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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷

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 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.

@larsmb @xahteiwi you are not bound to Jekyll anymore when using GitHub pages. GitHub Actions allow you to use any renderer you want.

@larsmb #Hugo or #Jekyll or any other static site generator. Small VM to host it in.

I believe #IONOS has really small instances for 1€/month.

#Netcup or #Hetzner have some small and cheap ones too.

@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.