I’m looking to host a website for an organisation I run. I’m very familiar with WordPress and somewhat familiar with Drupal, but am highly technical and can learn other technologies. I do feel that a WordPress-type crm might be overkill, as I am not looking for user interaction on the site. I’m good with html, js, and css, so would not be opposed to a barebones provider.
Basically, who is everyone using, and what considerations went into that decision?
I have crossposted this question on .ml, as well, but can’t properly link each on the other.
If you want to have a static site, you can do all of this for free through Cloudflare. Has full GitHub integration so that you can commit a change, and Cloudflare will run whatever build step is necessary from your framework (e.g. Hugo, 11ty, etc) and deploy it for you. No need to pay for a host if this is what you want.
If it doesn’t need a backend you can just host it on github/cloudflare pages, easy and free forever
If you don’t need a backend, you can just host it in s3
Opalstack. Simple to configure. Great support.
i use nearlyfreespeech.net for registrar and small-site hosting. its incredibly cheap, pay for what you need etc.
i use amazon AWS for anything that needs professional-level services including SMTP and ‘account handoff’ capability if i need to walk away and hand it to someone else.
I use tilde.club to host my website and gemini capsule. It’s awersome I don’t have to think about managing the server since it’s done by the staff of tilde.club
That’s a really cool space for hobbies and such, and I will totally use this! For this particular project, though, I need proper tld and hosting service. Doesn’t have to be a .com, per se.
I mostly use AWS. I have about five different accounts going and I delete/remake them each time the free tier runs out.
Can you somehow migrate the stuff from the old account to the new one?
I keep local backups of everything, so restoring the files is trivial. In the git repo, I have instructions on how to set things up: what packages to install, where to place certain config files and what to put in them. You could use containers to make it even easier, but I haven’t found the need for it yet.
This post will probably get taken down, it doesn’t belong to AskLemmy. You might want !selfhosted@lemmy.world or one of the programming communities like !webdev@programming.dev.
That said, it’s fairly easy to just rent out a cheap VPS for like $5 to get started, get NGINX, MariaDB and PHP running on it and then install Wordpress or Drupal.
I personally would wait for the Wordpress drama to settle before commiting to that platform.
The problem with hosting services dedicated to say, Wordpress, is the lack of control. If you need other apps to run you have to pay for another service, whereas your own VPS/server you can do whatever you want. Need ElasticSearch for something else? Sure, no problem, as long as the server is big enough.
Didn’t know about !webdev@programming.dev thanks!
I thought about asking !selfhosted@lemmy.world, but didn’t feel it fully fit there, since I’m not specifically asking about self-hosted service or app, but, instead, about a standard .com (or whatever tld).
I checked the rules for ask Lemmy, and didn’t see anything that would suggest that this question wouldn’t fit, but I would also understand if it didn’t fully fit under the “open discussion question” rule. Basically, I completely understand and don’t hold it against the mods if it were to be taken down haha
The vps solution might be where I end up. But $5 vps? Which ones are those?
I like Alwyzon. They’re in Austria and I’m in North America, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Somehow their servers are always so much quicker to respond than others.
My blog is currently a static Hugo site hosted on my free Github Pages site.
So it’s powered by two github repos in practice. One is the uncompiled huge source which has a build pipeline that automatically does a build and pushes it to the Github.io/Pages repo.
My personal website is just a static website, built using Hugo and served using Caddy. Originally it was hosted on a Digital Ocean VPS but now it’s hosted from my home.
My needs were simple enough that even that much is probably overkill though. Honestly I just wanted something that I could understand completely how it works and be able to update it easily as life went on.
I use phpwebhosting.com and have since I left angelfire in… 2001? PHP and mySQL support, a decent amount of customization, unmetered bandwidth, and unlimited subdomains.
GitHub, when needing php lima-city, GitHub doesn’t support that (both of these are free :D)
I moved from TransIP to Hetzner. TransIP started costing me more than €40 for 2vCPU + 4GB RAM + 1.25TB extra storage. While this same product only cost me €23 years ago. So I decided to move to Hetzner because I could get a 2vCPU + 8GB + 1TB extra storage for only €21. Plus it also allows Tor bridge nodes, which was a must for me. After doing benchmarks to see if the Hetzner server wasn’t shit, I came to the conclusion that it was almost 5 times faster. Awesome. I don’t have too much experience with them yet, but on first glance I’m very happy.
Regarding software, I run Docker containers with different software. But the main service I’m running is a self made PHP website/webapp. I also use Grav for a blog, but I’m not too happy with it because I think it’s convoluted.
My personal website is made using Hugo, sitting behind Caddy, and hosted on Racknerd. I see elsewhere in the thread that you’re looking for something akin to a $5/month VPS, but racknerd is MUCH cheaper for much more vCPU + vRAM (older hardware, but that’s not a deal breaker for hosting a static website).
I used to do $6/Month on Digital Ocean for 1 vCPU + 1GB vRAM + 1TB bandwidth, but now I’m somewhere like $3/Month for 2 vCPU + 2.5GB vRAM + 5TB bandwidth [1]. In fact, I paid $6 extra to have the server in France. Otherwise it’s $30 a year.
Check out racknerd tracker [2]. I found out about it through lemmy many months ago [3]. The person who made the website gets some affiliate stuff.
[1] https://racknerdtracker.com/?product=211%2F25gb-kvm-vps