I’m considering creating another personal website, but for more formal things like writing articles and programming updates, as opposed to the usual blog stuff I have on my Neocities site. It’ll also have a simpler design, optimised more for reading than having a fun appearance.

Unless the generic domain is particularly nice, I’ll buy a domain from Namecheap; but Neocities requires a subscription in order to use a custom domain, so does anyone have any suggestions for cheap or free web hosting that I could use?

  • Hellfire103OPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This would be primarily a static site. I can write decent HTML, and I would ideally either code by hand or use a Markdown -> HTML converter. I will not be using any funky frameworks, as I feel they are unnecessary and will prevent the site from working properly in old and limited browsers (such as Lynx).

    I might like Gemini or Gopher support, but that’s not a priority. Git, SFTP, or WebDAV syncing would be handy for editing. Other than that, though, I wouldn’t need any other features.

    I hadn’t considered Cloudflare, but I’ll look into it.

    • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Sorry, I missed your reply.

      If you want to go the converter route, Cloudflare Pages sounds fairly perfect for you. You can have it trigger from commits in GitLab/GitHub and run whichever (Hugo, Jekyll, etc) static site builder you like. The free tier will be plenty for you.

    • jadero@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      If you might be looking at more general mucking about, Oracle’s “always free” tier is pretty good. Yes, you might have to set aside decades of hate for Oracle like I did, but it’s not like I’m ever giving them any money.