I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.
Make This in an Hour
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#32I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.
It's not totally free, but if you host your site on an S3 bucket (which will cost pennies/month [1] if you don't have gigabytes of stuff) and then put free-tier Cloudflare [2] in front of it.
The name of the bucket has to be the same as your domain (e.g. `www.example.co`), and then you turn on static site hosting in the bucket settings, and get a URL like `www.example.co.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com`, then you can add a CNAME record in CloudFlare pointing `www.example.co` to the bucket URL. (If the bucket name doesn't match the domain name, S3 will complain)
It's not free, but it is cheap.
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ [2] http://www.cloudflare.com/plans
Re: Make This in an Hour
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure the title is make THIS website, not make A website.
Well codecademy has a course to make the airbnb website. You code it yourself to be like airbnb, you don't just copy and paste their code.
I think the purpose of this website is a little bit personal to the developer, he is just showing his friends (and now other people) that getting a site up and running with a domain is an easy task.
The site also doesn't say to copy paste the contents (read point 6 and 7) so your example is a bit strange. The site doesn't even mention to copy paste anything as far as I saw.
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#34I want more friends like this.
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#35I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.
Can't you use GitHub pages for multiple sites? Or create multiple GitHub accounts?
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#36I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.
Netlify is awesome. Can even run a build process (similar to github pages) but using just about any static site generator.
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#37I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.
Can't you use GitHub pages for multiple sites? Or create multiple GitHub accounts?
You can make a github page for each project, but it walks me through a process that forces me to use their template and my own markdown, not able to actually upload html/css etc. I suppose I could create another github account though, but not sure if I want to do that every one-off site I want to put up.
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#38Love the project! Plan on putting it on github? (Is this you? https://github.com/smithamilli ) Also, noticed you're working on CareersMob? Let me know if you want an intro to the folks CareerMob ( https://twitter.com/careermob )
It's on Github! https://github.com/smilli/makethisinanhour
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure the title is make THIS website, not make A website.
Well codecademy has a course to make the airbnb website. You code it yourself to be like airbnb, you don't just copy and paste their code.
Following your point of view, code-academy's approach is equally shitty. The airbnb "website" is not just a front-end with some HTMl/CSS and 4 png images that you've put together and will give you an airbnb clone.
There's a heavy backend, multiple servers to setup, manage and monitor. Then there are databases, SSLs configurations, privacy concerns, http requests that need to be routed, emails that need quick replies, fault-tolerance strategies, CDNs, authentication schemes, payment gateways, rating systems, backup schemes...
Did Code Academy teach how to handle all of the above or are you referring to a front page that I could fetch and regenerate in 20 seconds using curl?
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#40err, or you could just upload index.html to any shared hosting in 5 minutes? The trouble of making a site (at least for people who can edit html directly, as in this example) is not about how to do it, but about high expectations and standards that we impose on ourselves... I'm guilty of this mysqlf, my site hasn't been updated in like 5 years, and I've built dozens of sites for others in that period...