If you have an MSDN subscription (e.g. through work), using your free Azure credits to host a site is a pretty good option.
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#32GitHub 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.
Also you can deploy your `public` folder to Netlify simply by drag-and-drop. I love this.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#33I use S3's static site hosting. works great.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#34I use pinata to pin an ipfs hash and then a public gateway (currently using cloudflare). It's free and a fun programming assignment to script the pinata and DNS APIs so that I can update my site.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#35Just a reminder you can host a static site or any other kind of site on your home computer. That's the internet folks.
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#36Check out Vercel! [1] You can deploy for free, with a single command, in a few minutes.
Disclaimer: I work at Vercel, happy to answer any questions.
[1]: http://vercel.com/
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#37Azure Static Web Apps is free at the minute, and I've heard the pricing will be very reasonable once it comes out of preview (in the cents/pennies probably unless you're really popular!)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/app-service/stati...
Would recommend giving it a bash, or you could deploy it manually with Azure Blob Storage Websites and a simple deployment CI pipeline.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#38I host my .org on Github Pages.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#39GitHub 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.
I've been very happy with this setup for my simple personal marketing site.
Re: Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
#40Digital Ocean App Platform gives 3 free static sites.