Comparing free static web hosts

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• mezoology

  October 2020

  Goodluck bud and don't get burnt out fast.
• armandorg Services Provider

  October 2020

  I read it, good article.

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• TigersWay OG

  October 2020

  Maybe - at the very minimum - Vercel is missing!

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• quangthang

  October 2020

  @TigersWay said:
  Maybe - at the very minimum - Vercel is missing!

  I second this

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• chimichurri

  October 2020 edited October 2020

  consider adding the following:

  sites:
  * surge,
  * gitlab pages,
  * hostman,
  * render,
  * neocities

  features (or the lack thereof):
  * custom domain support,
  * https support (subdomain only / incl. custom domain)

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• cyberhost

  October 2020 edited October 2020

  Thanks for all the feedback and support

  I'll look into adding some of the hosts suggested and the features offered.

  https://cyberhost.uk
• Sova OG

  October 2020

  How about Firebase? Works great for static sites.

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• MichaelCee Hosting ProviderOGServices Provider

  October 2020

  

  Sad bois.

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• armandorg Services Provider

  October 2020

  @SmallWeb said:
  

  Sad bois.

  Cheap.

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• easy

  October 2020

  @SmallWeb said:
  

  Sad bois.

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• Janevski OG

  November 2020 edited November 2020

  AwardSpace, they are a stable free host that existed "since the dawn of time".
  I still have active free hosting account with them, still working, that i've forgotten it's control panel password and even my e-mail password from that era.

  Kudos to the peope from AwardSpace!
• chocolateshirt OG

  November 2020

  @Janevski said:
  AwardSpace, they are a stable free host that existed "since the dawn of time".
  I still have active free hosting account with them, still working, that i've forgotten it's control panel password and even my e-mail password from that era.

  Kudos to the peope from AwardSpace!

  The first free webhosting I ever had..

  ⭕ A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
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• yoursunny OG

  November 2020 edited November 2020

  @Janevski said:
  AwardSpace, they are a stable free host that existed "since the dawn of time".

  I somehow have two accounts on AwardSpace.
  First account was registered on 2006-12-08 and it's no longer working.
  Second account was registered on 2011-07-23 and I can still login.

  I still have active free hosting account with them, still working, that i've forgotten it's control panel password and even my e-mail password from that era.

  In order to not forget password, post your password on Twitter and forums.
  My password was on the top five comments of DEV Community last week and highly rated on the wrong green forum.

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• iandk Hosting ProviderOG

  November 2020

  GitHub Pages doesn’t have proper SPA support, so I‘d prefer Netlify

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• chimichurri

  November 2020

  @iandk said:
  GitHub Pages doesn’t have proper SPA support, so I‘d prefer Netlify

  Care to elaborate? SPA does ring a bell but I'm not sure what you're referring to here exactly..

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• AC_Fan OG

  November 2020

  @chimichurri said:

  @iandk said:
  GitHub Pages doesn’t have proper SPA support, so I‘d prefer Netlify

  Care to elaborate? SPA does ring a bell but I'm not sure what you're referring to here exactly..

  Single Page Application, I believe.
• iandk Hosting ProviderOG

  November 2020

  @chimichurri said:

  @iandk said:
  GitHub Pages doesn’t have proper SPA support, so I‘d prefer Netlify

  Care to elaborate? SPA does ring a bell but I'm not sure what you're referring to here exactly..

  Yup, Single Page Apps.
  When there is a fresh page load for a url like example.tld/foo, where /foo is a frontend route, the GitHub Pages server returns 404 because it knows nothing of /foo.

  See:
  https://github.com/rafgraph/spa-github-pages

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• chimichurri

  November 2020

  Thanks guys! (Sorry, I meant the issue itself, not just the abbreviation)

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• yoursunny OG

  November 2020

  Check out this article from DEV Community:
  15+ Easy-Peasy Services to deploy your Static WebApp for Free ?

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• cyberhost

  November 2020 edited November 2020

  Due to popular request, Vercel and AwardSpace have now been added to the post.

  https://cyberhost.uk/hosting-a-static-website-for-free/

  I have also added a section to show the current uptime of the different services. Hopefully, this will be interesting in a few months!

  https://cyberhost.uk
• evnix OG

  November 2020

  Most free hosting out there that supports PHP will also support static HTML pages.
  static web hosting is not a feature, but the absence of features.

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• iandk Hosting ProviderOG

  November 2020

  @evnix said:
  Most free hosting out there that supports PHP will also support static HTML pages.
  static web hosting is not a feature, but the absence of features.

  You can’t compare Netlify or Vercel to a regular hosting.
  Integrated CI/CDN, global CDN, auto deploy etc...

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• vyas OGRetired

  November 2020

  Good to see this thread criss crossing:

  • the “new age” hosting by Netlify etc.
  • “old school” shared hosting
  • Applications

  To add to the mix, now add Cloudflare - static site hosting via CF workers.
  And
  Static Content Management Systems: FlatPress, HTMLY...

  For the interested reader, the article can add loads of value. For everyone else, it will confuse them for a long time.

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• TigersWay OG

  November 2020

  That's why it's called the JAMstack era!
• cyberhost

  November 2020

  @vyas said:
  Good to see this thread criss crossing:

  • the “new age” hosting by Netlify etc.
  • “old school” shared hosting
  • Applications

  To add to the mix, now add Cloudflare - static site hosting via CF workers.
  And
  Static Content Management Systems: FlatPress, HTMLY...

  For the interested reader, the article can add loads of value. For everyone else, it will confuse them for a long time.

  I'm thinking of creating a dedicated post on Cloudflare Workers as there's a wide range of different use cases.

  Would you guys be interested in a comparison of CDN providers?

  https://cyberhost.uk