That's not bad at all gonna have to check it out. I host my site on digital ocean it's on the smallest single core 1gb ram droplet. I run crowdsec and nginx and a couple other little things and it sits around 40% ram usage. Costs 6$ a month and I added 4 weeks worth of automatic weekly backups for $1.50 a month.

I can deal with $7.50 for a little static web server.

They do offer a free $200/60 day credit if you get in with one of the free Linux Foundation cloud classes which is plenty to play with.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

FWIW, if all you have is a truly static website (html, css, and js), then GitHub Pages is free and you can point a custom domain there from your registrar, and don't have to worry about backups or server uptime.

[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless GH has another database oopsie.

[–] sip@programming.dev 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

no worries, cloud providers have oopsies of their own.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Less oopsie-whoopsies than I would DIY, either way.

[–] h0bbl3s@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of the Github pages being free that's neat. It is fully static (running on nginx but generated with hugo) and I use freedns.afraid.org for the domains. Good to know thanks for the tip :)

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/ https://www.roshanadhikary.com.np/2020/11/forward-your-freedns-custom-domain-to.html

Hope these guides are useful for you.

[–] h0bbl3s@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Hey thanks I'm sure they will be!

[–] starshipwinepineapple@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

And if you want a private repo, you can also use gitlab and point to custom domain with gitlab pages or cloudflare pages.

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