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Poll: Where do you host your static website?

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Curious to know where the HN community hosts their static websites. If there's an option missing, leave a comment and I'll add it.

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Please, add "Other shared hosting" - otherwise we would need thousands of options. I personally use servage.net

Done

I use a static site generator (Hakyll) and deploy directly to S3. It's a pretty awesome system.

I also used to use CloudFront as a CDN. I gave up because invalidating the cache was a bit tedious. I should start using it again for the assets that usually don't change like fonts. It's really not difficult; it was just inconvenient because I was using it for things like text that I updated constantly.

I use Jekyll and deploy to S3 too - combining it with Cloudflare provides an easier partial-CDN and some tools like 301 redirects that S3 doesn't provide out of the box:

http://www.brouhaha.io/practical-jekyll/

I've considered hosting my assets on a separate domain (e.g. assets.mydomain.com) because, in theory, browsers will better be able to parallelize the downloads. It sounds like this same approach would make your CloudFront setup a bit easier to manage.

Linode! But that's because I have a lot of other services running on my linode box. If I was hosting the site only I'd probably use github pages or heroku.

Webfaction++

I struggled to put up a static generator over there I failed, I tried everything I could. Of course they were helpful but asking them to enable this, enable that every time is plain painful.

I also tried to setup ownCloud and didn't succed again. Finally I moved to vps and I set them up there with some difficulty and then I moved my static files back to Dropbox and left OwnCloud. It was too much trouble.

WebFaction ought to give options to do one click install of static generators and other packages like OwnCloud.

When was this?

bluehost.com - I don't remember why I chose them originally, but I have had my domains and hosting there for a while, and have been happy. I put a few sites on their lowest plan and they have "unlimited" space and bandwidth.

+1 for bluehost. I put my personal site on there and occasionally use it for other small projects. It's really good for what it is.

I find Github to be the best option out there (the only thing I'd like to see is a method to leverage caching). Plus it allows you to make the website "open source" (which is the case for most of what I put up).

Dreamhost. Probably there are better options now, but I have the account.

+1 here

Fastmail.fm

They already provide my e-mail hosting (significantly better spam management than GMail, where about 20-30 were getting through per day) and static web hosting is included.

nearlyfreespeech.net

I started with NFSN and then switched to S3 after a while.

Same. Maybe this is evidence of how unpopular my site is, but I think I've paid a dollar or two over the last three years.

Me too.

Me too. Large files are served from S3 though (using a CNAME).

Same but css/javascript etc is hosted via Rackspace CDN (Akamai).

I'm in the HN minority - I host everything on Microsoft Azure from standalone SQL Server databases to MVC web applications to Virtual Machines.

I tried Dreamhost for a year (for my non serious sites and just personal testing purposes) because people raved about it on Reddit, but it was disappointing. I tracked all my sites using uptimerobot.com and Dreamhost has less than 99.9% up time consistently. Just signed up for asmallorange.com...will see how it goes.

Surprised to see no one mentioned google cloud storage. Similar to s3, but with much lower latency.

How does it work compared to S3/CloudFront? I've been using Jekyll and a VPS but wouldn't mind testing out something like this or S3 for it.

I initially deployed my website on s3 but latency was noticeable. google's cloud storage loads the site instantaneously. There are more tools available to upload to S3 but google cloud storage's web admin now provides a way to upload files now. In order to host a website on google storage, you need to jump through a couple of hoops (proving to google that you own the domain).

My websites are static, single page apps so I leave them on "set it and forget it" mode.

You can test ping times on my site if you like: http://fixparser.targetcompid.com http://datafa.me

I use a static site generator (docpad) and deploy to github pages. I've had bad experiences with both, so I'm looking for alternatives. I have my own servers, but somehow I assumed for a homepage gh-pages would be best. I was wrong.

I've been using recently launched http://fjords.cc . Fjords paired with DNSimple.com has been a dream setup compared to what I previously used (Amazon S3 with Godaddy for domains).

I've been with https://www.blackfoot.co.uk/hosting/plan/ for years.

Decent affordable rates.

It comes in quite useful for side-projects that may be a pain to set up on a VPS

(Since HN has been in golang hype-mode recently:) a 20-line Go web server that I probably wrote in about 5 minutes but I don't remember because it's still chugging away.

http://www.nosupportlinuxhosting.com/

I host a bunch of lower traffic static sites all on the same DigitalOcean droplet with nginx.

Linode + http://github.com/azer/door

Manage my own Apache on a VDS provided by Other hosting provider.

I host http://blog.omgmog.net on GitHub pages, but I also use Jekyll to generate a bunch of static websites that I serve with Apache from my VPS.

Shared host - too many to name. All < $72/year

Middleman + Amazon S3 + CloudFlare. Works great.

Dreamhost - but I wouldn't recommend it

Why so? For a shared hosting provider I've read around they are offering pretty good stuff. Anything specific?

I tried them for a year because of the great reviews on Reddit, but I was quite unhappy about it. Less than 99.9% up time monitored by uptimerobot.com. Some of my sites have less than 99.5% up time in fact. I'm monitoring some of my clients' sites on Siteground and they have better up time over there (>99.9%).

Bluehost, but I don't know why.

Onepager - onepagerapp.com

What - no GoDaddy option?

I bucketed that with "With the domain registrar"... to include others, Register.com, etc.

I used a shared host.

A Small Orange

Media Temple.

Pagodabox.com

Squarespace.

Everblog.me

Aspnix

markuphive.com

openshift

prgmr.com

On a CDN? On S3? On NearlyFreeSpeech?

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