I’m looking to host a website for an organisation I run. I’m very familiar with WordPress and somewhat familiar with Drupal, but am highly technical and can learn other technologies. I do feel that a WordPress-type crm might be overkill, as I am not looking for user interaction on the site. I’m good with html, js, and css, so would not be opposed to a barebones provider.
Basically, who is everyone using, and what considerations went into that decision?
I have crossposted this question on .ml, as well, but can’t properly link each on the other.
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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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.
If it doesn’t need a backend you can just host it on github/cloudflare pages, easy and free forever
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.
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
Opalstack. Simple to configure. Great support.
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.
I use A2 hosting for domain and service and then edit the website through ghost
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
