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Alternative to github pages? (reddthat.com)
submitted 2 months 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 2 months ago
[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

Oracle Cloud will give you far more for free.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

Caveat emptor, hey?

[–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mine has been running for years now without any such deletions.

[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

And I genuinely hope it stays that way for years more to come. Cheers.

[–] aichan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] alpha1beta@piefed.social 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 0 points 2 months 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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