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I also used Hugo for my site - https://testloop.co.uk It's so simple.. and FAST. It's hosted on AWS S3 with CloudFront & Route53 so it's not free, but at a cost of around $1.20 per month, it's not far off.

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$1.20 a month is really expensive. I have a whole virtual server for €5 a month (and there are smaller ones) that hosts 10+ sites/apps.

EDIT: I just realized that's a question I should ask: Does your price include the domain?

$1.20 a month may be expensive relative to your costs, but relative to the average programmer income and monthly bills in the United States – it's nothing. You'll spend three times that cost on a local cup of coffee every morning.

S3 static hosting is far easier to manage than a virtual server; it's a trade-off of convenience vs savings.

What service do you use? 5/mo is really cheap for 10+sites/apps

Not to discourage a response with a personal anecdote, but don't miss https://github.com/joedicastro/vps-comparison and its HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14245538.

hetzner.de (the cheapest virtual server)

I'm really conscious about the resource usage of my server processes. Most sites are static websites, but I also have Gitea, Prosody and Matrix Synapse running on that box, plus some small Go webapps for my own consumption.

It didn't include the domain no.

I've used digital ocean droplets for some things for a similar $5 a month price, but it hardly seems necessary for a static site. It's much less faffery to just upload some files to S3 and click some buttons in the AWS console to configure everything.

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