I am looking to get some hosting for a static website. Sadly, doesn’t seem like privacyguides recommends any web hosting services… It would be nice if it did! Anyway, these are my requirements: Cheap. Money is tight right now. Reputable. I don’t want some random shell-company registrar in Seychel…

I use: Domain from namecheap. Hosting at nixihost.

Another option for static websites (HTML, CSS, JS, pictures) is neocities.org It’s completely free (I think 1 GB of storage), and you don’t need to give them any information about yourself (no name, no phone number, no payment info; just an email). If you pay for premium ($5/month) you can host an…

The cheapest and most secure way to host your static website would be Arweave . In fact, it’s not a host, though. It’s a decentralized infrastructure that you can build upon.

[image] anon21489307: It’s a decentralized infrastructure that you can build upon. Well if we are talking about these, can’t miss https://mirror.xyz/

I would also look into actually static pages (you mention Wordpress, but that is a PHP and database-powered CMS) aka Jamstack . Then you can use the already mentioned Codeberg Pages for free or sourcehut pages for cheap. As for domain, well not registering one in your name in is both cheap and priva…

Cloudflare pages meets all your requirements. They’ve got the most secure and reputable services around. Privacy-wise, they’re solid too since you don’t need to run any 3rd party JS from them on your website. If you choose to put your email there, they can protect your email from crawlers and bots. …

I was about to post a similar question here. In regards to my use case, I am trying to create a design portfolio website, but without money I need a free yet as private as possible web host. I’m not versed in legal stuff nor that good at this kind of research so forgive me if I make any mistakes, mi…

Would like to update this in regards to the licensing issue I had in case anyone else had that same reservation. Talking with the community (not the team), I come to these conclusions: Licensing in regards to Codeberg Pages only applies to the code of the Pages’ server, not the code of your site. C…

There was a recent thread regarding web hosting and I left a reply to it: Recommendation for web hosting providers - #2 by Satoshi Additionally, you can take a look at Jamstack to find static site generators and content management systems that you may want to use for the website: [image] S…

[image] anon21666177: Cloudflare pages meets all your requirements. They’ve got the most secure and reputable services around. Privacy-wise, they’re solid too since you don’t need to run any 3rd party JS from them on your website. If you choose to put your email there, they can protect your emai…

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