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Discussion on: Where Do You Host Your Websites?

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Galuh Utama

I recently saved over $100 from switching one of my static sites over to Netlify

I hope you meant annually and not monthly.

Ah yes. Netlify is the geocities of 2020.

Nowadays I rent my VMs either from DigitalOcean, Vultr or Hetzner Cloud. 2,5 bucks / month for a VM at Hetzner won’t break my bank.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

To my experience, it still depends on self-hosted software requirements, so not necessarily 2,5 bucks / month.

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Galuh Utama • Edited

I'm not sure what you meant with self-hosted software requirements.

For hosting static sites you literally only need a web server.

I have been renting VMs from various providers since 2006 and haven't paid extra costs for software, except when I need to separate database server from the web server.