If you’re doing static sites, then traffic shouldn’t be a concern.
I host two sites that each get more than 2 million hits a month, and I run them from a $0.10 cent Scaleway server.
Cloudflare in front of the sites takes most of the load.
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fubarx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Have used Jekyll, Hugo, and Docusaurus to generate static sites, and Wordpress and Ghost for blogs.
A few things to think about:
If one-person, technical, static, I’d go with Jekyll and Github pages, or Jekyll/Hugo/Docusaurus on Cloudflare pages. They all have templates. But you need to know how to setup github repos and tools. Cost is $0 to operate, other than annual fee for custom DNS domain name.
If more than one person, non-technical, or dynamic, then hosted Wordpress or Ghost. Budget for DNS name and ~20-50 dollars or euros/month (plus or minus, depending on features and traffic). There are free versions of these, but they slap ads all over them.
You can self-host all these, but it’s much easier to have someone else deal with traffic spikes.
If you need community forums or a way for users to communicate with each other, then none of the above.
If you’re doing static sites, then traffic shouldn’t be a concern.
I host two sites that each get more than 2 million hits a month, and I run them from a $0.10 cent Scaleway server.
Cloudflare in front of the sites takes most of the load.
You’re overpaying 😁
Cloudflare static web hosting, including TLS/SSL, DDOS protection, WAF, and AI scraper protection, are all free: softwareonbudget.com/…/how-to-host-static-website…
And if you connect it to github repo, it auto-updates on push to main.
No connection. Just a happy user and a fan.
I use the server for other things too, but thank you.
ozoned@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
This is excellently well thought out post and some GREAT questions! I'll have to go through this more. I'm definitely planning on Self Hosting via Hetzner, I expect it to be static. I don't honestly expect much traffic, but who the hell knows. :-D I don't think I'll need forums as I have the Fediverse! :-D