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Follow-up: Does anyone know how to best host this site? a) with less than 50 users all-time b) easily updated daily (blog-style) by a 7 year old c) is approximately free

Wordpress with her custom theme seems to fail C. Github pages / Jekyll is failing B

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I responded to you on Twitter but I would go for Tumblr. Easy to maintain, and makes it very easy to publish media-heavy posts...which, even if your daughter is the next J.K. Rowling in terms of enthusiasm for the written word, Tumblr hits the right mix of decent flexibility and dead simple UI. I maintained my own Wordpress site but ended up posting much more frequently to Tumblr.

I now am basically 100% Jekyll and Middleman...but having tried teaching Github Pages to college students...I'm skeptical that it's easy enough for a child to hack around with and get the same amount of enjoyment and productivity that she would out of Tumblr or WordPress.

(Apparently Ghost is pretty good too but I've never tried it)

Seems like the perfect usecase for https://neocities.org/

NearlyFreeSpeech can host a wordpress site with low traffic for little more than a penny a day.

Was going to comment this. Used NFS years ago and was incredibly happy with them, they're fantastic.

Yeah, I have a handful of low-traffic sites with them and it's fantastic.

For a little more functionality, I like ASmallOrange. My partner hosts her site/blog with them for $35/year and it's great, too.

Tumblr is great for making posts.

Livejournal is still the best for writing posts and having discussions on. Takes no effort to keep going, and has threaded comments, supports images and videos, and basically just works:

http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/ (for an example)

I had a lot of fun when I was younger with websites on https://byethost.com/index.php/free-hosting, but no idea what they're like nowdays. Worth a look, in any case.

A quick look through wordpress' offerings shows some nice plans for hosting that shouldn't be too expensive [0]

[0] https://wordpress.org/hosting/

http://prose.io/ might fit the bill though I'm not sure it's usable by a 7 year old.

Not free, but relatively cheap: https://www.site44.com

Shoot me an e-mail (cf. profile). I'd be happy to host it.

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