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

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

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Post by purec » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

I personally use Firebase for all my static sites. Completely free and fast. If you need to run some backend function they have Firebase functions which is free to a certain degree too.

Example site: https://jeremyshaw.co.nz

Other than that I'm sure Github Pages and Netlify are fine, both very popular options.

Worst case you put it on Amazon S3 and get charged a fraction of a dollar every month .

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

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Post by datacruncher01 » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 6:53 PM UTC

I've played with a free .tk domain and use their framed redirect (http only) to point to a itty.bitty.site page. Works transparently as far as a user goes.

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

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Post by BenoitP » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 7:06 PM UTC

> jumping through AWS hoops

I found S3 static hosting to be fairly straightforward. Once set up, a single `aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/path` updates the content.

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

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Post by gabriel897 » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 7:10 PM UTC

ducharmdev wrote: post #19

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.

+1 I have been using Netlify to host 3 static sites for many months now. Have had 0 issues. Set up took <15 minutes. Making changes is a breeze.

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

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Post by kpats » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

If you want a pre-configured way to publish your notes or digital garden, Dendron's got an easy to use 1-click publish: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/53de5c1e-b20c-4adc-ae48-e1659e...

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

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Post by framecowbird » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

BenoitP wrote: post #43

> jumping through AWS hoops I found S3 static hosting to be fairly straightforward. Once set up, a single `aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/path` updates the content.

Agreed! It's super easy

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

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Post by nknealk » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #21

https://render.com (lead by early Stripe infra employee!)

Seconding render. I host a Hugo site with them. Their free tier is pretty feature-rich and I love the automated builds. My site is set up so that any push to the main branch on a private github repo gets automatically checked out, compiled to HTML, and updated on their CDN.

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

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Post by ZephyrBlu » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 8:04 PM UTC

Strom wrote: post #9

Google App Engine has a very generous free quota. The setup isn't as easy as good old FTP, because you need to define your static files in a configuration file. Once the config is written the deployment is a single command though. https://cloud.google.com/appengine

I think you're better off using bucket storage rather than App Engine for a static site.

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

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Post by jsilence » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

Regarding some cost free solutions mentioned here: how does the saying 'if it is free, then you are the product' hold up?

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

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Post by romellem » Fri, Mar 26, 2021, 8:08 PM UTC

leerob wrote: post #36

Check 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/

I will second this recommendation. I use Vercel for all my static sites and have found it wonderful to work with and well documented.