I throw everything I experiment with at Cloudflare, including my personal website and the family’s Internet stuff (websites, etc). None of them is commercial. Cloudflare tells me that it served 68.44 GB in the last 30 days, and the Invoice was ZERO.
I’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it’s not costly, but I’m still in that cheap-feeling phase and not ready to offload over 100GB of files to the public while paying a price.
I looked at Bunny CDN a while back, but I remember thinking that the minimum was like ~$50. What did I miss? I dismissed it as non-personal option.
> trifold offers an easy alternative to services like Cloudflare Pages, Netlify [...]
Does it? Those provide dynamic compute for e.g. SSR, not hosting static sites. The equivalent here is more like S3 + Cloudflare (Cloud Connector and some rules). Which is free for most use cases and (IMO) pretty easy.
Can someone ELI5 from the experience of hosting a static site, what is the next step beyond a static CDN?
I am guessing the next step is paying for a bucket that that allows virtualized containers to run an OS? Or having a constantly-up node.js backend to generate server-side HTML? Is this essentially the generic description of self-hosting Wordpress on an own server?
Does integrating a payment processor like Shopify require something more than static hosting?
Hey, so, as an old-timer (who has paid for regular old hosting for almost 30 years) whats going on here?
Specifically: Is it that a whole lot of you are deploying things that require the heavy lifting of a CDN -- or is it that you're just used to the idea of one out of habit?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 22.9 ms ] threadI’ve been looking for an extra-cheap CDN, and I’m not so worried about high uptime. I’m not yet ready to cough up the cost for Cloudflare R2 and AWS CloudFront, though it’s not costly, but I’m still in that cheap-feeling phase and not ready to offload over 100GB of files to the public while paying a price.
I looked at Bunny CDN a while back, but I remember thinking that the minimum was like ~$50. What did I miss? I dismissed it as non-personal option.
Does it? Those provide dynamic compute for e.g. SSR, not hosting static sites. The equivalent here is more like S3 + Cloudflare (Cloud Connector and some rules). Which is free for most use cases and (IMO) pretty easy.
For anyone who might find this interesting, I wanted a static site knowledge base but private: https://chanux.me/blog/post/static-site-with-auth/
I host this with GCP and stay within free tier
And how I deploy a similar thing with GCS/Cloud build etc is covered here https://chanux.me/blog/post/automate-static-site-publishing-...
I feel that tossing your static files up on a host like NearlyFreeSpeech (or any other cheap/decent host) is the easiest.
This would also only cost you ~$0.03 a day. Don’t reinvent the wheel, you know?
I haven’t yet worked out the best cheap VPS/dedicated provider though, project for next weekend.
I am guessing the next step is paying for a bucket that that allows virtualized containers to run an OS? Or having a constantly-up node.js backend to generate server-side HTML? Is this essentially the generic description of self-hosting Wordpress on an own server?
Does integrating a payment processor like Shopify require something more than static hosting?
https://neocities.org
Specifically: Is it that a whole lot of you are deploying things that require the heavy lifting of a CDN -- or is it that you're just used to the idea of one out of habit?