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Try using:

Hosting - github pages for free Static hosting for personal website http://pages.github.com/

Blog: Jekyll - creates static websites with blogging capabilities so it works well with github pages. You can also add static pages for cv, etc. http://jekyllrb.com/

Domain name: there are many options out there. use whatever you think best (I use namecheap and they're decent so far http://www.namecheap.com/)

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I'll second the namecheap recommendation. I've used it for registration and hosting for setting up a few sites for friends and I've always had a good experience with them. They offer hosting as well as domain name registration.

I was halfway through buying from namecheap, when I kind of felt odd about giving all of my details over to an American company. I know it's probably pretty biased of me, but after everything that's happened recently I thought I might have some tiny smidgen of legal protection if I went with a British company. I'm not an American citizen, so I don't feel like I would have any rights if there ever was a problem with my domain. It's not that I think I'm going to do anything that would warrant shutting down my domain name, but it's one of those things that just makes you think twice. p.s. I'm well aware how terrible my own country's surveillance methods are, but at least I'm considered to be a citizen here.

That's a good point I suppose. I'm Canadian so I'm in the same boat as you. I guess I'm not as worried since they (NSA) already have all my information from everything else I do online (one of the bad parts about being in Canada is that almost all connections passes through the states at some point).

... And now I've just depressed myself over the state of the internet

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