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.
My fiction writing site (www.gorillarepublic.co) runs off of Grav. I wanted to go DB free, so flat file was big, wanted to avoid WP and Ghost, so this became it. It’s fast, light and works for me, thought it needed panel beating to where it is right now.
Grav looks awesome, by the way. Who is your hoster?
Thanks. I got a barebones VPS from Contabo.
As a long time Grav user I can confirm it it great
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.
Depending on the interactivity required from the website, you can use GitHub pages. I’ve hosted my personal portfolio site/blog on there for years with no issues.
It’s limited to HTML/CSS/JS but there are also GitHub Actions to take markdown pages and render them as HTML, keeping updating the site easy for everyone.
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.
000webhost, because I’ve been using them on and off for over 20 years and they’re good enough for my needs.
I used to use them, too, and they were my first checkin, but they closed as of June-2024.
Ah shit I just used them last year. Sad to see them shut down their free service. They were honestly among the best free web hosts.
I agree. I’ve used them for so many side projects over the years, one of which I upgraded to their paid.
I use wix.com
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.
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.
I use A2 hosting for domain and service and then edit the website through ghost
Hetzner is my go to for VPS hosting right now. Good balance of quality and cost IMHO. But I nee d more than just a static website, so a VPS may be overkill for you to maintain. I like the control and flexibility, though.
Opalstack. Simple to configure. Great support.
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
I mostly use AWS. I have about five different accounts going and I delete/remake them each time the free tier runs out.
This is the true power of the cloud.
Free trials for life.
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.
If you don’t need a backend, you can just host it in s3
That’s a way to tie your invoice to the traffic, which you don’t need to do.
