If it doesn't need a backend you can just host it on github/cloudflare pages, easy and free forever
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Hetzner is my go to for VPS hosting right now. Good balance of quality and cost IMHO. But I nee d more than just a static website, so a VPS may be overkill for you to maintain. I like the control and flexibility, though.
If you want to have a static site, you can do all of this for free through Cloudflare. Has full GitHub integration so that you can commit a change, and Cloudflare will run whatever build step is necessary from your framework (e.g. Hugo, 11ty, etc) and deploy it for you. No need to pay for a host if this is what you want.
I mostly use AWS. I have about five different accounts going and I delete/remake them each time the free tier runs out.
Can you somehow migrate the stuff from the old account to the new one?
I keep local backups of everything, so restoring the files is trivial. In the git repo, I have instructions on how to set things up: what packages to install, where to place certain config files and what to put in them. You could use containers to make it even easier, but I haven't found the need for it yet.
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i use nearlyfreespeech.net for registrar and small-site hosting. its incredibly cheap, pay for what you need etc.
i use amazon AWS for anything that needs professional-level services including SMTP and 'account handoff' capability if i need to walk away and hand it to someone else.
If you don't need a backend, you can just host it in s3
That's a way to tie your invoice to the traffic, which you don't need to do.
000webhost, because I've been using them on and off for over 20 years and they're good enough for my needs.
I used to use them, too, and they were my first checkin, but they closed as of June-2024.
Ah shit I just used them last year. Sad to see them shut down their free service. They were honestly among the best free web hosts.
I agree. I've used them for so many side projects over the years, one of which I upgraded to their paid.
Opalstack. Simple to configure. Great support.
I use tilde.club to host my website and gemini capsule. It's awersome I don't have to think about managing the server since it's done by the staff of tilde.club
That's a really cool space for hobbies and such, and I will totally use this! For this particular project, though, I need proper tld and hosting service. Doesn't have to be a .com, per se.
I use A2 hosting for domain and service and then edit the website through ghost
My fiction writing site (www.gorillarepublic.co) runs off of Grav. I wanted to go DB free, so flat file was big, wanted to avoid WP and Ghost, so this became it. It's fast, light and works for me, thought it needed panel beating to where it is right now.
Grav looks awesome, by the way. Who is your hoster?
Thanks. I got a barebones VPS from Contabo.
As a long time Grav user I can confirm it it great
I like Alwyzon. They're in Austria and I'm in North America, but it doesn't seem to matter. Somehow their servers are always so much quicker to respond than others.
I moved from TransIP to Hetzner. TransIP started costing me more than €40 for 2vCPU + 4GB RAM + 1.25TB extra storage. While this same product only cost me €23 years ago. So I decided to move to Hetzner because I could get a 2vCPU + 8GB + 1TB extra storage for only €21. Plus it also allows Tor bridge nodes, which was a must for me. After doing benchmarks to see if the Hetzner server wasn't shit, I came to the conclusion that it was almost 5 times faster. Awesome. I don't have too much experience with them yet, but on first glance I'm very happy.
Regarding software, I run Docker containers with different software. But the main service I'm running is a self made PHP website/webapp. I also use Grav for a blog, but I'm not too happy with it because I think it's convoluted.
Depending on the interactivity required from the website, you can use GitHub pages. I've hosted my personal portfolio site/blog on there for years with no issues.
It's limited to HTML/CSS/JS but there are also GitHub Actions to take markdown pages and render them as HTML, keeping updating the site easy for everyone.
This post will probably get taken down, it doesn't belong to AskLemmy. You might want [email protected] or one of the programming communities like [email protected].
That said, it's fairly easy to just rent out a cheap VPS for like $5 to get started, get NGINX, MariaDB and PHP running on it and then install Wordpress or Drupal.
I personally would wait for the Wordpress drama to settle before commiting to that platform.
The problem with hosting services dedicated to say, Wordpress, is the lack of control. If you need other apps to run you have to pay for another service, whereas your own VPS/server you can do whatever you want. Need ElasticSearch for something else? Sure, no problem, as long as the server is big enough.
Didn't know about [email protected] thanks!
I thought about asking [email protected], but didn't feel it fully fit there, since I'm not specifically asking about self-hosted service or app, but, instead, about a standard .com (or whatever tld).
I checked the rules for ask Lemmy, and didn't see anything that would suggest that this question wouldn't fit, but I would also understand if it didn't fully fit under the "open discussion question" rule. Basically, I completely understand and don't hold it against the mods if it were to be taken down haha
The vps solution might be where I end up. But $5 vps? Which ones are those?
Try poking around Low End Box to see what done it the offers have been:
GitHub, when needing php lima-city, GitHub doesn't support that (both of these are free :D)
My blog is currently a static Hugo site hosted on my free Github Pages site.
So it's powered by two github repos in practice. One is the uncompiled huge source which has a build pipeline that automatically does a build and pushes it to the Github.io/Pages repo.
I use phpwebhosting.com and have since I left angelfire in... 2001? PHP and mySQL support, a decent amount of customization, unmetered bandwidth, and unlimited subdomains.
My personal website is just a static website, built using Hugo and served using Caddy. Originally it was hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS but now it’s hosted from my home.
My needs were simple enough that even that much is probably overkill though. Honestly I just wanted something that I could understand completely how it works and be able to update it easily as life went on.
My personal website is made using Hugo, sitting behind Caddy, and hosted on Racknerd. I see elsewhere in the thread that you're looking for something akin to a $5/month VPS, but racknerd is MUCH cheaper for much more vCPU + vRAM (older hardware, but that's not a deal breaker for hosting a static website).
I used to do $6/Month on Digital Ocean for 1 vCPU + 1GB vRAM + 1TB bandwidth, but now I'm somewhere like $3/Month for 2 vCPU + 2.5GB vRAM + 5TB bandwidth [1]. In fact, I paid $6 extra to have the server in France. Otherwise it's $30 a year.
Check out racknerd tracker [2]. I found out about it through lemmy many months ago [3]. The person who made the website gets some affiliate stuff.
[1] https://racknerdtracker.com/?product=211/25gb-kvm-vps
I use wix.com