Current best, cheap web hosts?
February 22, 2018 8:57 AM Subscribe
My current web host has jacked their prices through the roof. Where to go now?
My current host (asmallorange) has jacked the price for their tiniest hosting plan from $25/year to $62/year. So, the question now is, where do I move to? Who offers reliable, basic, and cheap hosting these days?
Caveat: My site is straight-up simple html and css, and I have no interest in migrating to Wordpress, Squarespace, or other such solutions.
Thanks!
fwiw, my site is barely more than a placeholder. It's basically a short version of my portfolio. So, no fancy bells and whistles needed beyond, probably, adding SSL because Google.
My current host (asmallorange) has jacked the price for their tiniest hosting plan from $25/year to $62/year. So, the question now is, where do I move to? Who offers reliable, basic, and cheap hosting these days?
Caveat: My site is straight-up simple html and css, and I have no interest in migrating to Wordpress, Squarespace, or other such solutions.
Thanks!
fwiw, my site is barely more than a placeholder. It's basically a short version of my portfolio. So, no fancy bells and whistles needed beyond, probably, adding SSL because Google.
Best answer: I used Nearlyfreespeech as recently as 1 year ago and it's scalability based on use is pretty ideal for hardly-used sites.
posted by notorious medium at 9:00 AM on February 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by notorious medium at 9:00 AM on February 22, 2018 [1 favorite]
Best answer: I've been hosted on Nearlyfreespeech for years, get almost no traffic as it's just for my stuff, and have had to pay almost nothing (maybe $10 so long ago that I've forgotten).
posted by anadem at 9:07 AM on February 22, 2018
posted by anadem at 9:07 AM on February 22, 2018
Best answer: Here to pile on with NearlyFreeSpeech.net, they are great.
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 9:16 AM on February 22, 2018
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 9:16 AM on February 22, 2018
Best answer: Fifthed. They also restructured their pricing recently, but that's just turned out to mean I'm paying them a pittance now instead of nearly nothing.
posted by flabdablet at 9:20 AM on February 22, 2018
posted by flabdablet at 9:20 AM on February 22, 2018
Response by poster: Thanks all! NFS sounds like the winner.
Not to threadsit, but, it raises another question...Does NFS utilize something like C-Panel or some other admin tool?
posted by Thorzdad at 9:26 AM on February 22, 2018
Not to threadsit, but, it raises another question...Does NFS utilize something like C-Panel or some other admin tool?
posted by Thorzdad at 9:26 AM on February 22, 2018
Best answer: They have a web interface for doing account admin stuff. For keeping my actual site content up to date, they give you proper ssh access so I just use that and scp/sftp. If you're on Windows, WinSCP should work fine.
posted by flabdablet at 9:50 AM on February 22, 2018
posted by flabdablet at 9:50 AM on February 22, 2018
Best answer: I also use NFS for various low-traffic things and it is cheap and easy to use.
posted by robcorr at 6:46 PM on February 22, 2018
posted by robcorr at 6:46 PM on February 22, 2018
I use nearlyfreespeech for hosting a static website and they have a way to use letsencrypt to have https setup. ssh/scp/sftp probably required
posted by andendau at 6:40 PM on February 24, 2018
posted by andendau at 6:40 PM on February 24, 2018
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It's not fancy, but it is cheap.
I'm moving my stuff over there soon.
posted by deezil at 9:00 AM on February 22, 2018 [4 favorites]