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Stuff like this is why I usually set my smallest clients up with a static html generator. (At least if they don't want comments, and then we consider Disqus be
by keenerd 13y ago
Stuff like this is why I usually set my smallest clients up with a static html generator. (At least if they don't want comments, and then we consider Disqus before wordpress.)
It is really hard to have vulerabilities with static html. Similarly, hosting these costs nothing. Usually in the ballpark of $3/year, the DNS alone is the dominate cost. And if they do get a sudden inrush of traffic, static hosts need to see a thousand times more load than stock wordpress before they fall down.
Come to think of it, I've never had a client that was the correct size for Wordpress. They were either way too small or way too large.
- learc83 13y agoClients left to their own devices can eventually destroy anything. I had a client who wanted a static site, but at the last minute decided they needed a "news" sidebar on every page that they could update. This was before any of the off the shelf solutions existed (to mixing static and dynamic content), so I wrote some javascript (before jquery made ajax easy) that grabbed the content from a flat file. Long story short, a few years later, they had someone on staff who knew some html, and they basically turned that tiny sidebar from a div displaying 2 or 3 paragraphs of text into an entire website--complete with oversized videos, rotating image headers, and dozens of links.
- nateguchi 13y agoI'd love to see this!
- noahsark769 13y agoJust wondering, where do you get static hosting for $3 a year?
- vamega 13y agoAmazon S3, could probably host a static site for around this price.
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- c16 13y agoI host my personal website on relichost.net, it's £6/year but for my one page 'about me' and some simple email it's more than enough. Also I hadn't thought of S3 - that's a good shout.
- addandsubtract 13y agoThere's also https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ which offers static site hosting for $0.01 per mb/month
- keenerd 13y agoSpot on. These are the guys I use, they are great. The transfer rate is $1/GB. If you don't have many pictures and serve pre-gzipped html/css/js (needs a custom .htaccess) the bill can be very low.