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Follow-up: Does anyone know how to best host this site? a) with less than 50 users all-time b) easily updated daily (blog-style) by a 7 year old c) is approxima

Follow-up: Does anyone know how to best host this site? a) with less than 50 users all-time b) easily updated daily (blog-style) by a 7 year old c) is approximately free Wordpress with her custom theme seems to fail C. Github pages / Jekyll is failing B

pazimzadeh 11y ago
Not free, but relatively cheap: https://www.site44.com https://www.site44.com
Rifu 11y ago
A quick look through wordpress' offerings shows some nice plans for hosting that shouldn't be too expensive [0] [0] https://wordpress.org/hosting/ https://wordpress.org/hosting/
paulcole 11y ago
NearlyFreeSpeech can host a wordpress site with low traffic for little more than a penny a day.
- unknownknowns 11y ago
  Was going to comment this. Used NFS years ago and was incredibly happy with them, they're fantastic.
  - paulcole 11y ago
    Yeah, I have a handful of low-traffic sites with them and it's fantastic. For a little more functionality, I like ASmallOrange. My partner hosts her site/blog with them for $35/year and it's great, too.
danso 11y ago
I responded to you on Twitter but I would go for Tumblr. Easy to maintain, and makes it very easy to publish media-heavy posts...which, even if your daughter is the next J.K. Rowling in terms of enthusiasm for the written word, Tumblr hits the right mix of decent flexibility and dead simple UI. I maintained my own Wordpress site but ended up posting much more frequently to Tumblr. I now am basically 100% Jekyll and Middleman...but having tried teaching Github Pages to college students...I'm skeptical that it's easy enough for a child to hack around with and get the same amount of enjoyment and productivity that she would out of Tumblr or WordPress. (Apparently Ghost is pretty good too but I've never tried it)
jonahx 11y ago
Seems like the perfect usecase for https://neocities.org/ https://neocities.org/
jlgaddis 11y ago
Shoot me an e-mail (cf. profile). I'd be happy to host it.
bluefinity 11y ago
I had a lot of fun when I was younger with websites on https://byethost.com/index.php/free-hosting https://byethost.com/index.php/free-hosting, but no idea what they're like nowdays. Worth a look, in any case.
AndrewDucker 11y ago
Tumblr is great for making posts. Livejournal is still the best for writing posts and having discussions on. Takes no effort to keep going, and has threaded comments, supports images and videos, and basically just works: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ (for an example)
olalonde 11y ago
http://prose.io/ http://prose.io/ might fit the bill though I'm not sure it's usable by a 7 year old.

pazimzadeh 11y ago

Not free, but relatively cheap: https://www.site44.com https://www.site44.com

Rifu 11y ago

A quick look through wordpress' offerings shows some nice plans for hosting that shouldn't be too expensive [0] [0] https://wordpress.org/hosting/ https://wordpress.org/hosting/

paulcole 11y ago

NearlyFreeSpeech can host a wordpress site with low traffic for little more than a penny a day.

unknownknowns 11y ago
Was going to comment this. Used NFS years ago and was incredibly happy with them, they're fantastic.
- paulcole 11y ago
  Yeah, I have a handful of low-traffic sites with them and it's fantastic. For a little more functionality, I like ASmallOrange. My partner hosts her site/blog with them for $35/year and it's great, too.

danso 11y ago

I responded to you on Twitter but I would go for Tumblr. Easy to maintain, and makes it very easy to publish media-heavy posts...which, even if your daughter is the next J.K. Rowling in terms of enthusiasm for the written word, Tumblr hits the right mix of decent flexibility and dead simple UI. I maintained my own Wordpress site but ended up posting much more frequently to Tumblr. I now am basically 100% Jekyll and Middleman...but having tried teaching Github Pages to college students...I'm skeptical that it's easy enough for a child to hack around with and get the same amount of enjoyment and productivity that she would out of Tumblr or WordPress. (Apparently Ghost is pretty good too but I've never tried it)

jonahx 11y ago

Seems like the perfect usecase for https://neocities.org/ https://neocities.org/

jlgaddis 11y ago

Shoot me an e-mail (cf. profile). I'd be happy to host it.

bluefinity 11y ago

I had a lot of fun when I was younger with websites on https://byethost.com/index.php/free-hosting https://byethost.com/index.php/free-hosting, but no idea what they're like nowdays. Worth a look, in any case.

AndrewDucker 11y ago

Tumblr is great for making posts. Livejournal is still the best for writing posts and having discussions on. Takes no effort to keep going, and has threaded comments, supports images and videos, and basically just works: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ (for an example)

olalonde 11y ago

http://prose.io/ http://prose.io/ might fit the bill though I'm not sure it's usable by a 7 year old.