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Cheapest way to put up a very basic website?

804 sats \ 21 comments \ @Signal312 18 Mar devs

I know a couple nonprofits that need a very basic website. More like a business card online.

What's the cheapest way of doing this? Ideally something that has a fairly easy interface, good for non web-developers (like Weebly or something) but cheap is more important.

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224 sats \ 2 replies \ @beorange 18 Mar

Github Pages
Gitlab Pages
Cloudflare Pages

All of them offer free static website hosting with support for custom domains. You can use Hugo, Jekyll, Pellican, Gatsby, or whatever static site generator you prefer.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 19 Mar

Looks really interesting, thanks. They definitely don't appear to package "free static website hosting" as a package. I guess you have to dig around the sites, and figure out how to do it?

171 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 19 Mar freebie

Cheap. Easy. Quality.

Pick two

Cheap/easy (not quality): a Facebook page

Easy/quality (not cheap): wix, squarespace, etc.

Cheap/quality (not easy): https://pages.github.com/ or self hosting in general.

Watch this tutorial on GH pages to decide if its right for you.

You can find tons of free html templates online and make a few edits to customize the text and photos, then upload to Github.

54 sats \ 3 replies \ @dillon 19 Mar

Vercell has a free tier if you can code

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Signal312 OP 19 Mar

Thanks. What level of coding are we talking about?

54 sats \ 1 reply \ @dillon 19 Mar

Just the ability to throw together a frontend website using a framework like react or angular. Idk if you can do plain HTML pages on vercel but if you're gonna do that just use github pages

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NoStranger 22 Mar

If your project is Open source you can also have an higher limit for free.

Not only for static pages, but their serverless functions too.

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @oraltosun 19 Mar

Try "Carrd" website builder. Unlimited bandwith Unlimited storage Nice looking websites (clean and neat)

34 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 18 Mar

Is weebly expensive?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 OP 19 Mar freebie

Weebly isn't as cheap as I had thought it would be. I spent about $150 for a year, paid in advance.

Also the CONSTANT upsell is annoying.

34 sats \ 0 replies \ @AJ1992 18 Mar

Wordpress or wix would be my first two guesses. Or GoDaddy?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xIlmari 22 Mar

It's a no-API "static" website? I can recommend AWS:

Put the website files in an S3 bucket.
Set up a CloudFront distribution on front of it (cheaper and faster than to serve from S3 directly).

Easy to do, AWS has instructions in their own documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/getting-started-cloudfront-overview.html

The only real cost you incur will be CloudFront itself. You can estimate it yourself based on anticipated traffic: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @duvel 19 Mar

Using Github and Netlify.

Create a free account on Github and create your website in HTML, CSS and/or JavaScript. Add those file to Github by committing those files and pushing it to Github.

Create a free Netlify account. Once those file are on Github you can connect your Github account to your Netlify account. Once it's connected it will automatically deploy it on a random url, but you can give a custom name. Your url will be: https://<your-custom-name>.netlify.app

Every time you make a change to the website and push it to Github, Netlify will put the changes online.

At this point you have zero costs.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTC_DCAGUY_SIIM 19 Mar

Consider only wordpress and add a domain. Best for seo and easy to use. Many free & paid plugins etc.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @moel 19 Mar

Most easy way that requires no programming or IT skills I know of is https://www.blot.im

It’s $4 per month 👍

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @expatriotic 19 Mar

I used Wix and liked it. Paid to not have ads though. I use google.sites for school things, assignments where I need to make a website, because it's free.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @spraveenitpro 19 Mar

WordPress.com

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jeff 19 Mar

Gcp or s3 bucket. If you name them correctly, google/amazon handle the glue.

Drag and drop html.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DudeJLebowski 19 Mar

I use Wix mainly for very simple sites, or for something more complex, Tilda is good once you get used to it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 19 Mar freebie

github pages static website, free.

Here's how to add a custom domain to it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nickfostphone 19 Mar freebie

Shared web host like Bluehost

Or you can get a cheap VPS and configure it all yourself, and you’ll have to increase the size of your VPS the more you use it.

Shared hosting like Bluehost is super cheap