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

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Post by ldx77 »

busymom0 wrote: post #340
livinginfear wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have used nfshost for hosting multiple sites for over a decade. They're a fantastic service that's simple, secure, and provides great, fast support. They recently published this blog post: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2021/01/19/free-speech-in-... After reading this, I made the decision to move my hosting elsewhere. I have never hosted content that is even remotely political, and have no intention to do so. I…

That blog post was why I decided to not use them too. Specifically their line about > "and we have no interest in living in a sea of mayonnaise." What is that even supposed to mean?? Who refers to people as "mayonnaise"?? While claiming to be against racism??

> Who refers to people as "mayonnaise"??

Self-hating white liberals.

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

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Post by orthecreedence »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #274
messo wrote: post #219

Hosting a personal blog on old / cheap hardware at home and accepting some downtime now and then should be a trade-of worth making for most. An interconnected web of documents served from personal computers residing under a desk or in a basement – it is a beautiful thing. We nerds often seem to fall into the trap of over-engineering things, like, spending a lot of time building personal stuff that can scale into the…

Don't a bunch of residential ISP's not allow HTTP?

Yes but just in the land of the Free.

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

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Post by tasogare »

chriswarbo wrote: post #371
busymom0 wrote: post #345

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Politically incorrect things get labelled "racist" now a days. I, as a brown immigrant, get to criticize my home country all I want. I can call my home country corrupt, filthy, polluted, no regards for women rights, gay rights, caste system, rapes etc and be totally okay as long as the other person knows I am brown. But suddenly if a white person or someone with the wrong "political affilitation" says the same things…

> I, as a brown immigrant, get to criticize my home country all I want. Countries are not people, so criticism of a country cannot be racist (it's a category error). Criticism of people of a country could be racist, but that's a different thing. Criticism of the government/establishment of a country could be racist, but again that's a different thing. Unfortunately these three separate things often get conflated and…

> countries are not people, so criticism of a country cannot be racist

Then how do you explain those reactions? [1] "I'm sorry, but there's no other word one can use but racist".

GP is totally right, nowadays any remote criticism -- and I'm speaking of the factual ones, not the injurious kind mentioned before -- of a foreign country (except China, Russia and NK for some reason) by white people is labeled racist. And of course, people of color are allowed to speak anything they want against European countries, and spread hate speech mostly without any issue (granted one rapper is condamned from time to time... for instance Nick Conrad after singing "hang the whites" [2]).

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/12/politics/trump-shithole-c...

[2] https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/ces-rappeurs-qui-defr...

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

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Post by vbsteven »

mssundaram wrote: post #285
miloignis wrote: post #275

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Gandi.net is my favorite - their motto is "No BS" and I've found that to be true.

I've used Gandi.net for the past 18 years and can agree

Another happy Gandi.net user here. Although some domains I point to cloudflare nameservers if I need some of their features.

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

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Post by vinay427 »

ldx77 wrote: post #391
busymom0 wrote: post #340

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That blog post was why I decided to not use them too. Specifically their line about > "and we have no interest in living in a sea of mayonnaise." What is that even supposed to mean?? Who refers to people as "mayonnaise"?? While claiming to be against racism??

> Who refers to people as "mayonnaise"?? Self-hating white liberals.

This reductionism seems like identity politics at its worst. It sounds like you're saying that anyone who identifies as white (regardless of how arbitrary this race is) must avoid using a term you find disrespectful to describe their race, and doing otherwise means that they are hating themselves?

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

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Post by miyuru »

crazypython wrote: post #58
pgroves wrote: post #55

I have my site in an S3 bucket with the static-site flag activated. It would not win for 'easiest'. However, it's the only thing in my personal AWS account right now and my monthly bill is $0.83

An S3 bucket is intended as storage, not retrieval. Downloading from S3 means grabbing shards. You should put a proper CDN, like CloudFront or Cloudflare, in front.

I agree, S3 is only storage. S3 even does not support gzip compression.

If you are hosting a website in s3, please put a CDN with gzip support in front.

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

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Post by miyuru »

Diederich wrote: post #63
crazypython wrote: post #58

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An S3 bucket is intended as storage, not retrieval. Downloading from S3 means grabbing shards. You should put a proper CDN, like CloudFront or Cloudflare, in front.

> You should put a proper CDN, like CloudFront or Cloudflare, in front. I understand what you're saying, but why? I assume the site in question is pretty low volume. What's wrong with serving directly from S3?

S3 does not support gzip compression.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26600816

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

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Post by RScholar »

dcchambers wrote: post #292

If all you really need is static web hosting there's several "good enough" or even "really good" free options these days, and many of them have insane reliability/uptime and can even build your site/blog for you. Many of them can be set up to deploy automatically when you commit to a repo. - GitHub Pages and Netlify are the two obvious and most popular choices, but there's also cloudflare, gitlab pages, hell even Key…

Yeah, I was going to recommend Keybase as well, despite still being extremely butt-hurt over the sale to Zoom and subsequent abandonment of continued development on it. While it has some limitations, it's hard to beat their combination of uptime, price, a built-in Markdown parser so you don't even have to muck around with Jekyll/Hugo/Pelican et al., as well as mobile apps that expose the files and directory structure for editing on the go. You can even map it to your own external domain.

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

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Post by benkoller »

In case someone finds it helpful, I created a terraform script to create all AWS resources to self-host a static site via S3 and Cloudfront: https://gist.github.com/benkoller/360019b4ad40d572bccc2875b4...

I've been using this for years at over a dozen different projects, I think it's a great way to host even commercial sites.

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