Code Louisville, and we're able to get the beginner frontend students up and running very quickly using these options - they're free and much easier to use.

Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

#20

Post by enhdless » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 5:26 PM UTC

maxk42 wrote: post #6

The most popular currently is probably https://www.netlify.com/ - 100% free. If AWS + CloudFront is too difficult and you don't mind spending a few bucks, it's pretty easy to get started with LightSail - about $3.50 a month.

Specifically Netlify Drop: https://app.netlify.com/drop

You don't even need to create an account, just upload a zip of your files.