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I'm using github pages to host a website of mine, and I need another. Can anyone recommend a cheap/reliable simple html/css/js website host? No need for wordpress installation, Rails, etc.

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It's not totally free, but if you host your site on an S3 bucket (which will cost pennies/month [1] if you don't have gigabytes of stuff) and then put free-tier Cloudflare [2] in front of it.

The name of the bucket has to be the same as your domain (e.g. `www.example.co`), and then you turn on static site hosting in the bucket settings, and get a URL like `www.example.co.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com`, then you can add a CNAME record in CloudFlare pointing `www.example.co` to the bucket URL. (If the bucket name doesn't match the domain name, S3 will complain)

It's not free, but it is cheap.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ [2] http://www.cloudflare.com/plans

Azure App Service (formerly known as Azure Websites) is what I've been using for these types of small projects. It's completely free for up to 10 sites (using up to 5GB outbound bandwidth) and you can deploy by simply linking and pushing to a git repo.

Netlify is awesome. Can even run a build process (similar to github pages) but using just about any static site generator.

[1] https://www.netlify.com

Thanks so much for the shout out, we appreciate it, and are happy that you like it. And for you and any one reading this, let us know if there are any features you'd like and we'll get right on it.

Arguably a wee bit simpler than jffry's s3+cloudflare option, and with a similar pay-for-what-you-use pricing model, is NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

Can't you use GitHub pages for multiple sites? Or create multiple GitHub accounts?

You can make a github page for each project, but it walks me through a process that forces me to use their template and my own markdown, not able to actually upload html/css etc. I suppose I could create another github account though, but not sure if I want to do that every one-off site I want to put up.

As far as I know you can create multiple sites on one account. I'm not sure what you mean about GitHub forcing you to use a template. For my homepage, I set up a new Git repo and used a Gulp module to deploy to it without any issues.

You can just create a GitHub organization and create a Pages repo for that org.

You can definitely create github pages for each repo, using your own html/css/js. You just need to create a gh-pages branch [1]. If you just want to host a new static site, you can even create a new repo just for that, create a gh-pages branch, then make it the default branch and delete the master branch, leaving you with only the gh-pages content [2].

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-manu...

[2] http://24ways.org/2013/get-started-with-github-pages/

This is great, I will look in to this. Thanks!

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