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.
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.
This is the true power of the cloud.
Free trials for life.
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.
I use wix.com
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.
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.
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.
