FTP-it to a friends' server.
Seconded. I offered a container to many friends but very few actually take me up on the offer. Server communities are fun, why pay a stranger when you can build something with a friend?
Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?
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#173Firebase hosting work well.
Firebase as in Google's Firebase? I guess the SEO is already done for you, but I'm still not sure I'd make everyone talk to Google to visit my site, even if the hosting is free.
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#174I use https://nearlyfreespeech.net for my static site. It isn't free -- it is pretty cheap -- but it has a lot going for it. It requires no custom tooling -- I upload via rsync. This makes it trivial to migrate to a new provider if necessary. I develop my site locally, then rsync it up. I have a custom domain pointed at the site, and also a custom .htaccess, so I have a good amount of control over the site. I do thin…
I also used/loved NFSN, but I have a habit of neglecting pages for years. I have had more than one site go dark for months before I realized they’d run out of budget. Now I use GH pages so I don’t have to think about it.
If you’re actively updating (or just better organized), NFSN is a good choice
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#175My ISP gives me 10MB of free hosting with FTP access.
Doesn't get much simpler than:
ftp-upload -h myisp.net index.html
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#176Vercel is the way to go
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#177S3 bucket with cloudfront in front. Route 53 for DNS.
Not sure if it’s the cheapest way to do it, but it seems extremely cheap. Likewise not sure if it’s the easiest way to do it, but it seems easy now it’s set up - everything is in one place.
IIRC Cloudfront S3 data transfer has quite a generous free tier.
The only thing I worry about is whether uploading objects is expensive, and invalidation. But it’s not been (noticeably) an issue so far.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
The in-between days (after dial-up ISPs, but before "cloud" meant people forgot they could do things themselves) was to host the website on your own computer. For example, an old laptop, a Raspberry Pi, or an always-on-anyway desktop. I host my personal site this way. I also host about 100 mostly-static mostly-low-use websites at work similarly: with Apache on a couple of VMs. They are more reliable than the free ver…
I'm not sure how you do this unless you have a static IP somehow? In my experience ISPs don't offer that to residential clients
Some ISPs do offer static IPs to residentials users (many of the top 10 here https://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php)
As IPv6 becomes more widely adopted, there will be no need to conserve IP addresses and everyone can be allocated a block of them.
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#179Gatsby with Netlify
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#180Cloudflare pages. The only real limit on the free plan is "500 builds / month". Simple is relative, of course, but if you're a developer, you'll likely find it simple, and it does fit your "deploy with a single command" requirement. https://pages.cloudflare.com/ You can also tie it with the free plan for Cloudflare Workers if you have some need beyond static pages.
Cloudflare Pages will reload/redeploy on any git push right (just like Netlify?) ? Just want to be sure before I try it out..