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I just launched a site on Squarespace - $25 a month for a basic landing page.

• avree 2y ago
  That seems about right? I use Netlify to deploy my own 11ty static site, and it costs $19/month, plus there's no WYSIWYG editor like Squarespace.
  • dewey 2y ago
    What’s the reason for doing that? Can’t you host a static page for 5 dollars basically everywhere? Even on expensive AWS it’s 5 dollars: https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
    • gruez 2y ago
      lightsail is basically the lowest tier of AWS offerings. It's designed to compete with providers like linode or digitalocean, not gcp or azure. Moreover, lightsail is IaaS - you get a vps that you have to set up and administer yourself. Squarespace/Netlify is PaaS or SaaS - all that is handled for you. Maybe you think all of that isn't too hard and isn't worth the $14 or whatever premium, but it's still comparing apples to oranges.
  • ericd 2y ago
    Any reason to go that route over just making an S3 bucket publicly accessible and pointing dns at it? Should cost roughly $0/mo unless you’re getting massive amounts of traffic.
  • VHRanger 2y ago
    Cloudflare pages has been excellent for my 11ty site. The free tier is great, prices after that are reasonable. Also - there's a bunch of integrations with their other stuff (serverless, D1, etc.) You'll get more lock-in, but you can scale up the static site to become basically a full frontend-backend app from there.
• pixodaros 2y ago
  I run a Wordpress site that gets tens of GB of traffic per month for about half of that (hosting + domain name registration)
• Ekaros 2y ago
  I'm really unsure if that is unreasonable. We can do it for cheaper. But we are not the target market. For someone that would be buying a set up and even occasional updates and so on it is not that much money... That is what 300 a year? So not too many billed hours...