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Ask HN: Easy hosting for kids?

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Do you know of any simple hosting solutions that are so easy a 10 year old could use them?

Preferable but not necessary are custom domains and let's encrypt integration.

At my local codeclub we have kids that finish the html & css courses and want to build their own websites so everyone can see.

In the past I have written a tutorial to get kids started, using github pages for hosting as it is free and pretty easy to use.

But introducing children to git is not easy and seems like an unnecessary step to making their first website. The only other solution I can think of is hosting with FTP access, but that comes with it's own complications.

Maybe something that syncs files with Google Drive or Dropbox?

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savethefuture
I dont know of any existing solutions to your problem, but you could build your own server. Such as get a Digital Ocean ($5/mo) or linode server, configure it to your needs, setup chroot and ftp and nginx/apache for each of their sites.
detaro
https://neocities.org/ ? Online HTML editor and drag-and-drop upload.
foopod
Oooooh very nice. I will give it a jam tonight and get the kids to try it out next week :D
accordionclown
neocities does seem particularly good for your use-case.

your students could keep their site after the class.

accordionclown
updog.co publishes files from both google drive and dropbox.

and htmldrop.com publishes files from dropbox.

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