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0 pointsac295y ago0 comments

Good luck finding decent hosting for $5/year, and hosting it yourself would cost more like $5/month (entry-level linode or something).

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benbristow5y ago· 1 in thread

To be fair, building a static website and hosting on something like Azure Blob Storage Static Websites with an Azure Function for your contact form (or Azure Static Web Apps for both in one solution) would cost cents (pennies) a month have about the same maintenance fees, if you know what you're doing.

You're not going to have any support with that though and lacking the CMS part of it, and if you want to use any of the more advanced features like Ecommerce then you're going to have to spend a while building that.

lupire5y ago

I just spent more than $5/yr reading your comment.

$5/yr for a whole site is simply not worth even talking about. It's not relevant.

markdown5y ago· 1 in thread

I have three dozen client sites (mom and pop businesses) running on Google App Engine that cost between $0.05 and $0.20 per month.

ghaff5y ago

For low traffic sites that end up mostly just being object store and bandwidth, the public clouds are almost certainly the cheapest (from a computing bill perspective) way to do things. My personal website is similar.

The main caveat is that theoretically your costs could spike for some reason given you're paying based on usage. But if you're not doing anything complicated, I consider that pretty low odds.

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