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Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a

Anyone know how a way to run a personal site for around $50 USD or under a year that can be pointed to a custom domain? My wife does some rug making and wants a portfolio available to show off her art, but we would prefer not to pay $10-20/month for such a site.

5amdotis 4y ago
A static website could easily be hosted on GitHub, Cloudflare, or Netlify for free. Only cost is the domain name and maybe an email provider.
mateomorris 4y ago
primo.so (FOSS)
terminal_d 4y ago
If all you need is a static website, you can do it for under $10/year if you use AWS S3. Alternatively, Cloudflare pages is free.
- croisillon 4y ago
  All your comments seem to be flagged by default, please reach an admin to clear that up
  - terminal_d 4y ago
    Thanks for the heads up, I contacted them via email. Turns out my account was flagged automatically and the ban's been lifted now.
    - croisillon 4y ago
      nice
mxuribe 4y ago
Review hosting providers on the folloiwing site: https://www.lowcostwebhostings.com/ https://www.lowcostwebhostings.com/ I use digital ocean, but their cost actualy rose a tad bit over the last year, and i have heard that hetzner has better pricing, though i have not yet used them. Again, just take a look at the above site, and can search for a low cost hosting provider. Others leverage github pages, etc...for free, but that seems antithetical to this greater topic of self-host your own. Good luck!
- nickthegreek 4y ago
  I hate how so many of these are 1 year at this pricing, and then balloon to $9+/mo.
walterbell 4y ago
Neocities ($5/mo), https://neocities.org/supporter https://neocities.org/supporter
inasmuch 4y ago
I run my mom’s portfolio site through porkbun.com. $10/yr domain + $3/mo hosting = $46. I used to use nearlyfreespeech.net for my own site and it was even cheaper, but a little more complicated to get up and running.
sodimel 4y ago
Buying an old refubished computer and running whatever web server on a small & efficient linux distro is not really cheap in the beginning (since you've got to spend a few $ to buy the computer that will be a small home server), but in the long term it's really cheap (I spent 50€ in 2017 for an old dell optiplex fx160 on ebay, and it's still running my websites today).
- jwilk 4y ago
  How much do you pay for electricity?
preommr 4y ago
$50 ??? If you're slightly technical that should be $1/year for hosting + $10 for domain name registration. I don't know what the best way is now, but a few years ago I set up an s3 bucket that where I basically got charged nothing because the site was < 10mb, and I had that behind cloudflare's cdn which doesn't charge for bandwith. S3 lets you serve static files if the bucket name is the same as the domain name - so no webserver or anything needed. I am pretty sure for a very small static site there's probably a handful of options that are basically free. One of gitpages, cloudflare pages, I think have free bandwith, not sure about vercel, or netlify.
- nickthegreek 4y ago
  The $50 is because I dont want to have to get a cheap vps and maintain everything. I want to be able to load up a custom theme in some CMS and give her the login credentials.
treesknees 4y ago
I've had excellent results with pointing people to Google Sites. The editor and available features work really well for just a static site for someone non-technical. You can set it up on a free Google account and point a custom domain name to it [1] very easily. [1] https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en
- nickthegreek 4y ago
  > https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en I maintain several google sites for my job, dont know why I didn't think of this route!
a9h74j 4y ago
Check out fastmail.com ... Given an email account, hosting a new website is nearly as easy as uploading an entire directory (to file storage) in one operation, then assigning a url to it (under one of the 20-30 fastmail domains). I have not linked a custom domain to one of these, but they do IIRC support it. Estimate $3/month w/o the custom domain.
2b3a51 4y ago
Over here in the UK companies like mythic-beasts would provide what you are asking about. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting You would add your CMS of choice (Wordpress running on the shared server or rsync up a local set of static files) I'm assuming companies like this must be ten a penny in USA.
renewiltord 4y ago
Fastest way if you want CMS stuff integrated is wordpress.com on the Personal plan. But if you're okay with a git style flow, then you can use Cloudflare Pages. That's what I use. It's free and fast. But it's not spouse-friendly.

