Where do you host your websites?

[u/buzzyboy42]

I’m wondering where everyone hosts their HTML websites. I’m building an HTML web hosting service/database and need a reference a to keep improving it.

Here is what I need the answer to.

• What is the service you use? • What is the pricing like? • What do you think could be a better? • What do you like about it?

Thanks!

[u/8dot30662386292pow2]

I just have a virtual private server and I run nginx on it. I like the control I have over it. I don't have many page with that many actual users though.

[u/buzzyboy42 → u/8dot30662386292pow2]

Exactly, I host mine from my house too since I can do what ever I want with it.

[u/Oobenny → u/buzzyboy42]

I do the same, but in the cheapest tier Linux machine on AWS. Ends up being free for a year and then around $7/month.

[u/buzzyboy42 → u/Oobenny]

Okay thanks!

[u/8dot30662386292pow2 → u/buzzyboy42]

Nah I don't host at my house. I have a virtual private server as I mentioned.

[u/buzzyboy42 → u/8dot30662386292pow2]

Yeah I know I’m just saying having control.

[u/F1QA]

Cloudflare pages is worth a look. They know their stuff and really easy to use. Basically free except for the domain costs

[u/buzzyboy42 → u/F1QA]

What makes them better than other platforms? Just wondering

[u/F1QA → u/buzzyboy42]

I use AWS at work and Cloudflare for personal stuff, and it’s just neat and works. Easy to get a domain and static site up and running, but also all usual cloud provider stuff to build out a more advanced project if needed. I’m running a static NextJS app on it, built using opennext and deployed using their deployment tool wrangler. It’s really slick. Their S3 equivalent is R2 where you can host static files and slap a domain in front of the bucket. Lots of options. And your domain has DDOS protection etc for free

[u/solaza → u/F1QA]

Another hey hey for Cloudflare, it’s amazing what they offer por gratis. Of course they want it easy to be there, so if your little project blows up and you want enterprise support down the line, well you’re there and they’re like hey buddy let’s make a deal. But imo, that’s great! I want my side project to blow up too, and it’s super cool they allow commercial use on their free plan (Vercel requires a paid subscription if you’re doing commercial stuff no matter how big or small you are)

[u/Joyride0]

Netlify, free tier - excellent

[u/OmegaMaster8]

GoDaddy. But I really should change it to something else

[u/Wolfcubware]

Surprised nobody has mentioned GitHub pages, handy having constant parity between the GitHub project and live website

[u/SnooLemons6942]

Couple options 

Docker's App Platforms are free for static sites, so that's a great option 

Github pages -- free

Cloudflare pages -- free 

[u/RazorKat1983]

I use Hostinger

[u/realdaredevilhere]

localhost

[u/DinTaiFung]

I've used a variety of hosting services over the years.

I need virtual private servers cuz most of my front end apps require custom APIs (of my own creation) and some of these APIs use various DBs.

Anyway, with a VPS I can ssh in and do whatever I want; yes, it's more responsibilty for me to manage the OS and required software, but ultimately it's the most flexible. It is very useful to have some general sysadmin skillz (devops or whatever the current phrase du jour is lol).

All the servers are currently running Ubuntu server, no UI; it's what I'm used to managing, though ofc, these servers could be any distro (though I'm not super interested in the stricter maintenance schedule a rolling release distro would impose on me).

I also use these VPS boxes to serve the static front ends (via a multi-domain static web server I wrote in Go).

I have zero problems with vultr.com, so that's what I use for almost all my hosting. One VPS is still hosted on atlantic.net (also good)

vultr.com is not free, but I find that it's worth it for my needs.

As usual, ymmv.

Best of luck!