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Nowadays this type of static site is insanely cheap to host. Put a CDN like CloudFlare (which it seems they are using) in front of this type of site and you cou

Nowadays this type of static site is insanely cheap to host. Put a CDN like CloudFlare (which it seems they are using) in front of this type of site and you could scale to millions of hits basically for free.

chpatrick 2y ago
Or just put it on Cloudflare pages.
- ipaddr 2y ago
  Why so 1/4 of the internet can't access your site.
  - dgfitz 2y ago
    I think that is true regardless.
  - geuis 2y ago
    Your comment isn't specifying what 25% doesn't have access. If you mean China being 1/4 the current human population that could be true you need to be more specific.
allset_ 2y ago
Which is why Neocities has a free tier which doesn't even have ads.
e12e 2y ago
> For example, we figured out how to run our own global anycast network for "cheap". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445618 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13445618 > With this launch, and our recently deployed 11-datacenter global anycast caching CDN, Neocities becomes a world-class web hosting service, proving you can still make building a web site fun and easy without sacrificing performance, and without being forced to figure out how to use esoteric, expensive cloud services. https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increase https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2017/03/26/huge-space-increa... https://status.neocities.org/ https://status.neocities.org/