[kwlug-disc] Free web storage for static HTML?

[Chris Frey]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 01:28:48AM -0400, William Park via kwlug-disc wrote:
>  * GitHub -- same thing.

Should work, along with other git repos.

>  * Put the files on USB stick, and plug it into router.  It has
>    web/file server.  I would have to register DDNS, though.
>  * Set up web server on a Linux computer.  But, I don't want to be
>    "tech support".

Both of these are self-hosting on your own home internet, if you're
trying to do it for "free".

There is very little tech support in running an apache2 or nginx web server
that serves up static HTML pages.  Basically it is: install it,
keep up with system updates, and forget it.

I'd recommend using a Linux box, so you can at least keep it up to date.

Alternate options:

	* get a shell on http://freeshell.org/
	* get a shell at https://www.thc.org/

A web search shows these options:

	https://pages.edgeone.ai/use-cases/free-html-hosting
	https://static.app/free-website-hosting
	https://tiiny.host/free-static-website-hosting/

There are also VPS cloud solutions out there.  Some offer minimal
resources for free.  I *think* Google cloud has a minimum free tier.
Oracle cloud, while their interface is confusing, offers a free
cloud VM (I have one myself).  And really, there are quite powerful
VM's available from places like digitalocean or OVH for around $5/mo.
OVH was recently advertising their new VPS line of 4vCores, 8G RAM,
75 G SSD disk, and 400 Mbps bandwidth for $6.80/mo Canadian.
That's a lot of machine.  You can probably find something smaller and
cheaper.  For serving static webpages, you only need 512M RAM, and 1 CPU.

- Chris