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Poll: Where do you host your static website?
Curious to know where the HN community hosts their static websites. If there's an option missing, leave a comment and I'll add it.
- oakaz 13y agoLinode + http://github.com/azer/door http://github.com/azer/door
- omgmog 13y agoI host http://blog.omgmog.net http://blog.omgmog.net on GitHub pages, but I also use Jekyll to generate a bunch of static websites that I serve with Apache from my VPS.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- neilk 13y agoDreamhost. Probably there are better options now, but I have the account.
- abeh 13y ago+1 here
- ryanglasgow 13y agoI've been using recently launched http://fjords.cc http://fjords.cc . Fjords paired with DNSimple.com has been a dream setup compared to what I previously used (Amazon S3 with Godaddy for domains).
- orangethirty 13y agoWebfaction++
- fakeer 13y agoI struggled to put up a static generator over there I failed, I tried everything I could. Of course they were helpful but asking them to enable this, enable that every time is plain painful. I also tried to setup ownCloud and didn't succed again. Finally I moved to vps and I set them up there with some difficulty and then I moved my static files back to Dropbox and left OwnCloud. It was too much trouble. WebFaction ought to give options to do one click install of static generators and other packages like OwnCloud.
- orangethirty 13y agoWhen was this?
- lardissone 13y agoEverblog.me
- kierank 13y agonearlyfreespeech.net
- gwern 13y agoI started with NFSN and then switched to S3 after a while.
- blairbeckwith 13y agoSame. Maybe this is evidence of how unpopular my site is, but I think I've paid a dollar or two over the last three years.
- JoachimSchipper 13y agoMe too.
- mng2 13y agoMe too. Large files are served from S3 though (using a CNAME).
- kierank 13y agoSame but css/javascript etc is hosted via Rackspace CDN (Akamai).
- darxius 13y agoI find Github to be the best option out there (the only thing I'd like to see is a method to leverage caching). Plus it allows you to make the website "open source" (which is the case for most of what I put up).
- danmaz74 13y agoPlease, add "Other shared hosting" - otherwise we would need thousands of options. I personally use servage.net
- vikrum 13y agoDone
- mvzink 13y ago(Since HN has been in golang hype-mode recently:) a 20-line Go web server that I probably wrote in about 5 minutes but I don't remember because it's still chugging away.
- einai 13y agoI tried Dreamhost for a year (for my non serious sites and just personal testing purposes) because people raved about it on Reddit, but it was disappointing. I tracked all my sites using uptimerobot.com and Dreamhost has less than 99.9% up time consistently. Just signed up for asmallorange.com...will see how it goes.
- chrisa 13y agobluehost.com - I don't remember why I chose them originally, but I have had my domains and hosting there for a while, and have been happy. I put a few sites on their lowest plan and they have "unlimited" space and bandwidth.
- jsonne 13y ago+1 for bluehost. I put my personal site on there and occasionally use it for other small projects. It's really good for what it is.
- larsberg 13y agoFastmail.fm They already provide my e-mail hosting (significantly better spam management than GMail, where about 20-30 were getting through per day) and static web hosting is included.
- ruffyen 13y agomarkuphive.com
- taytus 13y agoPagodabox.com
- wvps 13y agoA Small Orange
- rexreed 13y agoShared host - too many to name. All < $72/year
- drivebyacct2 13y agoOn a CDN? On S3? On NearlyFreeSpeech?
- speeder 13y agoI used a shared host.
- appplemac 13y agoSquarespace.
- fuzzywalrus 13y agoDreamhost - but I wouldn't recommend it
- fakeer 13y agoWhy so? For a shared hosting provider I've read around they are offering pretty good stuff. Anything specific?
- einai 13y agoI tried them for a year because of the great reviews on Reddit, but I was quite unhappy about it. Less than 99.9% up time monitored by uptimerobot.com. Some of my sites have less than 99.5% up time in fact. I'm monitoring some of my clients' sites on Siteground and they have better up time over there (>99.9%).
- Joeboy 13y agoManage my own Apache on a VDS provided by Other hosting provider.
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- tikhonj 13y agoI use a static site generator (Hakyll) and deploy directly to S3. It's a pretty awesome system. I also used to use CloudFront as a CDN. I gave up because invalidating the cache was a bit tedious. I should start using it again for the assets that usually don't change like fonts. It's really not difficult; it was just inconvenient because I was using it for things like text that I updated constantly.
- philip1209 13y agoI use Jekyll and deploy to S3 too - combining it with Cloudflare provides an easier partial-CDN and some tools like 301 redirects that S3 doesn't provide out of the box: http://www.brouhaha.io/practical-jekyll/ http://www.brouhaha.io/practical-jekyll/
- Smudge 13y agoI've considered hosting my assets on a separate domain (e.g. assets.mydomain.com) because, in theory, browsers will better be able to parallelize the downloads. It sounds like this same approach would make your CloudFront setup a bit easier to manage.
- korg250 13y agoAspnix
- whiddershins 13y agoBluehost, but I don't know why.
- egonschiele 13y agoLinode! But that's because I have a lot of other services running on my linode box. If I was hosting the site only I'd probably use github pages or heroku.
- paperwork 13y agoSurprised to see no one mentioned google cloud storage. Similar to s3, but with much lower latency.
- sondr3 13y agoHow does it work compared to S3/CloudFront? I've been using Jekyll and a VPS but wouldn't mind testing out something like this or S3 for it.
- paperwork 13y agoI initially deployed my website on s3 but latency was noticeable. google's cloud storage loads the site instantaneously. There are more tools available to upload to S3 but google cloud storage's web admin now provides a way to upload files now. In order to host a website on google storage, you need to jump through a couple of hoops (proving to google that you own the domain). My websites are static, single page apps so I leave them on "set it and forget it" mode. You can test ping times on my site if you like: http://fixparser.targetcompid.com http://fixparser.targetcompid.com http://datafa.me http://datafa.me
- kylelibra 13y agoMedia Temple.
- untothebreach 13y agoprgmr.com
- 300bps 13y agoI'm in the HN minority - I host everything on Microsoft Azure from standalone SQL Server databases to MVC web applications to Virtual Machines.
- voidlogic 13y agohttp://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/ http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/
- jeffasinger 13y agoI host a bunch of lower traffic static sites all on the same DigitalOcean droplet with nginx.
- russelluresti 13y agoWhat - no GoDaddy option?
- vikrum 13y agoI bucketed that with "With the domain registrar"... to include others, Register.com, etc.
- urlwolf 13y agoI use a static site generator (docpad) and deploy to github pages. I've had bad experiences with both, so I'm looking for alternatives. I have my own servers, but somehow I assumed for a homepage gh-pages would be best. I was wrong.
- dimzava 13y agoMiddleman + Amazon S3 + CloudFlare. Works great.
- tezza 13y agoI've been with https://www.blackfoot.co.uk/hosting/plan/ https://www.blackfoot.co.uk/hosting/plan/ for years. Decent affordable rates. It comes in quite useful for side-projects that may be a pain to set up on a VPS
- iracic 13y agoopenshift
- yin 13y agoOnepager - onepagerapp.com