Early in any freelancer, college grad, high school student, or any other developer's career, there is a need for a website. This website will need ...
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Some ISP's will upcharge for stuff like this, and can make changes to the prices because of self-hosting. Some areas are also not as fortunate to have multiple ISP's available to switch.
Thanks to opinion, as long as website does not have high traffic, ISP would be OK.
AWS S3+CloudFront is an option too. You can buy a domain name using Route53, you get a free SSL certificate, because you are using an AWS service to host your content. If you would like to have dynamic content, then you can try out Lambda. With a personal webpage, you will definitely fit into the free tier. The only expense is the domain name.
Yeah this is definitely an easy solution with alot of great documentation / articles on all of the different services involved.
This is a solution I did not know myself! I will look into it when I can
A few notes:
Your domain registrar DOES matter on the point of whether they'll protect your privacy by default or not. Gandi.net is one that does, although there are others. You should absolutely never have to pay for whois privacy! (Avoid GoDaddy like the plague for that reason, among others.) Also, be sure to shop around and make sure you're paying market price for a domain. You should only be paying once a year, you should be able to point the domain to anywhere you want, and there should be no limits on what ports you can use.
You can host your own email on the domain name for free with any half-decent web host. It's relatively trivial to configure Postfix/Dovecot, either through a host-provided wizard, or manually configured yourself. Don't pay extra for this "feature" — it should cost you nothing extra on top of your ordinary hosting and domain name fees, so any upcharges for email are always deceptive.
Linode is an excellent option. I pay $7/mo for a virtual host with regular backups, and I can do anything I want with it. They have handy configuration scripts to save you time on most common setups, including your standard HTTPS+email configurations.
Some domain registrars provide free email forwarding to your existing personal email address.
I take that also into consideration when considering where to buy domain names, because having this offering eliminated several problems:
Google Domains is one example.
I do not like email forwarding, but yes that is an option.
With Google Domains's email forwarding you can send from it using Gmail.
Good article. Right before I saw this post, I was doing a little research on web hosting and domain purchasing.
I was checking out godaddy.com but they're prices doesn't match my budget and it's a little confusing.
I need something custom and I know for sure those things doesnt come free so you gotta put a lil something.
Thanks for sharing this article✊🏾
If you don't expect a lot of traffic I have found VERCEL to be super easy to integrate with Github. This of course does not have email though. You'd need something separate for that.
Vercel is legit. I've thoroughly enjoyed using them for years now.
Some reference numbers would be nice, fx. 5USD a month + domain price, can be done with a lot of Virtual server services. :)
Heck, got an old computer? Find a provider offering DDNS, then we are down to power cost + domain.
A raspberrie pi + a cache like cloud flare for scaling can get you quite far. :)
Reference numbers are difficult to stitch together, but all of what I mentioned is pretty free. Even free for the domain you select.
vercel heroku netlify firebase github pages is your best friend honorable mention wordpress , ghost, etc
yandex mail is also free as an alternative to zoho.
That sentence got something mixed up, not sure why, it happened several times in the article when editing