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Alternative to github pages? (reddthat.com)
submitted 4 days ago by iveseenthat@reddthat.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Is there a good alternative to github pages? I need just a static website up.

  • I have a domain.
  • I have my site (local machine)
  • And that's all I have.
  • I have a machine that could be running 24/7 too.
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[–] vegetaaaaaaa@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago
[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Besides other pages alternatives you could try a cheap vps. They start as low as $10/year and any will be plenty for a static site. It's also fun to play around with hosting other stuff. lowendbox.com has some good listings.

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I think vercel (formerly zeit.co) has a free tier for static websites.

[–] aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I built this for my personal use: https://git.prisma.moe/aichan/simple_web_editor

[–] alpha1beta@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

Digital Ocean's app platform offers a toer tier to deploy static sites from Github and a few other places.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So, uh...

Digital Ocean Is pretty inexpensive at US$7 monthly for 1 vCPU/1GB RAM with 1TB transfer. Decent platform. US-based, alas.

(2025 September, for the archives)

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oracle Cloud will give you far more for free.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oracle Cloud will also delete your shit for the price of admission.

Caveat emptor, hey?

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I have not deployed Garage S3, but it has a static pages feature you could use — just buid your static files with jekyl or something, create a bucket and set the permissions.

[–] modality@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 4 days ago

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/HostingWebsiteOnS3Setup.html

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 0 points 4 days ago

If you want free static hosting then probably: https://wasmer.io/

If you have the machine at home then you could set up port forwarding to it, but you would need to do everything yourself like:

  • running a web server like nginx
  • setting up ssl for it with certbot
  • storing the static files in /var/www/html for example
  • port forwarding from your router to that machine
  • using some service like DuckDNS to point a domain to your dynamic IP at home
  • pointing a CNAME to the DuckDNS subdomain on your domain
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