Static Site Hosting

Comments recommend free or low-cost platforms like GitHub Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, AWS S3, and others for easily hosting and deploying static websites.

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Sample Comments

abiogenesis β€’ Jun 30, 2020 β€’ View on HN

For a static website isn't something like Netlify easier (and cheaper, as in free)?

lukasm β€’ May 12, 2014 β€’ View on HN

Why didn't you use github page or S3. It's static page isn't it?

mises β€’ Apr 21, 2019 β€’ View on HN

Looks great. If it's static, try using netlify and cloudflare; I've used cloudflare with great success for years, and I just tried netlify (works great & free).

Gigachad β€’ Aug 12, 2023 β€’ View on HN

If you are just hosting static files, you could drop it on github pages and it would work perfectly for free.

darkstar999 β€’ Mar 17, 2017 β€’ View on HN

Look at static blog generators (hugo, jekyll) + s3 + cloudfront. You don't pay unless you have traffic.

scrollaway β€’ Jul 16, 2018 β€’ View on HN

Static site, yeah? What about putting it on Github pages and not pay at all? (Or S3 and have it in the free tier)

PaulHoule β€’ Aug 19, 2022 β€’ View on HN

Or static site generator and a service like netlify or AWS S3 plus AWS Cloudfront.

actionfromafar β€’ Dec 18, 2022 β€’ View on HN

Static hosting can be found free on sites like gatsby.

chii β€’ Aug 12, 2016 β€’ View on HN

If you could host via s3, why not use GitHub.io and do it for free?

avianlyric β€’ Mar 25, 2021 β€’ View on HN

You should checkout Cloudflare Pages. For static stuff it’s a dream to setup, and you get previews out of the box.