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Ask HN: Static hosting for $1/m.

1 points by sdsk8 13y ago

I'm thinking about it sometime, i'll try to launch a service of static shared web hosting starting at 1$/m or 5$/y, it will support integration with: google drive skydrive dropbox box.com github bitbucket amazon and other dummy services like ftp,sftp,git.svn.... My question is, there is a market for that? Thanks

minimaxir 13y ago
No, because there are enough services that allow for $0/m static hosting.
- citruspi 13y ago
  Sure, but I'm not expecting much from a free service in terms of uptime. I wouldn't expect much more from a $1/month service, but I would expect better service.
  - minimaxir 13y ago
    GitHub Pages and AWS Free Tier are both effectively $0/month services with near 100% uptime.
    - sdsk8 13y ago
      i'm building it with easy of use on mind, A totally clean interface, easy integration tools. And of course, it will be focused on stability, your site will run on many servers with redundancy and user managed cache of nearly everything
- sdsk8 13y ago
  Can you trust your data on free services? With a service like that, you are protected by consumer laws and a service license, when you access your website your data will be there, and being well served!
eli 13y ago
Seems like a decent idea IF you can make it real easy for me. Right now I host my website on S3. I would probably prioritize hooking into services that (unlike github) don't already have a built-in free way of hosting a site :) And be careful you don't fall into the "unlimited hosting for a fixed price" trap. Didn't there used to be a 3rd party Dropbox app that published a folder as a website? (Not the "Public" folder which, I suppose, is another option for some people).
- thekingshorses 13y ago
  How do you gzip your content hosted on S3?
  - eli 13y ago
    Easy: I don't :) You might be able to do it by generating the gzipped versions yourself and putting CloudFront in front of you site, but I haven't tried. You could definitely do it with Cloud Flare. If you don't care about ancient browsers and bots that don't understand gzip, you could pretty easily just have gzip-only versions of everything.

1 points by sdsk8 13y ago

minimaxir 13y ago

No, because there are enough services that allow for $0/m static hosting.

citruspi 13y ago
Sure, but I'm not expecting much from a free service in terms of uptime. I wouldn't expect much more from a $1/month service, but I would expect better service.
- minimaxir 13y ago
  GitHub Pages and AWS Free Tier are both effectively $0/month services with near 100% uptime.
  - sdsk8 13y ago
    i'm building it with easy of use on mind, A totally clean interface, easy integration tools. And of course, it will be focused on stability, your site will run on many servers with redundancy and user managed cache of nearly everything
sdsk8 13y ago
Can you trust your data on free services? With a service like that, you are protected by consumer laws and a service license, when you access your website your data will be there, and being well served!

eli 13y ago

Seems like a decent idea IF you can make it real easy for me. Right now I host my website on S3. I would probably prioritize hooking into services that (unlike github) don't already have a built-in free way of hosting a site :) And be careful you don't fall into the "unlimited hosting for a fixed price" trap. Didn't there used to be a 3rd party Dropbox app that published a folder as a website? (Not the "Public" folder which, I suppose, is another option for some people).

thekingshorses 13y ago
How do you gzip your content hosted on S3?
- eli 13y ago
  Easy: I don't :) You might be able to do it by generating the gzipped versions yourself and putting CloudFront in front of you site, but I haven't tried. You could definitely do it with Cloud Flare. If you don't care about ancient browsers and bots that don't understand gzip, you could pretty easily just have gzip-only versions of everything.