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The biggest costs are not the money, but the work and cognitive load of the thousand cuts it takes to not only bring all of this up, but keep it running, not to
by forgotmypw17 19d ago
The biggest costs are not the money, but the work and cognitive load of the thousand cuts it takes to not only bring all of this up, but keep it running, not to mention migrating the content.
However/also, "only" $12 to some is a considerable amount of money to others.
- Onawa 19d agoIf its a static or client-side website, GitHub Pages is free and allows you to use whatever domain you have already own. Almost all of the websites I run are hosted on GitHub Pages. No maintenance required, and updates are as easy as `git push`.
- forgotmypw17 18d agoHaving done this for multiple sites, there's still a lot of friction and gotchas in the setup process, and it's also not guaranteed to not break/rot (e.g. have to renew the domain.) You didn't use the word "just", but I still want to link this article: https://alistapart.com/blog/post/the-most-dangerous-word-in-software-development/ https://alistapart.com/blog/post/the-most-dangerous-word-in-...