5amdotis 4y ago

A static website could easily be hosted on GitHub, Cloudflare, or Netlify for free. Only cost is the domain name and maybe an email provider.

mateomorris 4y ago

primo.so (FOSS)

terminal_d 4y ago

If all you need is a static website, you can do it for under $10/year if you use AWS S3. Alternatively, Cloudflare pages is free.

croisillon 4y ago
All your comments seem to be flagged by default, please reach an admin to clear that up
- terminal_d 4y ago
  Thanks for the heads up, I contacted them via email. Turns out my account was flagged automatically and the ban's been lifted now.
  - croisillon 4y ago
    nice

mxuribe 4y ago

Review hosting providers on the folloiwing site: https://www.lowcostwebhostings.com/ https://www.lowcostwebhostings.com/ I use digital ocean, but their cost actualy rose a tad bit over the last year, and i have heard that hetzner has better pricing, though i have not yet used them. Again, just take a look at the above site, and can search for a low cost hosting provider. Others leverage github pages, etc...for free, but that seems antithetical to this greater topic of self-host your own. Good luck!

nickthegreek 4y ago
I hate how so many of these are 1 year at this pricing, and then balloon to $9+/mo.

walterbell 4y ago

Neocities ($5/mo), https://neocities.org/supporter https://neocities.org/supporter

inasmuch 4y ago

I run my mom’s portfolio site through porkbun.com. $10/yr domain + $3/mo hosting = $46. I used to use nearlyfreespeech.net for my own site and it was even cheaper, but a little more complicated to get up and running.

sodimel 4y ago

Buying an old refubished computer and running whatever web server on a small & efficient linux distro is not really cheap in the beginning (since you've got to spend a few $ to buy the computer that will be a small home server), but in the long term it's really cheap (I spent 50€ in 2017 for an old dell optiplex fx160 on ebay, and it's still running my websites today).

jwilk 4y ago
How much do you pay for electricity?

preommr 4y ago

$50 ??? If you're slightly technical that should be $1/year for hosting + $10 for domain name registration. I don't know what the best way is now, but a few years ago I set up an s3 bucket that where I basically got charged nothing because the site was < 10mb, and I had that behind cloudflare's cdn which doesn't charge for bandwith. S3 lets you serve static files if the bucket name is the same as the domain name - so no webserver or anything needed. I am pretty sure for a very small static site there's probably a handful of options that are basically free. One of gitpages, cloudflare pages, I think have free bandwith, not sure about vercel, or netlify.

nickthegreek 4y ago
The $50 is because I dont want to have to get a cheap vps and maintain everything. I want to be able to load up a custom theme in some CMS and give her the login credentials.

treesknees 4y ago

I've had excellent results with pointing people to Google Sites. The editor and available features work really well for just a static site for someone non-technical. You can set it up on a free Google account and point a custom domain name to it [1] very easily. [1] https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en

nickthegreek 4y ago
> https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en https://support.google.com/sites/answer/9068867?hl=en I maintain several google sites for my job, dont know why I didn't think of this route!

a9h74j 4y ago

Check out fastmail.com ... Given an email account, hosting a new website is nearly as easy as uploading an entire directory (to file storage) in one operation, then assigning a url to it (under one of the 20-30 fastmail domains). I have not linked a custom domain to one of these, but they do IIRC support it. Estimate $3/month w/o the custom domain.

2b3a51 4y ago

Over here in the UK companies like mythic-beasts would provide what you are asking about. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting https://www.mythic-beasts.com/hosting You would add your CMS of choice (Wordpress running on the shared server or rsync up a local set of static files) I'm assuming companies like this must be ten a penny in USA.

renewiltord 4y ago

Fastest way if you want CMS stuff integrated is wordpress.com on the Personal plan. But if you're okay with a git style flow, then you can use Cloudflare Pages. That's what I use. It's free and fast. But it's not spouse-friendly.