Help regarding hosting and creating static website

AgentBane

AgentBane

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Hi All,

I need some suggestions w.r.t website and hosting. We have started a small venture purchased .com domain from GoDaddy now want to host static website with 2-3 pages with contact us page nothing fancy which can mostly be done using templates.

Currently I have tried wix.com and I loved their templates, AI to create information on it but regarding GoDaddy there is also website builder there few templates but if anyone is aware of any good sites, please reply will check those as well.

Also, if I start using wix.com for hosting will there be any issue as domain is purchased from GoDaddy?
 
You can host your static site anywhere on the internet, cloudflare is a good place, also static site hosting is free, so no payments there. You can get simple html, css templates from the internet and get this done. Alternatively you can pay someone to set the whole thing up for you, generally it's between 5k to 10k depending on number of pages.
 
You can also use Github/Gitlab pages to host your static site for free.
It's a bit complicated, but it's better than most shared hosting plans IMO.
You can use any template you want to create the site.

GitHub Pages

Websites for you and your projects, hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
pages.github.com pages.github.com

GitLab Pages | GitLab

Learn how to use GitLab Pages to deploy a static website at no additional cost.
docs.gitlab.com docs.gitlab.com
 
how about (may not be the best suggestion) get a cheap VPS from linode.com (I have a "nano" one) for around USD 5 per month which includes a IPv4 static IP, you can run straight up ubuntu/debian on it and setup your website as you like, and point a dynamic dns hostname to it, or even your domain if you have one?
 
For hosting static websites, I've found Cloudflare to be very useful (just at the free tier).

Cloudflare pages is fairly easy to setup with multiple options to get started quickly (you can do a direct upload or connect to a git repo). DNS management is also very good with additional features like email relays (so you can setup something like email@yourdomain.com to forward to one of your existing mailbox), CDN, analytics etc available OOB.

Building static sites is a different beast. To keep it simple might be worth looking into a static site generator like Hugo which can generate a site from markdown content and offers community made themes/plugins etc: https://themes.gohugo.io/. Platforms like Wix etc are easy to get started with but you will be vendor-locked and limited to whatever features the platform supports.
 
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I currently use Hugo to build my static site. Once I update any post and push it to GitHub, CloudFlare picks it up and generates my website. It works great, though I don't really post anything there lol
 
Just go with wix or squarespace they are pretty good to get the job done. Don't go for other mentioned techy options and waste time in figuring things out.

Or just get a basic hosting plan from a local housing provider who has Indian contact and proper customer care.

btw there is no issue in having separate domain and hosting. It is even the recommended option to keep things separate.
 
It depends on how much coding you want to get into.
1. If you want a simple drag and drop experience, Go with something like Wix (beginner) or Webflow (advanced) or even Framer (beautiful templates). But they charge you for the user experince and most of the times it is worth it becuse you won't have to pay someone to design it.
2. If you do want a custom static website and can code it up yourself, hosting it can be really cheap (even free). Github Pages, Cloudflare Pages, Gitlab pages, Netlify and Vercel can host it and you will rarely cross the free tier.
3. If you want to have even more control, try using a VPS from digital ocean / linode / vultr which starts from 5$ per month. Make sure to select a location closer to your end users.
4. If it is for a business that has a lot of traffic, you can even host it on an S3 bucket and use cloudfront as a CDN, It will make your site really fast all across the world. But this is the most tech heavy option (but dtill cheap), and often not worth it unless you have millions of page views every day.
 
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