What's the cheapest/easiest option for hosting a static website (with SSL, obvs)?
I already own the domain and have DNS/email managed and don't really want to shift that.
All I find include domain/email/wordpress/... which I don't need, nor want to pay for?
@larsmb GitHub Pages afaik.
@larsmb personally I use the smallest Hetzner Cloudinstance, installed nginx and certbot for ACME. Deploy via rsync. Cost me around 5 bucks each month, according to my tests can handle ~ 1k req/s.
@hikhvar Yeah, that's the alternative, I am cheap, I was trying to see if there was something even smaller
@larsmb if you go the asshole route. Uberspace with minimal amount which is not cost neutral for them.
@hikhvar I should have specified that I don't want GitHub - while I might end up hosting my source on GH, I don't want to tie myself to it necessarily, and Jekyll can go fuck right off.
@larsmb GitHub Pages and GitLab Pages both let you set a custom domain, and support ACME cert management. Codeberg Pages can do the former but not the latter, I THINK.
@xahteiwi I still have GH trauma from experiencing Jekyll, maybe I do need to get over it.
@toke Thanks! Useful to know.
@johanneskastl @larsmb Yeah, that's a good option. You can host the website in a repository somewhere and then deploy using a pipeline on commit.
@johanneskastl Yeah, as for the static site generator, I'll be going with Zola.
The day I touch Jekyll again out of my own free will I'll be seeking therapy, I really wasn't a fan
@larsmb Fortunately there are lots of them, so I daresay you will find one that fits your needs ..
@larsmb IONOS offers a VPS for two bucks a month if you don't mind running the webserver yourself
@larsmb I have mine hosted on a 5€ a months vps. For static files over nginx it works great. But it requires some fiddeling with certbot to get HTTPS running.