So far I've used just Github pages and Netlify, tho I've heard of other alternatives like Firebase, Vercel, Google Cloud Storage, Surge and Render.
Where do you host your static sites and why?
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DigitalOcean recently added Netlify like App hosting - you just point it at a repo and it does the rest. Static Sites are free and other things that need a server process running (node apps, etc.) require a mini droplet type purchase. The one project I tested like this they put me on an "XS" plan that was like $5-6 / month.
Personally I use Netlify / Vercel though for just about everything.
Hey! Could you send me the link for the digital ocean hosting? I didn't know DO had a free service. Really interested to see what they offer
Yeah no problem. It's currently in beta, but it's seems pretty nice already.
digitalocean.com/docs/app-platform/
Have a look at ionos.com/hosting/deploy-now and subscribe for free. You can find more details here: docs.ionos.space/
Thanks for sharing! πβ€
Personal: Vercel because it has an extremely generous free tier that I would never need more than.
Business: AWS S3 because AWS is my cloud provider of choice and you should always stick to knowing one cloud provider IMO.
Feature lists on free tier plans are def one of my main concerns, will take a look at Vercel for sure π
Is there any free host for Business static website, Just curious ?
No. You can probably get some like startup discounts but most companies choose to profit from businesses and lose money from individuals because the businesses will spend a lot more than any individual will which will make up for the loss and some. Also getting more people to use a service and have experience means more businesses will use those tools which just means more profits for them.
I host my personal site adi.tilde.institute on tilde.institute/. This is a great free service that gives full ssh access to an OpenBSD machine. My bloat-free, nojs static site generator mkws(1) is hosted on openbsd.amsterdam/. For a VPS solution I would also recommend tinykvm.com/. I don't use it, but I think Netlify is cool.
Never heard of tilde.institute before. π
Thanks for the recommendation, def will check it out! π
GitHub Pages, I wrote about it but to put it short I use Publish and GitHub publishing is baked in.
I used to self-host my websites on a dell optiplex fx160 (following this post's recommendations), but I don't have a stable enough access to internet to still use it.
So I moved all my websites to alwaysdata, it's a cool little hosting company and the prices are low with the student discount :)
edit: the website is now on the fx160!
Mine is on Vercel. Well, it's free forever for what I need.
Amazing!
I β€οΈ Vercel. I've been using them for quite some time and I love their product.
Did you try Netlify or other services before? If so, why did you prefer Vercel? π
I've been using Vercel since they were Zeit. I didn't know about Netlify until about a year ago.
The thing that made me want to use Zeit was it's simplicity: type
nowin your terminal to deploy your website. So simple in it's implementation yet so powerful!They're also the people behind Next.js, which is a React-based framework that I absolutely love using.
I believe Next.js holds great future potential π₯π₯
Generally, I host my static websites on Netlify it is nice and quite easy for the folders present in the root of the repo. Actually I wanted to know how to host the monorepos(A GitHub Repo consisting of more than one folder and each folder consisting of static websites and being hosted) I even went through the documentation but I couldn't do so if anyone did it before or any link to do so with better examples please do comment
I wrote about this here. I am hosting my Hugo-generated static site on Github pages and loving the process. It's free, even with a custom domain, and I have no complaints.
Amplify. It's nifty. A few thoughts of mine to kindly share: it brings a CI/CD pipeline to the table; Amplify gives the static files to CloudFront, which is like a CDN, to host; and Amplify simplifies the auto-configuration of SSL and DNS. π
Started out with Netlify. My account was suspended, not sure why. Tried NeoCities. It was OK but I couldn't use a custom domain name with it (for free). Tried static hosting on Python Anywhere. It's possible to do, but I couldn't get it working. Ended up at Github Pages. It was only logical to host eval-pelican on GHpages since the entire project is a Git Hub public repository. FWIW: eval-pelican was a web site I created to evaluate the Pelican static site generator. It turned into a tutorial.
AWS S3
I've heard a lot of great stuff on it π
What about the learning curve on S3? π
I have been putting a lot of my static sites on render. It's free and you're able to attach a subdomain with a cert. That is something that isn't very common.
That feature could come in handy in many cases, agree ππ
The best I've found is a dedicated simple Ubuntu server at scaleway.com/en/dedibox/ the price tag starts just below 10β¬ a month,
Otherwise a home server with a good internet landline like an optic fiber but even less than that is often sufficient, and a tiny raspberry (~35β¬) or a Jetson Nano (110β¬) would do the trick, with a SSD.
A little work, but you get full control of what's going on ππ₯