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>Flat rate web hosting exists, and blogs (especially unsophisticated ones) do not require much bandwidth or processing power.

I actually find this surprisingly difficult to find.

I just want static hosting (like Netlify or Firebase Hosting), but there aren't many hosts that offer that.

There are lots of providers where I can buy a VPS somewhere and be in charge of configuring and patching it, but if I just want to hand someone a set of HTML files and some money in exchange for hosting, not many hosts fit the bill.

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> There are lots of providers where I can buy a VPS somewhere and be in charge of configuring and patching it, but if I just want to hand someone a set of HTML files and some money in exchange for hosting, not many hosts fit the bill.

Yeah, that's true, there isn't a lot of "I give you money and HTML, you host it" services out there, surprisingly. Probably the most mature, cheapest and most reliable one today would be good ol' neocities.org (run by HN user kyledrake) which basically gives you 3TB/month for $5, pretty good deal :)

Sometimes when I miss StumbleUpon I go to https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=random which gives a fun little glimpse of the hobby/curiosity/creative web.

If you just want to host HTML for personal use github pages is free (and works with a custom domain). There are bandwidth limitations, but they definitely won't pull an AWS on you and send a bill that would cover a new car because a crawler acted up.

Github Pages' "soft" bandwidth limit is 100 MB. I typically use 300-500 GB per month at Netlify, so I'm over Github's limit.

I actually don't even want a free option. I want to pay a vendor that cares about keeping my website online. I'm fine paying $20-50/mo as long as it's bounded and they don't just take my site offline if I see a spike from HN.

You already had a couple of suggestions but I've been happy in the past with OVH.

https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/web-hosting/compare/

Interesting, I was under the impression this was more common than maybe it is. I know the hosting market has gotten pretty bad.

So, I'm currently building pretty much this. After doing it on the side for clients for years, it's now my full-time effort. I have a solid and stable infrastructure, but not yet an API or web frontend. If somebody wants basically ssh, git, and static (or even not static!) hosting that comes with a sysadmin's contact information for a small number of dollars per month, I can be reached at sysop@biphrost.net.

Environment is currently Debian-in-LXC-on-Debian-on-DigitalOcean.

Dreamhost! They're still around and still lovely after how many years? I even find their custom control panel charming.

I really like DH(though I am still mad about the cloudatcost shenanigans) and use them but if you use 200x the resources the other shared sites consume you're getting the boot just like anyone.

I host my personal static site with Firebase, haven’t paid a cent yet (and don’t even think I set up billing!) Just compile and firebase deploy.

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