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

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Post by Dracophoenix »

morphle wrote: post #452
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…

I have hosted all my websites on a server at home since 1993 until 2021. I never had any downtime or problems. I ran a ISP and datacenter from my home for a decade as well. Nowadays I have a $2 per month VPS to forward a static IP at 1 Gbps to both my home servers and a failover server at a friends home. Works fine up to 600 Mbps sustained web traffic. Its been cheaper than colocation of dedicated servers and much ch…

How does one run an ISP at one's house? Wouldn't you need access to a backbone or peering agreements?

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

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Post by morphle »

Dracophoenix wrote: post #501
morphle wrote: post #452

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have hosted all my websites on a server at home since 1993 until 2021. I never had any downtime or problems. I ran a ISP and datacenter from my home for a decade as well. Nowadays I have a $2 per month VPS to forward a static IP at 1 Gbps to both my home servers and a failover server at a friends home. Works fine up to 600 Mbps sustained web traffic. Its been cheaper than colocation of dedicated servers and much ch…

How does one run an ISP at one's house? Wouldn't you need access to a backbone or peering agreements?

In 1990 I started the first ISP in the Netherlands, I had a dialup modem bank in a spare room after I installed the first hundred phone lines from the trunk line across the street. My backbone was upgraded to a 2 Mbps custom modem to the rail way station nearby. From there we had 2 Mbps modems at every rail way station from Utrecht to Amsterdam and eventually all the way across the country up to Groningen.

I upgraded to a fiber optic line around 1996 straight to the first free internet exchange in the world in Amsterdam, that we started ourselves. There we peered and had transit fibers.

Now I'm laying my own fiber backbone and house to house power router network [1] starting at many internet exchanges (one per country). We combine that with HVDC electricity backbones interconnecting solar and wind to build the first community owned Enernet with 10-80 Gbps internet.

Join us to start Enernet in your neighbourhood and give the internet back to the endusers while also saving each household over $2000 in heating and electricity bills per year.

[1] https://www.academia.edu/download/51128325/Fiberhood_white_p...

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

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Post by chriswarbo »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #437
chriswarbo wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 (it's a category error). Technically true, but practically useless. What is a country other than a group of people? Almost all criticism of a country will inevitably be about people in it or their actions - with very few exceptions (ex. complaints about the geography, weather, etc).

> What is a country other than a group of people?

Which group of people? The population? The government? These can be very different (just ask Myanmar)

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

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Post by greg5green »

indigodaddy wrote: post #197
greg5green wrote: post #164

I'd say Digital Ocean's newish Apps platform. Static sites are free and they can run a build step for you (still free).

Only 1G of transfer on the free tier though. That's fairly middling.

I didn't see that when they launched -- wondering now if I'm blind or they added that caveat after the fact

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

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Post by toastal »

toastal wrote: post #403
malodyets wrote: post #227

I’ll second the use of GitLab pages - free hosting, free letsencrypt cert, only pay for your domain, very easy setup. Here’s my setup with Zola: https://seanharrison.org/postgrails/20200523-got-zola/ A couple notes about setting up DNS since the gitlab instructions weren’t 100% clear to me: https://seanharrison.org/postgrails/20200720-gitlab-pages-dn...

I can't say I'd second it -- at least not for anything outside of demos. You can't set custom headers which means you can set the recommended OWASP security headers and you'll get an F score on Mozilla Observatory. This will also not let you set proper caching headers which can mess with performance or just be incorrect like with service workers. A small additional nitpick is that you will need to do your own gzip an…

can't* set

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

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Post by jetpackjoe »

zokier wrote: post #181
jetpackjoe wrote: post #137

I user https://render.com for my dynamic ($7/month) and static (free) sites. You specify a build command (ex. `npm run build`), and a directory (ex. `_site/`) and it will build and host it for you. It can automatically deploy on git events, or via web hook, or manually (button push). SSL/custom domains are also free and very easy to setup. I stan render.

Is render like heroku for the dynamic stuff? Seems very similar offering

I find it simpler than Heroku. No buildpacks or database addons.
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