[amsat-bb] Recommendation for project website

[Bruce Perens]

You can definitely go with a service and have someone else manage
everything for you. I generally choose not to.

Amazon Lightsail will give you a pretty powerful virtual Linux server with
one equivalent dedicated CPU for $3.50 per month, with a better net
connection than you are going to get elsewhere (entertainingly, in net 44).
It was fine for all sorts of web services, and I had to go up to the $20 a
month one to run a compile server because the Crystal compiler is globally
optimized and had a whole gigabyte  working set . Although not all of their
free operating system images are up-to-date, you can update them yourself,
and from Amazon local mirrors that are really fast.

Lightsail is meant to be fast to deploy, you don't have to learn all of the
Amazon cloud APIs, just treat it as a Linux server.

Wasabi will provide you a gigabyte of online storage for $6 a month, which
can be formatted as a static website.

I generally front everything with Cloudflare, which except for their
embarrassing DNS outage the other day, has worked very well. Even at the
Free level.

WordPress takes a little work to self-host, but not very much at all. I run
Devuan or Debian and they generally take care of themselves. Just run the
updates once in awhile, and back them up.

Thanks

Bruce

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 11:09 AM Leffke, Zachary via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I was wondering if folks had any recommendations for website services for
> hosting simple project pages.  I do a lot of little side projects and
> occasionally folks ask for more details.  I tend to keep things scattered
> across multiple media (lots on github), and collecting up everything in a
> 'useful' way isn't very efficient.  I've considered making better use of
> github markdown, but I'm not sure thats the best way to go for all
> projects, particularly if I want to post a lot of images.
>
> Some examples of the types of 'project' sites that I like and am looking
> to start include the following:
> https://www.w6pql.com/
> http://www.w1ghz.org/
> https://destevez.net/
>
> Wordpress seems like it might be a good way to go.  For the moment I'm
> just looking for something simple where I can 'publish' projects a bit
> better than just posting code or KiCAD designs on github.  Eventually I
> might branch out to this new fangled social media stuff...but for the
> moment I just want to get the projects written up and posted.
>
> Any and all recommendations would be welcome.  I'm not opposed to pay
> sites (mainly to remove annoying ads from the page) as long as the
> interface is relatively simple and I like the look and feel of things.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Zach, KJ4QLP
>
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