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

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Cloudflare Pages

> Unlimited bandwidth<p>you can upgrade to the pro ($20/mo) or business ($200/mo) plans for more concurrent builds or builds per month. Still not priced per domain or site!<p>[1]: <a href="https://pages.cloudflare.com/#pricing" rel="nofollow">https://pages.cloudflare.com/#pricing</a>.

#Developer Tools #Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing 130 social mentions

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surge.sh

I continue to be a big fan of surge [1]. A number of toy projects/demos of mine have been developed using create-react-app, rendered to static files, then deployed via surge.<p>[1] = <a href="https://surge.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://surge.sh/</a>.

#Static Site Generators #Website Builder #Cloud Computing 24 social mentions

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NearlyFreeSpeech.NET

I use <a href="https://nearlyfreespeech.net" rel="nofollow">https://nearlyfreespeech.net</a> for my static site.<p>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.<p>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 things like serve html without the .html filetype in the url; e.g. <a href="https://zck.org/emacsconf2020" rel="nofollow">https://zck.org/emacsconf2020</a> is stored on the server as emacsconf2020.html . (I do this so Emacs recognizes the files as html, but keeps the urls clean).<p>It's a nice tool if you want to get a little involved in your setup, without getting wrapped up in proprietary tooling. It does charge for what you use, so it's not a great site if you are going to host Blu-ray images that get downloaded from everyone on HN.

#Web Hosting #Hosting #Shared Hosting 22 social mentions

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Vercel

Check out Vercel! [1] You can deploy in a single command in a few minutes. No hoops.<p>Disclaimer: I work at Vercel, happy to answer any questions.<p>[1]: <a href="http://vercel.com/" rel="nofollow">http://vercel.com/</a>.

#Developer Tools #Web Development Tools #App Deployment 527 social mentions

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Render

I user <a href="https://render.com" rel="nofollow">https://render.com</a> for my dynamic ($7/month) and static (free) sites.<p>You specify a build command (ex. `npm run build`), and a directory `_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).<p>I stan render.

#Cloud Infrastructure #Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting 419 social mentions

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Bunny.net

Seconding the <a href="https://nearlyfreespeech.net" rel="nofollow">https://nearlyfreespeech.net</a> suggestion. I used to be their customer and had absolutely no complaints.<p>I have switched to BunnyCDN [1] a while back, also very happy with it. Pricing is extremely cheap, and has the added benefit of being able to cache anything dynamic you might add in the future.<p>[1]: <a href="https://bunny.net/" rel="nofollow">https://bunny.net/</a>.

#CDN #Cloud Computing #Content Distribution 63 social mentions

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Gift Wrap My Face

Check with your ISP, they often offer some 10 or sometimes 50! MB of free space to host your homepage and images under an account url, eg: <a href="http://example.com/~you" rel="nofollow">http://example.com/~you</a>. Uploading is easy, just FTP your files to their server and your done!<p>I miss the old days :(.

#Social Networks #Social Network #Microblogging 83 social mentions

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lftp

Seconding BunnyCDN. I use it with <a href="https://lftp.yar.ru/" rel="nofollow">https://lftp.yar.ru/</a> in reverse mirror mode to upload/update my generated public/ folder. Easy and cheap!

#SSH #File Transfer #CLI 6 social mentions

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LayerCI

#Continuous Integration #Continuous Deployment #DevOps Tools 3 social mentions

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tiiny.host

#Website Builder #Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing 19 social mentions

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Firebase Hosting

#Developer Tools #Website Builder #Static Site Generators 23 social mentions

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VuePress

I have looked into this, I found that [vuepress] <a href="https://vuepress.vuejs.org/" rel="nofollow">https://vuepress.vuejs.org/</a> compiles into quite good looking static sites.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 31 social mentions

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GitHub Pages

If you don’t mind the code being public, GitHub pages is free and a fantastic resource. I think you can also upgrade to a paid version to make the code private. Check it out here: <a href="https://pages.github.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pages.github.com/</a>.

#Static Site Generators #Cloud Computing #Blogging 466 social mentions

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Docsify.js

I use docsify with github pages. This allows you to edit in markdown.<p>Github basically gives you a free IDE.<p><a href="https://docsify.js.org/#/" rel="nofollow">https://docsify.js.org/#/</a>.

#Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Knowledge Base 17 social mentions