Want to put a site up for a week or two.

May 28, 2012 12:10 PM

I just want to put a draft website up for a client for a few days. I have created it locally in a few directories and I want to put it somewhere, preferably for free or a few quid and without signing some year-long contract. I just want to FTP my files in and have done with it. Just HTML and CSS for now. It can expire in a month and can have whatever weird URL it wants. What's the best suggestion?

I don't want ads on it, preferably, and it would be nice if I didn't have to upload everything into a flat directory, i.e. I have /images folders and stuff.

Thank you, hive mind!

posted by By The Grace of God to computers & internet (8 answers total)

000webhost.com is free, ad-free, and pretty straightforward for what you're doing. I've used it for similar purposes with no issues.
posted by dayintoday at 12:17 PM on May 28, 2012

Have you looked at NearlyFreeSpeech? It would probably cost you no more than $2-3.
posted by yaymukund at 12:18 PM on May 28, 2012 [2 favorites]

Do you have any other websites? Could you just stick it in a "hidden" area of one, unreachable unless you know the exact URL?
posted by KateViolet at 12:18 PM on May 28, 2012

Does your ISP provide limited storage and hosting as part of your service? I've put-up small sites on my ISP-provided share before.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:24 PM on May 28, 2012

Dropbox is free and works for this if you put the site files in your Public folder.
posted by firefleet at 12:33 PM on May 28, 2012 [1 favorite]

I'm using Alwaysdata for this kind of stuff, see their free plan.
posted by egor83 at 12:46 PM on May 28, 2012 [1 favorite]

Well that was easy, nearlyfreespeech worked very well. Thanks guys!
posted by By The Grace of God at 1:04 PM on May 28, 2012

Just in case anyone else is reading this in the future, StatiCloud is also a free ad-less host for static websites.
posted by burnmp3s at 6:41 AM on May 29, 2012 [1 favorite]